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CNNMoney: Wanted: Duller times for stocks

Financial excitement has been in ample supply for ages. The second quarter of 2009 was no exception. Investors should hope that the dramatic rise in most of the world's stock markets in the period -- 15% or so in Europe and the U.S., almost 20% in Japan and more than 50% in some emerging markets -- marks the end of the thrills.

CNNMoney: Oil ends above $70 - 1st time in 7 months

Oil prices settled above $70 a barrel Tuesday for the first time in seven months, as the dollar fell and expectations grew that the economy is headed for recovery.

CNNMoney: Don't run with the bulls quite yet

All of a sudden, it's a bull market. The Dow Jones Industrial Index has risen by 21% since March 9, just crossing the traditional 20% threshold that some chart-watchers use to separate a mere rally from the real thing, But this three-week old may not live to a ripe age.

Fortune: AIG finally names names

AIG gave in to demands from Congress Sunday, naming the banks that pocketed billions of dollars last fall as part of a federal bailout of the troubled insurer.

Time.com: European Markets Rise amid Rate Cut Hopes

Europe's stock markets opened modestly higher after solid gains in Asia and amid mounting expectations that the European Central Bank and the Bank of England will aggressively cut borrowing costs

Time.com: European Markets Tumble After Asian Slide

European markets tumbled in early trading amid ongoing fears about the state of credit markets despite the British government's $87.5 billion rescue package for the banking system

Fortune: Embattled Soc Gen CEO steps down

Daniel Bouton will step down as chief executive of Société Générale in May, although he'll stay on as chairman, the French bank announced Thursday. Bouton, 58, is taking the fall for the bank's failings in the rogue trading affair involving Jérôme Kerviel, a junior stock arbitrager who ultimately cost the bank $7.5 billion in net losses.

Fortune: Saving Société Générale

In the early afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 20, Daniel Bouton, the chairman and chief executive of the huge French bank Société Générale, was in his 35th-floor office preparing for a board meeting that evening when one of his lieutenants, Jean-Pierre Mustier, came to break some calamitous news. Mustier, Société Générale's head of investment banking, had already alerted him about a 31-year-old junior trader in the stock arbitrage department named Jérôme Kerviel who had been caught making big unhedged bets on European stock futures.

Bosses 'condoned' SocGen trader

A lawyer for the French trader accused of massive fraud at Societe Generale said bank bosses "condoned" his client's trades, contradicting bank statements that the trader acted on his own.

Fortune: Clarification

The individual pictured on the cover of the February 18, 2008 issue of FORTUNE magazine and his employer have no connection to Societe Generale, and Fortune did not mean to imply any connection, or to comment in any way on his or his employer's professional abilities.

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