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Wall Street spent yet another session Thursday trying to make sense of what will happen next in the bond insurer crisis.

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Gold prices continued to skyrocket Thursday on the falling U.S. dollar, supply concerns and high world-wide demand.

Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is within striking distance of setting an all-time profit record - again.

Bond insurance giant MBIA Inc.'s reported results Thursday that transcend the cliched "Going from bad to worse." Perhaps the ungrammatical "Going from worse to worser" is called for.

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Ahead of Friday's January employment report, there is a lot of concern about the weakening job market, even as the unemployment rate stands at a relatively modest 5%.