<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Market News</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/markets?nav=rss_business/markets</link><description>Market News</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks End Year With Post-Election Boost]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40099-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40099-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After languishing for much of the year, the stock market took off in November following a decisive end to the presidential election and closed out 2004 with solid gains.]]></description><author> Ben White and Bill Brubaker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy Industry Sell-Off Shapes the Day]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33759-2000Jun21.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33759-2000Jun21.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Usually when oil prices fall, Wall Street celebrates, but today oil prices fell so much they knocked down the stocks of oil companies and threw the entire market for a loss.]]></description><author> Jerry Knight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[S&P-500 Reaches Post-9/11 High Point]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44056-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44056-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stock market investors celebrated another drop in oil prices on Thursday, driving the broad Standard & Poor's 500-stock index to its highest point since Sept. 11, 2001, and pushing the blue chip Dow Jones industrial average back into positive territory for the year.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Finish Strong On Election, Earnings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29596-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29596-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Money flooded back into stocks this week as investors embraced a swift end to the presidential election, strong corporate earnings and good economic news.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush, Retailers Drop in Oil Prices Give Markets Boost]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26582-2004Nov4.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26582-2004Nov4.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wall Street continued its post-election rally Thursday as oil prices dropped by more than $2 a barrel and President Bush outlined plans for a second term.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets Rally]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23614-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23614-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stocks staged a modest rally Wednesday as Wall Street embraced President Bush's reelection and cheered the absence of a prolonged legal fight for the White House.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sox Are Up? Sell!]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55599-2004Oct22.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55599-2004Oct22.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Think you've got a bead on who will win the World Series that begins tonight between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals? Prepared to put your money where your mouth is?<BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Begin Quarter With Solid Gains]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1441-2004Oct1.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1441-2004Oct1.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK, Oct. 1 -- Stocks kicked off the fourth quarter with a solid rally on Friday as investors bet the market would shake off continued uncertainty about the election, the war in Iraq and high energy prices to stage its traditional fourth-quarter surge.]]></description><author> Ben White  and Griff Witte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall Street Looks to Voters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57522-2004Sep2.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57522-2004Sep2.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The stock market went whisper quiet this week as Republicans convened in Madison Square Garden to renominate George W. Bush for president.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Wall Street, Business as Usual]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33996-2004Aug2.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33996-2004Aug2.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wall Street firms had tighter security but opened as usual Monday morning after  warnings were reported Sunday of a possible al Qaeda strike against targets in the financial industry.]]></description><author> Ben White and Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Wall Street, Business as Usual]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32900-2004Aug1.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32900-2004Aug1.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wall Street firms on Sunday began increasing already tight security but planned to open as usual this morning after warnings of a possible  al Qaeda strike against targets in the financial industry.]]></description><author> Ben White and Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dow Drops Below 10,000]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9539-2004Jul23.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9539-2004Jul23.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Dow Jones industrial average plunged past the dreaded 10,000 mark today after four of the most famous names in American business turned in disappointing performances for the second quarter.]]></description><author> Jerry Knight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Finish Short Week on High Note]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32701-2004Jun10.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32701-2004Jun10.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wall Street finished a short week on a high note Thursday as slight improvements in the geopolitical environment and continued solid economic signals helped extend a market rally into its third week.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Finish Day Flat But Post Weekly Gains]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19998-2003Nov28.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19998-2003Nov28.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stocks finished little changed Friday in very light post-Thanksgiving trading, as the market struggled to find direction in an absence of economic news.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Fall On Signs of Economic Weakness]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25283-2003Sep30.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25283-2003Sep30.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Prices tumbled Tuesday after economic data indicated that consumers remain anxious about future job growth and a report showed a slump in manufacturing.]]></description><author> Jackie Spinner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running With the Bulls]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26780-2003Jun6.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid 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Knight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets Rebound, but Volatility Still a Worry]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59965-2002Jul24.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59965-2002Jul24.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The biggest one-day rally in nearly 15 years came as Congress moved toward corporate reform, fears of a banking crisis evaporated and many investors concluded it was time to buy.]]></description><author> Steven Pearlstein and Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dow Plunges Below 9000]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52241-2002Jul10.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52241-2002Jul10.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Shrugging off President Bush's attempt to restore confidence, investors dumped stocks again Wednesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down 3.1 percent and pushing the Nasdaq and S&P 500 indexes to five-year lows.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Not Stocks, Then What?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33699-2002Jul6.html?nav=rss_business/markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33699-2002Jul6.html?nav=rss_business/markets</guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:02:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While the best place for long-term investors to put their money remains a diversified stock portfolio, in these frightening times many investors are exploring alternatives, such as bonds, precious metals and real estate.]]></description><author> James K. 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