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(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.24 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.1 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.34 percent. Yahoo Inc ( YHOO.O) will be in focus after the ...Read More

By Jim Finkle and Clare Baldwin BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp’s ( ORCL.O) quarterly software sales came in sharply below expectations, dashing hopes that corporate technology spending is rebounding and sending its shares down 2.7 percent. New license sales at the world’s No. 3 software maker fell ...Read More

(Reuters) - Stock futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.46 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.356 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.35 percent at 5:44 a.m. EDT. Tech shares will be in the spotlight after ...Read More

Gold bullion just crossed $1,000 an ounce. But what’s it really worth? Bud Conrad, chief economist at Casey Research and a leading gold bug, says it’s worth far more. Based on long-term analyses of macroeconomic trends such as the money supply, he says, “a lot of ratios… get ...Read More

By JOSEPH CHECKLER Bill Clinton famously said in 1992 that he still believes in a place called “hope,” but when it comes to picking stocks in 2009, Paradigm Value Fund portfolio manager Jason Ronovech thinks hope is overrated. “It’s a function of not buying on hope,” says Mr. ...Read More