While the U.S. market is threatening to set new 2008 lows, foreign markets that early this year were considered by some to be investment havens have served up far more painful losses.

While it has risen over the last few weeks, the VIX is nowhere near the highs reached during the January and March lows. The VIX typically pops when investors become fearful of their stock investments. Big...

The first chart below highlights an index that measures credit default risk for a number of investment grade corporate bonds in the US. As shown, default risk has dropped dramatically since the March lows in equity markets (red dot), ...

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Shares of investment banks mostly rose Thursday morning, as major mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc. said its operations are improving from lows seen earlier during the mortgage-market crisis. How shares of major ...

Continuing from previous search stats from Hitwise and Compete , comScore is now out with search engine share in the United States for March 2008. Similar to Hitwise, Google hits a new high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit new lows. But in terms of raw searches, Yahoo and Microsoft showed gains. Click to continue reading... ...

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