Mark Pare

• Dollar Lacks Conviction as Sentiment, Data and Testimony Pare Safe Haven Demand • Euro: Markets May not be Able to Ignore Greece’s Troubles for Much Longer • Japanese Yen Struggling to Maintain Fundamental and Risk Ties as Conditions Deteriorate  

MiamiHerald.comAmericans Pare Down DebtWall Street JournalMortgages and credit cards are harder to get, and the recession has engendered in many a new sense of frugality. In the latest Wall Street Journal ...Debt grows at slowest pace on recordMarketWatchHousehold worth up 5.4 percent, household debt down 1.7 percent, but ...newjerseynewsroom.comHouseholds recovering from economic freefallCNNMoney.comAtlantic Online (blog) -Financial Times...  

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock indexes on Thursday shed the bulk of their losses to tread on familiar ground. Consumer staples fell the most while technology shares led gains. "It's pretty quiet, once we got the weekly unemployment claims numbers, which were largely in line," said Owen Fitzpatrick, head of the U.S. equity group at Deutsche Bank. After a more than 50-point drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off about two points...  

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets ended mixed on Thursday, with several markets paring gains as resource stocks fell after Chinese economic data sparked fresh worries of further tightening meas...  

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices pared losses while the dollar stayed higher on Thursday after a report showed U.S. pending home sales fell 7.6% in January. Yields on 2-year notes , which move inversely to prices, rose 2 basis points to 0.84%. the dollar index , which measures the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, rose to 80.304, compared with 79.956 in late North American trading on Wednesday. The...  

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks pared gains Tuesday after Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig reiterated in a televised interview on the cable channel CNBC that the Federal Reserve should not guarantee zero-percent interest rates for an extended period. "We're going to have these days throughout the year, when investors get hit with the idea of eventual tightening," said Owen Fitzpatrick, head of U.S. equity group at...  

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices pared an earlier loss on Friday, though short-term yields remained higher, after a report showed U.S. real gross domestic product increased at a 5.9% seasonally adjusted annualized pace in the final three months of 2009, revised up from 5.7% estimated last month. Yields on 2-year notes stayed up by 3 basis point at 0.83%. Yields on 10-year notes , were little changed at 3.63%, after touching the...  

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Major U.S. stock indicators pared their gains after the Commerce Department said Wednesday morning that new-home sales fell more than 11% in January. The S 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up about 0.3% in recent action, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was up 0.5%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information...  

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures pared earlier gains on Wednesday after data showing the U.S. trade deficit widened to $40.2 billion in December from $36.4 billion the month before. Up about 18 points ahead of the report, futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 4 points at 10,008. Futures for the S 500 were off nearly 1 point at 1,065.4. Nasdaq 100 futures were down fractionally at 1,7511.75.Market Pulse Stories are...  

CBS NewsUS Stock Futures Pare Losses After Unemployment Rate DeclinesWall Street JournalAmong stocks in focus, Toyota Motor rose 1.2% in pre-market trading, after the company's president offered "his heartfelt apology" over braking systems ...Rally fails to hide US market gloomThe Press AssociationStocks tumble on job worriesCharlotteObserver.comStock futures mixed after unemployment reportBusinessWeekNewsday (subscription) -MarketWatch...  

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Emerging-market debt ended the week on a negative note, with concerns over Greece's debt woes and the prospect for interest-rate hikes keeping investors away from risky assets. Sovereign-debt concerns swirling around Greece and ...  

Equities across Latin America fell Wednesday but moved off session lows after the U.S. Federal Reserve said conditions in the world's largest economy are showing signs of improvement. In Sao Paulo, investors prepared for a decision about interest ...  

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks trimmed their earlier losses in afternoon trading Thursday, buoyed by gains in the financial sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently down 91 points at 10,145. Earlier it had sunk as low as 10,055. The S 500 was off 9 points, or 0.9%, at 1,088. Regional bank stocks including Regions Financial , Keycorp and Zions Bancorp powered the financial subsector briefly higher, moderating the...  

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices pared a decline on Monday, though yields still rose for the first time in four sessions, after a report said sales of existing homes dropped much more than forecast last month. Yields on 10-year notes rose 1 basis point to 3.62%, after being as high as 3.65% in morning trading. Also, traders are preparing for $118 billion in U.S debt sales and the latest policy statement from the central bank during...  

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares moved off their worst levels on Monday, helped by gains for banks and miners. Shares of lender Societe Generale rose 2.7% while shares of miner BHP Billiton climbed 1.2%. Also, Philips Electronics gained 5.6% after it swung to a quarterly profit. The U.K. FTSE 100 index rose 0.3% to 5,317.22, the French CAC-40 index traded flat at 3,821.51 while the German DAX index declined 0.3% to 5,676.39.Market...