Bullish Blog

AFP - Wall Street opens the month of June with guarded optimism, as hopes mount that the worst of the economic storm is over and that the peak has passed for surging crude oil prices.

AP - Wall Street closed out a winning week with a narrowly mixed performance Friday after the government reported that Americans' spending rose in April to keep pace with rising costs.

Reuters - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index pushed almost 1 percent higher on Friday as it rode the strength of resource issues, which benefited from firm commodity prices.

AFP - Blue chips closed lower, as a retreat in crude oil prices aided big fuel users like British Airways, but led to slumps in oil stocks, while there was little direction from Wall Street as stocks traded flat.

AP - Wall Street closed out a winning week with a narrowly mixed performance Friday after the government reported that Americans' spending rose in April to keep pace with rising costs.

AFP - Europe's main stocks markets advanced on Friday, after overnight gains in New York and earlier in Asia, as the oil-exposed airline sector benefited from falling crude prices, dealers said.

Reuters - U.S. technology shares rose on Friday as strong results from computer maker Dell Inc signaled that business and consumer spending was holding up, driving the Nasdaq to end the month up 4.6 percent.