business - "short"

Short term, there's no doubt that oil at $250 a barrel would be as traumatic a shock to the world's economic system as anything that has been thrown at it since the end of the Second World War. It wou...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Moody's Investors Service said late Thursday it cut the Aaa ratings of bond insurers Ambac Inc. and MBIA Inc. . Moody's downgraded Ambac's insurance financial strength rating to Aa3, and MBIA's insurance financial strength rating to A2.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Moody's Investors Service changed its rating outlook for MetroPCS Wireless Inc. to stable from developing, because of the passage of time from the September 2007 merger proposal from parent company MetroPCS Communications Inc. to Leap Wireless International Inc. . Moody's affirmed its existing ratings of MetroPCS, including its B2 corporate family rating and Ba3 rating on the senior secured facilities.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Playing with one of the awesome filters on SchaeffersResearch.com, I decided to check out some uptrending stocks with heavy short interest - a bullish implication from a contrarian standpoint...(Read More)

Forex day trading is very popular and is probably the route most new forex traders try and the appeal is obvious - trading with low risk and building steady long term gains but how do you win...

These are some stocks that have been tagged by users over at StockTickr: INGN: INTROGEN THERAPEUTICS INC Outlook: Short Industry: Drug Related Products New low on 36.35 times average volume: 2,035,531 vs. 56,000 (tags: short, New Low on Huge Volume) LMNX: LUMINEX CORPORATION Outlook: Long Industry: Medical Instruments Supls New high on 4.68 times average volume: 1,323,724 vs. 283,117 (tags: long, New High on Huge [...]

MUMBAI: The rupee is short of the crucial 43 level by four paise as the local currency lost eight paise at 42.9650/9750 against the greenback on Thursday amid a fall in stock market for the second ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Retailer Pier 1 Imports Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first quarter loss narrowed but the company still fell short of wall street analysts' estimates due to slower sales and traffic in March and April.

Corporates are betting on interest rates coming down in the future by borrowing short-term through the commercial paper route at higher rates.

Morgan Stanley yesterday became the latest financial services group to fall victim to a rogue trader as it admitted that it had suspended a credit trader in London for trying to hide losses of about $120 million ($£61.3 million).America’s second-biggest securities firm said that the Financial Services Authority was conducting a full investigation into the conduct of an unnamed employee - understood to be London-based Matt Piper – after Morgan Stanley discovered in May what it called a “$120 million negative adjustment to marks previously taken in a trader$’s book that did not comply with the firm’s policies”.The markdown is thought to relate to short-term trading in credit index options that may date back as far as last year. The trades are believed be in CDX indices, complex derivatives used to hedge risk on credit investments such as bonds. Morgan Stanley declined to comment on the identity of the rogue tr