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Gold futures finished the year with a 10th consecutive annual gain amid expectations for new record highs next year.

Stock indexes were mixed Friday in quiet New Year's Eve trading....

Latest signs spur caution optimism. Stock market rising; Americans paying off debt.

This morning, General Motors (GM) saw a number of firms initiating coverage, all with positive ratings.

Dow Needs 23 Percent in 2011 to Set Record, Which Happened 6 Times Since 1985

Also lagging the market Wednesday are airlines shares, down on the day by about 1.2% as a group, led down by Pacer International ( PACR - news - people ) , trading lower by about 5.1% and Pinnacle Airlines ( PNCL - news - people ), trading lower by about 4.9%.

Akamai’s real-time ad targeting solution could well be an important growth driver in the future for the company given the growing importance of behavioral targeting technology in the context of web advertisement. Companies such as Amazon and Google currently use similar technologies to identify user behavior and then offer suggestions or products that might interest users.

Howard Stern is returning to Sirius XM Radio Inc, the shock jock reported on his website on Thursday, sending shares of the satellite radio company up 8 percent.

Short-term positives jockey with long-term concerns as Street opens with narrow gains.

Microsoft recently announced that it sold more than 2.5 million Kinect motion sensors for its Xbox 360 game console globally since it was launched on November 4, 2010.