Mark Pare

The S&P 500 closed narrowly in the red Tuesday selling off after healthy overnight gains. The market has been strong in 2012 based largely on strong US economic data ignoring the still fragile situation in Europe. However the market got hit with a double dose of bad data this morning in the form of PMI and consumer confidence. After the close Amazon (AMZN) reported earnings beating EPS expectations but falling short on revenues. The stock is...  

The Markit CDX North America Investment Grade Index of credit-default swaps, which investors use to hedge against losses on corporate debt or to speculate on creditworthiness, increased 0.4 basis point to a mid-price of 95 basis points at 2:43 ...  

Rio Tinto, which reported a 6 percent fall in second-half profit after the market close, ended 0.2 percent lower, while BHP Billiton lost 1.6 percent and Fortescue shed 0.7 percent. Paladin Energy, a uranium miner, fell 1.9 percent while gold miner ...  

The Australian sharemarket pared some of its earlier losses to close slightly lower, after China's CPI hit 4.5 per cent, the highest inflation rate in three months. The latest round of Greek debt talks again failed to result in an agreement on austerity ...  

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices pared gains notched in Monday's European session that were a response to the lack of a political agreement in Greece to make reforms necessary to avoid default. Limiting gains, traders are preparing for the government's quarterly refunding auctions, which will include sales of 10-year notes and 30-year bonds . Yields on 10-year notes, which move inversely to prices, fell 1 basis point to 1.92...  

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market stocks fell, paring a fifth week of advances for the regional index, on concern earnings and economic growth is slowing. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index lost 0.1 percent to 1,042.62 as of 11:21 a.m. Mumbai ...  

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets pared gains Tuesday, after data from the Conference Board unexpectedly showed a fall in consumer confidence for January to 61.1 from 64.8 in December. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a reading of 68 for January on improving employment figures. The Stoxx 600 index was up 0.7% at 254.18, after trading as high as 255.67 earlier in the session. The British FTSE 100 index rose 0.3% to 5...  

Emerging-market stocks fell, paring a fifth week of advances for the regional index, on concern earnings and economic growth is slowing. Chinese industrial companies’ profits and a gauge of service industries expanded at a slower pace ...  

Still, despite the increase, the figure still held below the 400,000 mark and the underlying trend continued to point to improving employment conditions. Economists had forecast claims rising to 370,000, according to a Reuters survey. Meanwhile ...  

From the end boards, Francis Pare slipped a pass out front to Tomas Tatar, who buried the puck behind Jeremy Smith for his ninth goal of the season at the 9:36 mark. Pare's assist made him just the sixth player to record 90 helpers as a Griffin ...  

and Pare made no mistake in beating a sprawled Leggio up high. The Griffins extended that lead to two at the 15:16 mark. After Fabian Brunnstrom had his shot blocked, Brian Lashoff jumped on a failed clearing attempt by Rochester and fired a bullet to the ...  

Mark Voakes scored in the opening minutes of the third period ... The Griffins grabbed a 3-1 lead in the second period with goals from Francis Pare and Brian Lashoff. Zack Kassian halved the deficit for the Amerks with a goal just 1:11 after ...  

European governments are struggling to manage a fiscal crisis and U.S. growth will also be hampered by the need to pare debts, the Bank of Canada ... policy makers led by Governor Mark Carney, 46, said in a statement. “There is considerable ...  

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