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In this Monday, March 3, 2014, file photo, specialist Gregg Maloney works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

The six highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Akamai , Fusion-IO , F5 Networks , and Juniper Networks .

Shares of the No. 1 U.S. public life insurer are the cheapest in its industry. It benefits from higher rates, a global franchise, and reduced risk.

BSE Sensex has, over the last four trading sessions, risen by 4.7 per cent following strong FII inflows amounting to over Rs 5,000 crore.

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Friday's stronger-than-expected payrolls report did more than ease concerns about U.S. economic fundamentals - it also seemed to justify Wall Street's record levels, suggesting the market's uptrend could continue.

U.S. job growth accelerated sharply in February despite the icy weather that gripped much of the nation, easing fears of an abrupt economic slowdown and keeping the Federal Reserve on track to continue reducing its monetary stimulus.

The Toronto stock market held onto a slight gain Friday as job creation data in the U.S. came in well above expectations.

It was a roller coaster session for the markets Friday. Wall Street stocks surged early on a positive jobs report, but faded by mid-session only to come off the day's lows by the closing bell.

A former investment banker has been convicted in Connecticut of defrauding investment funds, established as part of the government's response to the 2008 financial crisis.

Those concerns offset an encouraging pickup in hiring by U.S. employers last month.

World shares were at a six-year high and heading for a fifth week of back-to-back gains on Friday as the ongoing tug-of-war over Crimea and uncertainty ahead of US jobs data did little to sap market confidence.

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Chinese authorities allowed the country's first corporate bond default on Friday, inflicting losses on small investors in a painful step toward making its financial system more market-oriented.

World stock markets were muted Friday as investors turned cautious ahead of the release of a key U.S. employment report and Chinese economic indicators.

The euro jumped more than 1 cent against the dollar Thursday after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi continued to brush off the threat of deflation, decreasing the chance of further easing in the short term.

Citigroup Inc. shares are still struggling to keep up with the bank's peers, trading at a discount to tangible book value five years after the financial crisis.

Money is flowing once again into muni-bond mutual funds, a turnaround from last year's exodus.

A surging stock market and rebounding home prices boosted Americans' wealth to a record in the final three months of last year, though both trends have slowed so far in 2014.

The S&P 500 hit another record, despite the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq also were higher.