Wal-Mart, techs push market to all-time highs
Stocks gained, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting record highs on Thursday after Wal-Mart Stores Inc increased its profit outlook, lifting optimism about earnings.
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Monsanto's Grant, Crews adopt stock trading plan
Monsanto Co. said Friday that several of its executives, including Chairman, President and CEO Hugh Grant and Terry Crews, executive vice president and chief financial officer, adopted a prearranged stock-trading plan.
Waterhouse -- if it draws attention back to how cheap stock trading has become at the larger discounters in recent years Read more hereStandard & Poor's Lowers Nasdaq Rating
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday said it lowered its long-term counterparty credit rating and bank loan rating on electronic stock trading exchange Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. to speculative grade, citing its recent acquisitions.
