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The social network filed to sell shares on the stock market in what is on track to be the largest Internet initial public offering ever, potentially valuing it as high as $100 billion.

Germany's Deutsche Boerse says the European Commission is to block its planned merger with stock market operator NYSE Euronext.

Not many people realize that the stock market is oneA of the bestA predictors of theA outcome of a Presidential election.

The stock market kicked off the new year with a bang amid a spate of good news. But veteran traders weren't quite ready to say good times are back this quite year. 

Buckle your seatbelts. That's the message analysts have for investors in 2012. Although the S&P 500 is on pace to wrap up this year more or less flat, the stock market gyrated wildly over the last 12 months.

Companies that were granted stock options after the 2008 stock market collapse are benefiting from those awards too — in the form of tax savings.

With two weeks left in the trading year, the eurozone debt crisis will remain the primary impediment to pushing the S&P 500 index into positive territory for 2011.

The stock market rested Thursday after staging its biggest rally in two-and-a-half years the day before. Major indexes ended trading mixed.

The stock market was not exactly surprised that the so-called supercommittee failed to reach a deal to cut the federal deficit. But on Monday, investors sold big.

The stock market mostly recovered from investors’ fears about Europe’s debt crisis Monday. After trading lower for most of the day, the major indexes ended slightly higher.