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Advertisements [ ? ] Source: du STOCK MARKET WATCH, Thursday June 19, 2008 COUNTING THE DAYS DAYS REMAINING IN THE * REGIME 216 DAYS SINCE DEMOCRACY DIED (12/12/00) 2706 DAYS WHERE'S OSAMA BIN-LADEN? 2431 DAYS DAYS SINCE ENRON COLLAPSE = 2722 Number of Enron Execs in handcuffs = 19 ENRON EXECS CONVICTED = 10 Enron execs conveniently deceased = 3 ...

BY CHRIS PUPLAVA Resilient is the word to describe the U.S. economy over the past few years in its ability to shrug off rising oil prices, prices that few ever imagined would be reached this decade. Crude oil reached $60 a barrel and yet the economy rolled on, $80 a barrel and still no crushing blow was dealt. Now we have surpassed $100 a barrel and even $120 a barrel and the question is how ...

VIENNA, Austria - Oil prices were steady Thursday with investors following reports that a militant group attacked an oil installation in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer. Light, sweet crude for July delivery fell 33 cents to $136.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange by noon electronic trading in Europe The contract on Wednesday rose $2.67 to settle at $136.68 a barrel. ..... ...

08:30 Initial Claims 06/14 Briefing 370K Consensus 375K Prior 384K 10:00 Leading Indicators May Briefing 0.0% Consensus 0.0% Prior 0.1% 10:00 Philadelphia Fed Jun Briefing -10.0 Consensus -10.0 Prior -15.6 http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/ Econo...

WASHINGTON — Opening America's coastal waters to oil drilling, as Sen. John McCain urged in an address Tuesday, is unlikely to provide Americans with more oil for at least seven to 10 years. That's the estimate from the American Petroleum Institute, the oil-industry trade group. Major environmental groups think the increased supply would be at least that distant before arrival, and say it ...

Hola all ! Morgan Stanley Hit by Suspected Rogue Trader: FT By CNBC.com | 19 Jun 2008 | 04:20 AM ET Morgan Stanley will take a $120 million revenue hit after a suspected rogue trader incorrectly valued his positions in the credit derivatives market, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Morgan Stanley said it had discovered the error in May and alerted the UK stock market ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - When gas station manager Roger Randolph realized it was costing him money each time someone filled up with $4-a-gallon gas, he hung a sign on his pumps: "No more credit cards." He may be the first in West Virginia to ban plastic, but gas station operators nationwide are reporting similar woes as higher prices translate into higher credit card fees the managers must pay, ...

Forensic accounting is laborious and time consuming. So I expect the news of this will come at a trickle.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Ernesto Evangelista prefers to pump premium gas into his seven-month-old Nissan Titan, thinking it makes the truck run better. But at a BP station just a few blocks from the sand of Miami Beach, the 33-year-old painter grabbed the handle for the regular, 87-octane gas to fill his tank on a recent Friday. "Premium is just too expensive," he said. "Nobody can afford to fill up...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N) is postponing redesigning its SUVs and full-sized trucks as it shifts its product portfolio toward more fuel-efficient vehicles, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Thursday. GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson told the newspaper the car maker was "looking at the whole product portfolio," and deciding how to supply the U.S. market ...