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Bull market bust, GE reports and the secret to a successful fundraising campaign

Yahoo Finance

It's a rough day on Wall Street with all the major indices (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) sliding more than a percent. We'll tell you why!

And here are some of the other stories Yahoo Finance is keeping an eye on today.

Bull market bust?
A bit of a history lesson with today's Wall Street slide. A 20th century financial icon--perhaps Joe Kennedy, Senior-- is famously quoted as saying before the 1929 market crash it was time to sell when he saw a shoe-shine boy giving stock tips. As everyone and their brother has started offering stock tips again, could we be in for another big slide?

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GE's mixed bag
General Electric (GE) shares have been struggling hard to stay afloat as the Dow sinks today. The company providing Wall Street with some good news by beating earnings estimates.  But that profit figure didn't include about $16 billion dollars in charges it took to pay for pulling the plug on most of its financial services division.

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Secret to successful fundraising
Men will give money to pretty women! A new study published in Current Biology finds men will compete with each other to donate more to charities if the fundraiser is a good-looking woman.  The researchers say its subconscious...and yes...appears to have something to do with sex.

What to watch next week
It's Friday...time to look at some of the stories we'll be watching next week.
Andy Serwer --  First Apple (AAPL) Watch deliveries
Jen Rogers --  Greek debt deadline
Mike Santoli --  Earnings expectations

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