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Advertisements [ ? ] Source: du STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday April 21, 2008 COUNTING THE DAYS DAYS REMAINING IN THE * REGIME 275 DAYS SINCE DEMOCRACY DIED (12/12/00) 2647 DAYS WHERE'S OSAMA BIN-LADEN? 2372 DAYS DAYS SINCE ENRON COLLAPSE = 2663 Number of Enron Execs in handcuffs = 19 ENRON EXECS CONVICTED = 10 Enron execs conveniently deceased = 3 ...

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BANGKOK, Thailand - Oil prices spiked to a record $117.40 a barrel after a Japanese oil tanker was attacked in Middle Eastern waters, off the east coast of Yemen. The 150,000-ton tanker Takayama was attacked about 270 miles off the Yemen coast in the Gulf of Aden while it was heading for Saudi Arabia, its Japanese operator, Nippon Yusen K.K., said in a statement posted on its Web site. None ...

ROME (AFP) - Oil prices, which surged to record 117.40 dollars a barrel on Monday, are unlikely to fall back below 90 dollars, the Venezuelan energy minister Rafael Ramirez said here. "We believe that prices will remain around this level, at least around 90 dollars," Ramirez told reporters on the sidelines of the International Energy Forum here. "Oil prices can't fall" much further because "...

LONDON - The Bank of England on Monday announced a $100 billion plan to allow banks to swap mortgage-backed securities for Treasury bills. The bank's aim is to unblock the interbank lending market, by giving banks assets they can use to operate, in hopes they will then resume lending more — and support the housing market and the overall British economy. Banks have become increasingly reluctant...

NEW YORK - The stock market has reacted well to the recent stream of glum earnings. But this week, Wall Street faces an even bigger flood of first-quarter results, and as General Electric Co.'s bleak report earlier this month showed, bad earnings can even hurt a stock market with low expectations. Out of the 30 components that make up the Dow Jones industrial average, Bank of America Corp., ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. drivers are paying record prices to fill their gas tanks and they could see prices surge as much as 30 cents more per gallon over the next few weeks, according to an industry analyst. U.S. average retail gasoline prices hit a record $3.4737 per gallon on April 18, up 15.66 cents from the April 4 average, according to the nationwide Lundberg survey of about 7,000 gas ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc, Merrill Lynch & Co and Wachovia Corp this week announced 12,400 job cuts, and the number of pink slips is likely to rise as losses mount and the economy works its way out of its malaise. So far this year, 36,000 job cuts have been announced in the U.S. financial services sector, according to job placement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. The ...