Bullish Blog

AP - How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15. Since Lehman’s fall, which touched off a paralysis of the credit markets and deepened the recession, the stock market has gone through an extended period of volatility before kicking into a big rally this spring. The numbers are the closing levels for the Dow:

Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s top inspector, Lori Richards, is leaving the agency after a year in which her office and the enforcement division was accused of failing to spot Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion fraud.

AP - Investors can’t shake their worries that the economy won’t be able to lock in a recovery by the end of the year. Stocks finished mostly lower after zigzagging for much of the day Wednesday. A mixed outlook on the economy from the International Monetary Fund and falling commodity prices added to the downbeat mood. On Tuesday, the major U.S. indexes lost at least 2 percent, on worries about the prospects for the economy.

AP - The official who has headed a key division at the Securities and Exchange Commission since its creation in 1995 is leaving the agency.

In a departure from the prevailing hands-off approach, regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are weighing new restrictions on traders in the commodity markets.

AFP - Wall Street finished narrowly mixed Wednesday with investors cautious about the economic outlook at the kickoff of the corporate earnings season.

AP - U.S. authorities on Wednesday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites in the United States and South Korea, although they warned it would be difficult to definitively identify the attackers quickly.

AFP - Stocks in London ended the session in the red Wednesday on falling house prices and corporate worries.

Reuters - The Dow and the Nasdaq eked out gains on Wednesday as a late-stage rally brought stocks off their lows on hopes that the quarterly earnings season would deliver good news.

AP - Investors can’t shake their worries that the economy won’t recover by the end of the year.