Market RoundupThursday, Sept. 2: Stocks advance again on surprising data. Pending home sales jump 5.2%. Initial jobless claims fall 6,000 to 472,000. Retailers post 3.3% sales gain in August. StocksGoogle targets Facebook with new game plan July 28, 2010 School stocks soar on proposed new rules July 23, 2010 iPad boosts Apple to record quarter July 20, 2010 Demand drives Intel to record quarter July 13, 2010 Alcoa beat estimates to kick off earnings season July 12, 2010 May 4, 2010 Express Scripts buys way to earnings surprise Feb. 25, 2010 Amazon gears up for iPad-Kindle battle Jan. 29, 2010 Apple iPad tablet takes on Kindle, netbooks Jan. 27, 2010 ETFsForbes: Time to build a better BRIC ETF? March 18, 2010 Turkey ETF hurt by plot, Greece Feb. 24, 2010 InvestingNasdaq exits correction territory June 3, 2010 Forbes: Buying monster stocks on pullbacks May 12, 2010 Top 50 Investing WebsitesBest of the Rest Brokers
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Follow us on MARKET ROUNDUP Stocks advance again on surprising data. Pending home sales jump 5.2%. Initial jobless claims fall 6,000 to 472,000. Retailers post 3.3% sales gain in August. STOCKS Google is turning to alliances with rapidly-growing social game developers like Zynga to help it fight Facebook. School stocks soar on proposed new rules For-profit education companies rose sharply after regulations had less bite than feared, but remain closer to 52-week lows than highs. Will Capella Education (CPLA) be the school stock to emerge? Company tops $15 billion in quarterly revenues as 3.3 million iPads are sold in first three months. Earnings jump 78%, sales up 61%. Chip giant flexes muscle in blowout performance, raises guidance. Dow component reports a penny better than expected; aluminum company CEO calls prospects "excellent." ETFs The three ETFs for the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — are lagging direct investments in the top ETFs for the four countries. Coolcat ETF Report Publisher Kevin Kennedy tells Forbes readers why it’s time to build a better BRIC.
INVESTING CoolcatReport.com Publisher Kevin Kennedy shows Forbes readers how patient investors can profit when superstar stocks take a little breather.
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