American Axle & Manufacturing shares ride a Barclays Capital upgrade to a 24% gain on Friday -- just another ho-hum rally in a sector that has been scorching hot this year.

Lower interest rates on auto loans, improving consumer confidence and a scrappage plan likely coming this fall should help revive car sales and boost a group of stocks that has run out of gas in recent sessions, a Goldman Sachs analyst says.

U.S. stock index futures were mixed in choppy trading Thursday, pointing to a flat start for Wall Street as investors weigh the ramifications of the Obama administration's planned overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system.

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The Federal Reserve has taken interest rates to 0. They've clearly started a program of quantitative easing but what exactly does that mean? Is the Fed pushing on a string as Japan has done for almost two decades? The quick answer is no but that doesn't tell us much. We may not be in for a 2-decade-long Japanese malaise but we'll experience a whole new set of circumstances. In what will hopefully be a shorter holiday version of the e-letter I'll tackle these questions and more. I Meant to Do That In my house when someone stumbles or makes ...

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