Todays Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA Index, Nasdaq Index, S&P 500 Index Stock Market Investing News Today Approaching Close

Stock Market Investing News Today: Investors tuned in today to determine if the
DJIA, as well as the Nasdaq and S&P 500 could keep the trend-lines moving in a
positive direction. Prior to opening bell this morning, futures for the Dow
Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 were posting red and futures for the Nasdaq
were tracking lower as well. Stocks were set for the weaker opening this
morning. Although economic reports, especially in the jobs sector, have been
generally positive, the housing sector will be of focus this week. Investors
want to know if the sector will post data this week which implies a turn-around
point for housing in the U.S. Stock index trends took an upward turn after
opening bell after investors digested more positive news stemming from Apple.
Apple reported earlier today that it would pay quarterly dividends of $2.65 a
share. This news was on top of the positive share price and sales news that
posted at the end of last week for Apple. In other positive news, the Treasury
Department reported that it sold of mortgage backed securities which made
taxpayers a profit of $25 billion. The first of the housing sector data posted
today as well and was unremarkable. The Wells Fargo/NAHB builder sentiment index
posted at 28 which was generally anticipated. It seemed like a bit of a let-down
though as many were hoping for a higher reading. DJIA, Nasdaq, S&P 500 Index
Trends Approaching Close Today: As the opening session was wrapping up today,
the primary indices were posting green across the board. The DJIA was higher by
.14 percent at 12,251.77. The Nasdaq was higher by .72 percent at 3,077.65. The
S&P 500 was higher by .37 percent at 1,409.29 just minutes prior to closing bell
today. Frank Matto

Todays Gold Price Per Ounce Spot gold price per gram Spot silver price per ounce; Mid-Day Price of Gold Silver Today

Gold and Silver Price Trend Review and Current Contract Price News Today: Prior
to opening bell this morning, spot gold price and spot silver price trends were
moving in divergent directions. Although gold and silver contracts finished the
last full trading session of last week in the red,spot gold price was tracking
higher prior to opening bell this morning. Overall last week, gold futures lost
approximately 3.3 percent and silver futures lost approximately 4.8 percent. It
was a tough week for precious metal price. The dollar strength was generally
high last week, but did retreat during the latter half of the week. Gold and
silver ended lower anyway. Even though the two metals finished the week lower,
both still post price trend-lines that are moving positively according to year
to date change analysis. Gold is positive by about 5.7 percent and silver is
positive by about 16.8 percent. As the mid-day mark of todays trading session
arrived, gold and silver contracts were posting green. Mid-day Gold Price and
Silver Price Trends: April contract gold was higher by .68 percent at 1667 per
troy ounce and silver for March delivery posted a floor price at 32.60 per troy
ounce. Spot gold price per gram and spot silver price per ounce Mid-Day trends:
Spot gold per gram was trending higher at 53.47 and spot silver per ounce was
trending higher at 32.97 as pf the mid-day mark today. Camillo Zucari

Groupon Gets Into the Scheduling Biz

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Wanted! Bearish Gold Bulls

The ability of gold to provide a hedge and protection in a diversified portfolio
is still valid. Bulls are waiting for the precious metal to resume its climb

South African banks engaged to fund Liberia's first commercial gold mine

South African banks engaged to fund Liberias first commercial gold mine Creamer
Media's Mining Weekly - 1 hour ago JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - South
African banks are being engaged for the raising of $113-million to fund Liberias
first commercial gold mine.

Google Inc. Aims At Web Search Improvements

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) may be considering penalizing over-optimized websites
to improve the quality of results for customers. Google Inc. Aims At Web Search
Improvements Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s head of web spam Matt Cutts has said
that the company is planning to penalize websites which over-optimizes their
sites to gain better search results. The company will

Will the Fed Keep Its Pledge of Low Rate until 2014?

The FOMC pledged a couple of months back to keep the currently low interest
rates at least until late 2014. Will the Fed keep its pledge at all cost? What
might trigger the Fed to flip-flop on its pledge and raise the interest rate
before 2014? And finally what will this unlikely scenario do to the price of
gold?