http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/peter_a._mckayArticles by PETER A. MCKAY, aggregated by daylife.comen-usTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:10:08 GMTTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:10:08 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/b3FF1SUWu_4/The currency markets on Friday are giving new meaning to the term “almighty dollar.” The greenback is enjoying a bustling rally despite a dismal U.S. employment report showing that the country’s payrolls shed 2.6 million workers last year, the most ...Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:55:11 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/b3FF1SUWu_4/Federal Reservehttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/NBGfCJRxCqs/WSJ.com’s inside look at the markets This post was written by Geoffrey Rogow, Rob Curran, and Peter A. McKay. Are investors becoming inured to big job losses in the U.S.? With a much-anticipated employment report on the way, the stock market has ...Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:08:24 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/NBGfCJRxCqs/Wall Street JournalDow JonesDeutsche BankDigghttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/q4GPd8D97n0/A little more than a year ago, regulators eliminated some of the stock market’s circuit breakers, or index-based threshholds to trigger trading pauses. And now that the market is actually in an October plunge, the ones that remain look less potent ...Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:49:09 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/q4GPd8D97n0/Securities and Exchange Commissionhttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/363874808/Even after its summer swoon, oil is still expensive by every medium- or long-term measure, posing a threat to the broader economy. The trading of both energy and consumer stocks seems to reflect this. Crude futures have fallen more than 20% from their ...Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:06:30 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/363874808/BNP Paribashttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/342821528/Apparently, what’s good for Wall Street is too good for General Motors. In explaining its action, the SEC cited the potential that a toxic mix of false rumors and so-called “naked” short sales could wreck confidence in particular financial names and, ...Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:26:42 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/342821528/NYSEUS Airways GroupGeneral MotorsDeutsche BankThornburg Mortgage, Inc.http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/306256758/The rallies in oil and other energy products have been so furious that they’ve set off rarely used trading limits, or circuit breakers, designed to keep commodity markets from spiraling out of control. As a hybrid market with both a trading floor and ...Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:25:34 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/306256758/Ehud OlmertShaul MofazGeorge W. BushMahmoud AhmadinejadUnited Nationshttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/302985464/WSJ.com’s inside look at the markets Peter McKay has this report on manipulation in commodity markets. In January, the CFTC won its first verdict regarding attempted manipulation, in a case brought against natural-gas trader Anthony Dizona in ...Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:24:53 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/302985464/Facebook Inc.http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/300775449/Oil prices swung wildly Thursday, trading up more than $2 after the Energy Information Administration released data showing surprisingly large drawdowns in U.S. inventories of both crude and gasoline last week. The EIA noted, however, that there have ...Thu, 29 May 2008 21:28:13 GMThttp://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/marketbeat/feed/~3/300775449/Hexion Specialty ChemicalsMerrill Lynch