The Market Seesaws

The following video is from Friday's Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill and analysts James Early and Ron Gross dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

After a two-day drop of more than 3%, the Dow index treaded water on Friday. In this installment of Investor Beat, James and Ron discuss the recent comments by Fed Chief Ben Bernanke, whether sanity has returned to Wall Street, and why investors can now find more value stocks. Also, a look at why shares of Ebix, Oracle, Spreadtrum Communications and Darden Restaurants made big moves today and why our analysts will be watching Veolia Environnement and PulteGroup very closely this week.

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