“Wall Street” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — A surprising jump in hiring sent bond prices lower and lifted the dollar Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial average edged higher for the third straight day of the new year. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed mixed Tuesday after enthusiasm over a deal to extend tax cuts faded. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rising in early trading on signs that consumers are spending more than expected this holiday season. (more)

“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” (2010). Oliver Stone, director. 20th Century Fox, 133 minutes.  (more)

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” That was the defining line of Oliver Stone’s 1987 film “Wall Street,” and his attack on the financial system that the news media would use for decades to portray businessmen as villains. (more)

Back in 1987, the movie “Wall Street” inspired a generation to enter the world of finance. But within that industry, attitudes toward the long-anticipated sequel are surprisingly subdued. (more)

Things are okay on Wall Street. But only okay. Since this summer, the recovery has slowed, and banks have noticed. The monster quarters they had in late 2009 and early 2010 aren’t expected to repeat later this year or in early 2011. While this might encourage some Main Street dwelling bank bashers to cheer with Wall Street on the ropes, they shouldn’t. The circumstances causing lower Wall Street profits are bad for Main Street as well. (more)

Sixth-grader Gabrielle McBay discovered she liked making sugar cookies from scratch at summer camp in Desoto, Texas. The following school year she filled Valentine’s Day orders for her classmates. (more)

President Obama used his Labor Day weekend radio address to defend his economic record and vow to “keep fighting” for the country’s middle class. (more)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Thursday after Wall Street’s best day in eight weeks as initial jobless claims showed a small decline last week. (more)

The stock market stinks and insured savings accounts pay zilch. US Treasury securities are safe, but you’d starve if you had to live off the interest. So what’s a guy to do? (more)

Stocks declined, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index sliding to a five-week low, as speculation the economy may slip into another recession offset investor optimism amid more than $1 trillion in takeovers this year. Two-year Treasury notes climbed, while oil fell for a fourth day. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression, adding safeguards for millions of consumers and aiming to restrain Wall Street excesses that could set off a new recession. (more)

Wall Street is notorious for not learning from its mistakes. Maybe machines can do better. (more)

Lawmakers closed in on a final Wall Street reform bill early Friday after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) agreed to a compromise with moderate House Democrats on her derivatives regulation bill – clearing the way for the broadest rewrite of the nation’s financial regulations since the Great Depression. (more)

Stocks seesawed throughout the session, shifting between optimism and pessimism on a variety of factors, including technical resistance at the S&P 200-day moving average, the euro’s weakness, and supportive labor market data. (more)

Democrats are planning to stake a big part of their midterm election pitch on “cracking down on Wall Street.” (more)

The federal homebuyer tax credit helped bolster sales across the country, but it doesn’t explain the rebound in New York’s tony Hamptons real estate market, where many would-be buyers have incomes too high to qualify for the credit. (more)

Securities and investment firms, commercial banks, insurers and others with a material stake in reform have spent over $286 million lobbying Congress since the financial reform debate began in earnest in the House of Representatives last summer. (more)

Sen. Richard Shelby, Alabama Republican and the ranking Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee, gave a final speech on the Senate floor Thursday in advance of the final vote to pass a financial regulation bill, which passed later in the evening. (more)