Economy - Thursday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Q2 prices rose 3.2% vs. a year ago, the slowest rise in a decade, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said. Price gains could turn into declines, as they have in other measures, and are taking a toll on broader economic growth. The S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index on Tue. showed Q2 home prices down 3.2% vs. a year earlier. OFHEO prices don&#39;t include homes with jumbo or subprime loans, two of the more vulnerable segments of the mortgage market. Weakness is expected to continue into &#39;08.
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Shares for Google slip for the first time since its public offering.  Also: FDA under fire for its slow Vioxx reaction & hellip;. Yahoo and SBC stay friends through new deal & hellip;. and more.
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Investor's Business Daily - One of the questions swirling around the global credit crisis is how it will impact private-equity deals, which ran at a record pace for much of the year.
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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual fund investors reached deeper into their pockets in October to step up buying of stock and bond funds, as the market rallied and the outlook for inflation improved.
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Plus: Lucent's 1st profitable year since 2000...EMC issues sunny report...IBM net income inches higher, despite legal bill.
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Investor's Business Daily - Higher input costs and a shortage of skilled workers tempered the latest survey by the National Association for Business Economics. The goods-producing sector was the least optimistic, with industrial and agricultural firms planning to continue cutting jobs. Still, overall activity, hiring and capital spending have rebounded from a weak Q1.
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Investor's Business Daily - When the U.S. began slowing last year some analysts began hoping for a trade-off.
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Investor's Business Daily - The barbarians aren't sitting on the fence anymore. They're making leveraged buyouts.
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Investor's Business Daily - Europe might be a good place to focus if you want to go global with exchange traded funds.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors got a friendly package from FedEx Wednesday: big quarterly results and higher forecasts.
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Investor's Business Daily - Recent data suggest the game is over in the Web-based social networking field, but that isn&#39;t stopping new new players from joining in.
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Investor's Business Daily - The National Assoc. of Realtors cut its &#39;07 outlook for the fourth consecutive month. Home resales will fall to 6.18 mil from last month&#39;s forecast of 6.29 mil and well below the initial 6.42 mil forecast. The median existing-home sales price will fall 1.3%, more than the previously forecast 1% slide. The median new-home price will fall 2.3% to $240,800, reversing the Jan. forecast for a 2% gain, NAR said.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s mortgage application index fell 3.4% to 643.7 in the week ended June 15, but was still up 13.2% compared with the same week last year. The purchase index slid 3% to 450.9 while the refinancing index fell 4.2% to 1,776.8.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Oct. crude shot up $1.68 to $79.91, an all-time high, after the gov&#39;t reported steeper-than-expected drawdowns in supplies. Those stocks fell 7.1 mil barrels last week, far more than the 2.4 mil barrels forecast. Heating oil surged 3.64 cents to $2.2191 a gallon, also a record. Analysts say heating oil supplies aren&#39;t as high as they should be this near to the winter season.
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Investor's Business Daily - IBM is ironing out some scheduling problems for the steel industry.
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Investor's Business Daily - Dollar bulls found little reason to be thankful Wednesday as traders headed out early for the holiday.
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Investor's Business Daily - John Chambers may lead one of the largest tech firms in the world -- networking gear maker Cisco Systems -- but the West Virginia native couldn&#39;t even keep up with classmates as an elementary student.