Business - Investing

NEW YORK - Investors may have to do some emotional juggling as the trading week begins. Full Story »

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Black Friday sales rose just 0.5 percent to $10.66 billion after rising 3 percent in 2008, ShopperTrak said on Saturday, a rise that may disappoint investors who had expected retailers to see a bigger boost this year. Full Story »

Looking to get alerts on your mobile phone when a stock hits a buy or sell point? And then quickly execute a trade with a few taps on your handset based on that data? "There's an app for that," says Apple's marketing campaign for the iPhone. Full Story »

The Grinch of a rotten economy isn't likely to stop the growth of cyber-retail this year. Full Story »

Mistakes? Yeah, we've all made a few in stocks. Consider them tuition you pay for your investing education. Full Story »

In 2007, Daniel Carroll launched kaChing, a Web site where members could match their stock-picking skills against others through virtual portfolios. Full Story »

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - ABN AMRO, Goldman Sachs and World Online misled investors during the 2000 initial public offering (IPO) of the Dutch Internet provider, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday. Full Story »

WARSAW (AFP) - Poland Friday said it had again failed to sell off two struggling shipyards, after receiving tenders for only a slice of what was on offer, three months after a deal with Qatari investors fell through. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Friday said it will make no changes for now to the ratings or outlooks of banks in the United Arab Emirates with exposure to the two Dubai entities whose debt problems have roiled global markets. Full Story »

MINNEAPOLIS - Airline shares fell with the broader market on Friday, even though airline investors got something that would usually count as good news — falling oil prices. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices tumbled nearly 5 percent to a one-week low below $1,140 an ounce on Friday as investors fearing debt default in Dubai sought safety in dollars and cash. Full Story »

BISMARCK, N.D. - A Fargo company is seeking investors for a plant in northwestern North Dakota that would make diesel fuel to help run drilling rigs in the state's oil patch, but one oil industry official said it might be a risky business. Full Story »

HONG KONG (AFP) - Jittery investors Friday dumped stock in the two foreign banks with the heaviest exposure to Dubai -- HSBC and Standard Chartered -- as ripples from a feared debt default spread worldwide. Full Story »

DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - World leaders expressed confidence in the global economic recovery on Friday despite fears about a debt default by Gulf emirate Dubai, while major banks played down their exposure to the debt. Full Story »

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - UK bank Lloyds' army of small investors grilled executives for over three hours on Thursday over secret central bank loans and mistakes made during the crisis, but agreed to back a record-breaking rights issue. Full Story »

PARIS (AFP) - European banks have 13 billion euros' worth of exposure to debt-laden Dubai, Swiss lender Credit Suisse estimated on Thursday after the Gulf state shocked investors by moving to suspend some repayments. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in banks, builders and companies part-owned in the Middle East fell around the world on Thursday and investors sought safety in government bonds on worries about Dubai's ability to pay its debts. Full Story »

DENVER - In a Nov. 24 story about Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC buying back auction rate securities from investors, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, reported erroneously how much the company was buying back. Full Story »