Microsoft's Yahoo bid gives Wall Street hope

Microsoft's Yahoo bid gives Wall Street hope
Gulf News - The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.73 per cent to 12,743.19 on Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 1.22 per cent at 1,395.42 and the Nasdaq Composite Index added 0.98 per cent to 2,413.36. For the week, the Dow rose 4.4 per cent and

U.S. Stocks Post Biggest Weekly Gain in Five Years (Update1)
Bloomberg - The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 4.4 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index increased 3.8 percent, boosted by Microsoft Corp.'s bid for Yahoo! Inc., owner of the most-visited U.S. Web site. The drop in interest rates to 3 percent