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The market shutdown is a reminder that if human beings can't travel to Wall Street — the actual street, not the metaphor — the financial system can't function.
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Sure, derivatives are bets. But they're also tools for getting around the tax code, accounting rules, and lots of other regulations.
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The stock market fell sharply Tuesday morning. Disappointing earnings from DuPont and 3M led the rest of the Dow lower.
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Robert Griffo was working at an investment firm on Wall Street when the stock market crashed on Oct. 19, 1987. As his wealth slipped away, so did his hold on his life — and his family. Griffo ended up homeless and found himself contemplating suicide.
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The one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement brought rallies and arrests Monday, as protesters marched in New York and other cities. More than 100 arrests were reported in New York, where activists marched near the city's stock exchange.
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The race for ever-faster trades has "absolutely no social value," says a billionaire who helped bring computers to financial markets.
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Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks to Sean Gourley, physicist and founder of quid.com, about the computers that trade stock shares faster than human minds can comprehend.
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The company's stock price has also taken a beating, at one point losing 50 percent of its value.
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There was heavy volume as stocks began trading. It's thought that computer glitches may have been responsible.
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The company released its first earnings report as a publically traded company Thursday.