Earlier this week came an alert that a technical event was likely to be seen in the major money center…
Updated throughout the day. The CEOs of Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) are each expected to be rewarded…
With gold up over $1,000.00 per ounce and with many pundits looking for much higher prices into 2010 and beyond,…
It seems that employers refrained from as many firings the week before Christmas this year. The data from the Labor…
The link between the global economy and oil prices may have “de-coupled” in July 2008 as oil prices rose to…
Almost all the very large financial firms that got TARP money have repaid it with Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC)…
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president-for-life, has pushed major oil companies that would not pay tariffs to his government and give up…
Wall St. firms have cut the number of securities analysts they employ since the scandal of 2000 when some professional stock pickers…
Pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, has been fairly consistent in giving only bare-bones compensation to management at firms that have taken…
The Brookings Institution, The New York Times, and Bloomberg all covered the news that Texas added more people than any…
Reuters: Pay czar Feinberg approved compensation at several bailed out firms. Reuters: Oil moved above $77 as US crude stocks…
Markets in Asia were mostly higher with Hong Kong closed. The Nikkei rose 1.5% to 10,537. The Shanghai Composite was up 2.6% to…
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