Bullish Blog

AP - BAILOUT BLUES: U.S. stocks took their biggest slide so far this year on news that European countries that share the euro with Greece want it to make deeper spending cuts in exchange for bailout money. Stocks had risen just a day before on hopes the bailout was imminent.

AP - Stocks had their worst day of the year Friday after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical bailout. The S&P 500 index had its first down week of the year.

AP - Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.

AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:

AP - DEAL COSTS: NYSE Euronext on Friday said costs related to its collapsed merger with German stock market Deutsche Boerse shrank fourth-quarter net income.

Reuters - Money manager AllianceBernstein LP turned in another disappointing financial report on Friday, with fourth-quarter profit and revenue falling short of Wall Street expectations as clients continued to pull money out of its stock funds.

AP - Stocks had their worst day of the year Friday after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical bailout.

Reuters - The S&P 500 posted its biggest daily percentage decline thus far in 2012 on Friday after an about-face on Greece’s long-awaited debt deal ended a five-week streak of gains for equities.

Reuters - NYSE Euronext signaled it would shift focus to faster-growing areas like supplying computer systems and information from trading, as the U.S. exchange looks to an independent future following the collapse of a takeover by Deutsche Boerse.

AP - The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, after losing a bruising battle with European regulators over merging with a German exchange, says it will focus on expanding high-tech trading and adding services for its clients.