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Dow Jones Today Surges on Janet Yellen Comments

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Dow Jones today: At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 134.60 points to finish at 16,457.66. The Nasdaq increased 43.24 points to finish at 4,198.99, while the S&P 500 was up 14.72 points to finish at 1,872.34.

Here's a recap of other major events today.

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IEX Exchange Short-Circuits Wall Street's HFT Cheaters

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Chalk one up for the good guys.

The IEX exchange, a new stock platform that launched Oct. 25 of last year, was designed to negate the advantage that Wall Street's high-frequency traders have over everyone else.

are reacting in a most peculiar way...

Silver Prices Slip in 2014's Q1 but Consumer Demand Still Solid

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Spot silver prices rose $0.07, or 0.4%, to $19.86 an ounce midday Monday as precious metal traders and investors gear up for a busy week ahead.

Market participants remain guarded, with a spate of U.S. economic data flooding in as the week wears on. Capping the busy week will be Friday's closely watched March jobs report.

Meanwhile, Monday caps the end of 2014's first quarter.

So let's take a look at silver...

A Secret Gem Hidden Among 2014's Emerging Markets

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Emerging markets have experienced record outflows so far this year, as global capital sailed back to safer markets.

Just in the first five weeks of 2014, $18.6 billion fled emerging markets – a staggering number when compared to the $15.2 billion in emerging market outflows for the entirety of 2013.

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2014 IPO Calendar: GrubHub IPO Headlines This Week's Eight New Offerings

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This week's IPO calendar has eight companies making their public debut, and the GrubHub IPO will steal most of the headlines.

GrubHub plans to raise $148 million by offering 7 million shares at a range of $20 to $22. By meeting that total, GrubHub will have a valuation of $1.8 billion. GrubHub will hit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, April 3. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), and Allen & Co. are serving as the lead underwriters on the deal.

See these seven other IPOs that investors can get in on...

Dividend Stocks: Big Banks Boost Payouts, Plus a Dozen More Yield Increases

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Dividend stocks news:  The big dividend news last week came from the banking sector on the heels of the U.S. Federal Reserve's stress test.

The test is aimed at ensuring big banks can handle a steep slump like the 2008 financial crisis and continue operations without a government bailout. In total, 25 banks passed the central bank's test, while five failed.

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The 2014 IPO Market Is Frenzied, but Not a Bubble

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With the number of companies that have hit the IPO market in the last year, many are wondering if the market has become oversaturated. 

According to the IPO investment firm Renaissance Capital, 222 companies went public in 2013, raising a combined $54.9 billion. That made 2013 the biggest year for IPOs since the "dot-com" bubble of the early 2000s.

But before labeling the 2014 IPO market as a repeat of the dot-com era bubble, check out these statistics…

The numbers suggest otherwise...

What High-Frequency Traders Actually Do

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High-frequency trading is fundamentally based on how market participants (for this discussion I'm talking about stock markets) place their orders to buy and sell shares and how HFT players act on those orders.

For every stock that's traded there is always (or at least it used to be "always") a "bid" and an "ask" price. Sometimes you'll hear the term "offer" or "offered" price, those terms are interchangeable with the term "ask" or "asking price."

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Today's Stock Market News: Obamacare Deadline Arrives

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Today's stock market news, March 31, 2014: The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 58.8 points on Friday to finish at 16,323.0. The Nasdaq increased 4.5 points to finish at 4,155.7, while the S&P 500 rose 8.5 points to close at 1,857.6.

Monday kicks off a busy week of economic data on the global economy. Multiple central banks will hold April policy meetings while U.S. investors will find out whether or not the winter weather has hindered job growth across the nation.

Here are the other stories moving markets today:

Profit from the Huge Price Surge... That You've Created

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It's been five months since we last checked in on palladium, the precious metal so critical to the consumer electronics we use hundreds of times a day.

At the time I said I was bullish for a number of market reasons.

As it turns out, there were even more…

Now it's time for another close look, since the bullish forces are only picking up speed.

What's more, some new ones have materialized, pointing to a massively profitable palladium spike…