Dow Closes Above 12,000 Points For The First Time Since August

Thursday, October 27, 2011 Dow Closes Above 12,000 Points For The First Time Since August NEW YORK (Ryan Vlastelica) - Stocks surged 3 percent on Thursday as an agreement by European leaders to help contain the region's two-year debt crisis lifted a cloud hovering over markets. At Occupy Boston, Social Workers Address Mental Health Needs Madoff: Worst Part Of Prison Is Knowing My Family 'Hates Me' Most Millionaires Want Higher Taxes For Millionaires: Survey FTC: Debt Collectors Used Lies, Threats To Get People To Pay Up California Prison Nurse Triples Her Income Thanks To Overtime BLOG POSTS Janet Tavakoli: "Standard" Credit Default Swaps on Greece Are a Sham and It's Not a Surprise Anyone that bought sovereign credit protection on Greece after accepting ISDA "standard" documentation without modifying the language will now find that they are on the wrong side of an "arbitrage." Jared Bernstein: Some Nice Curves Masood Ahmed: Mideast Braces Itself for a Multi-Year Transition 2011 has not been an easy year for many countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The combination of domestic unrest and external uncertainty has resulted in a marked downturn in economic activity, and this is expected to pick up only gradually. Cindy Goodman: Is the Work-Life Conversation Going Anywhere? Today, the workplace goes wherever we go and parents, men and women are trying to juggle all our responsibilities. It can be challenging for men and women. Have employers come to see work life concerns as more than just "mommy" issues? Frank A. Weil: An Insider's View of Occupy Wall Street Credit Obama, Volcker and the sponsors of Dodd-Frank for setting out to rein in and correct much of the obvious Wall Street excesses, despite that they did it with kid gloves to avoid killing the whole octopus.

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