business - "market"

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp, facing a sinking U.S. market for trucks and SUVs, is expected to unveil steps on Tuesday to conserve cash and cut production of slower-selling models in a bid to shore up a faltering restructuring now in its third year, according to analysts.

Tuesday, June 03, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian crude palm oil futures inched higher on Monday as investors hesitated between betting on the overnight strength in US soy oil markets and selling on sl...

Job security may not be the first thing you think of when you're weighing your next career move but it's certainly a nice perk, especially in a job market like we have today.

The London market endured a turbulent start to the week today as bank shares came under pressure following a profits warning from lender Bradford & Bingley.The buy-to-let specialist's shares fell 24% ...

Never one to rest on its laurels, Fairmont is puttin' on the Gold like never before. The Fairmont Chicago, along with sister hotels the Fairmont Scottsdale and The Fairmont Dallas, has become the late...

The stock market has been in a wide range choppy move, and its been better for traders to have exposure to individual stocks instead of just the indexes...

Spiders June SP Emini Futures: I still think the market is headed for 1360...

Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson was pushed out as head of the nation's fourth-largest bank, becoming the latest executive to be ousted amid turmoil in the housing market.

How does this recession, and the stock market reaction to it, compare with previous slowdowns? From Citigroup (C), by way of Schroder Investment Management, the results of a study of nine recessions since 1953...Length of recession:Best case -- 126 trading daysAverage -- 216Worst case -- 337Trading days into recession that trough occurred (i.e. stocks hit bottom):Best case -- 30Average -- 108Worst case -- 261Decline in the equity market from peak to troughBest case -- -13.9%Average -- -25.6%Worst case -- -48.2%So what about this recession?We don't know for sure if it is a recession -- and recently many economists have gotten more optimistic that this is just a slowdown. But if it is, many agree the economy stepped on the brakes in December. So far, the market's trough was on March 10.By my calculation, from the beginning of December to March 10, there were 67 trading days. From its peak in October to March, the S&P 500 fell 17.9%.If the U.S. is or was in recession,

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI (MARKET WIRE) Ecology Coatings, Inc. (OTCBB: ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of ultra-violet curable, clean technology advanced materials, today announced that Sally Ramsey, the company's founder and Vice President of New Product Development, is speaking at the CTSI Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Conference being held June 1 - 5, 2008 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.