AP - Google Inc.'s stock will be added to the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a long-anticipated rite of passage that lifted the online search engine leader's recently sagging shares.

Reuters - Google Inc. will replace oil and gas producer Burlington Resources Inc. in the S&P 500 Index, S&P said on Thursday, sending the Internet search leader's shares up more than 7 percent.

AP - Google Inc.'s stock will be added to the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a long-anticipated rite of passage that gave the company's recently slumping shares an immediate boost.

Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter released on Thursday that nothing had emerged to undercut his year-old hypothesis that a "global saving glut" was a factor behind the large U.S. trade gap.

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AP - Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index opened lower Wednesday on selling in securities house and pharmaceutical issues. The dollar slipped against the yen and euro.

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter New York, New York (AHN) - U.S. stocks ends lower as investors realize that there is no end in sight for the current cycle of interest-rate increases. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 39.06 points to 11,235.47. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 19.88...

Reuters - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower market opening on Tuesday after an upbeat speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave markets no reason to expect a pause in global interest rate hikes.

Investor's Business Daily - Vanguard Group's Vipers differ a bit from other exchange traded funds: Each of its 23 ETFs acts as a separate share class of a mutual fund.

Reuters - as evidence by a low body mass index (BMI) -- before pregnancy raises the risk of pre-term birth in black and Hispanic women to a greater extent than in white women, new research shows. Being underweight also increases the risk of vaginal inflammation in black women.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - U.S. stocks end mixed on Monday, as investors act hesitantly ahead of a speech Monday night by new Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 13 points to finish at 11,267, and the S and P 500 Index drops...

Reuters - A key gauge of U.S. economic activity fell 0.2 percent in February, the New York-based Conference Board said on Monday in a report that suggested the economy may begin slowing later in the year.

AP - Japanese stocks rose Monday, lifted by upbeat earnings forecasts from a string of Japanese companies. The dollar rose against the yen.

AP - Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.

AP - London's benchmark stock index broke through the 6,000 barrier Friday for the first time in five years, spurred on by strong commodity prices and a burst of merger and acquisition activity.

Reuters - The University of Michigan's preliminary reading of its March index of consumer sentiment was unchanged at 86.7 from February's final reading, according to a report released on Friday and seen by market sources.

The FTSE 100, London's premier stock market index, rises above 6,000 for the first time in five years.

AP - Japanese stocks rose in early trading Friday, rebounding from the previous day's decline in a broad-based rally. The dollar was higher against the yen and euro.

AP - Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Sean Burke will sit out this weekend after fracturing his right index finger during practice Thursday.

AP - Bullish data on inflation and the housing market sent stocks mostly higher Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrials and Standard & Poor's 500 index posting nearly five-year highs for the third straight session. A jump in oil prices moderated the gains, however, and the Nasdaq composite index finished lower.