Bullish Blog

Reuters - Stocks fell on Monday, but the market managed to make a modest advance in 2007 after gains in energy and technology offset the dramatic sell-off in financials from the mortgage market meltdown.

Reuters - Stock index futures rose on Monday in the final trading session of the year with little on the corporate agenda and ahead of existing home sales data.

FT.com - London equities fell at the start of the the last session of 2007 in very light trading volumes, with resource stocks exerting pressure on the blue-chip index at the end of a turbulent year.

Did you abandon the roiling stock market for the security of a money market fund? Gulp -- the mortgage mess has probably put your investments there at risk, too.

AP - As 2007 comes to a close, Wall Street is almost as jittery as it was over the summer, when worries about the housing slump and banks' losing bets on mortgages first came to a head.

Reuters - Pakistani shares slumped on Monday and the currency hit a six-year low, the first market reaction to the killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto whose death has plunged the country into a violent political crisis.

FT.com - With four FTSE 100 chairmanships under his belt, Sir Christopher Hogg knows more than most about how the boards of British companies - but even he is nonplussed to learn that the number of executive directors has plummeted over the past five years.

FT.com - Britain's largest listed companies have sharply reduced the number of senior managers on their boards in the past five years, with non-executive directors now outnumbering executive directors in the FTSE 100 by more than two to one.

AP - As 2007 comes to a close, Wall Street is almost as jittery as it was over the summer, when worries about the housing slump and banks' losing bets on mortgages first came to a head.

Reuters - Wall Street is set to end 2007 with modest gains this week and kick off the new year with all eyes trained on jobs data for signs of recession that could make 2008 a hostile environment for stocks.