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Declining Capacity Undermines Economic Health and Recovery, the Return of Stagnation

Posted: June 14, 2013 at 10:00 am

When investors and the public hear about industrial production and capacity utilization, they might wonder what its place is when the United Stats has outsourced so much manufacturing and moved ...
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Foreclosures Up in May — RealtyTrac

Posted: June 13, 2013 at 5:06 am

Overall, data about the real estate markets continues to be ambiguous. RealtyTrac reports that in May foreclosure starts were up 2% from April. What is not clear is whether this ...
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Gallup Reports Decline in Payroll-to-Population Employment Rate

Posted: June 6, 2013 at 10:00 am

In a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll-to-population (P2P) employment rate fell from 44.5% ...
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European GDP Declines Slow in First Quarter

Posted: June 5, 2013 at 6:50 am

The recession in Europe got "less bad" in the first quarter of this year, if that is any comfort to the millions of people who are out of work and ...
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U.S. Foreclosure Sales Down 22% in First Quarter — RealtyTrac

Posted: May 30, 2013 at 5:26 am

In another of a long series of data that show that the housing market has healed, or even reached the point at which a new bubble has been created, RealtyTrac reported ...
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HP Company Earnings and Turnaround: Major Sales Decline Still Better Than Expected

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 4:17 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has so far managed to only get the ship ready for the big turn in its long turnaround. Now we have another company earnings report showing ...
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Walmart Stock Hit by Decline in International Earnings

Posted: May 16, 2013 at 7:45 am

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) reported first-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened this morning. The retailing giant posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.14 on revenues of $114.2 ...
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Home Foreclosures Drop, Mortgage Loan Delinquencies Rise in First Quarter

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 11:45 am

The delinquency rate for mortgage loans at the end of the first quarter of 2013 rose to a seasonally adjusted rate of 7.25%. That is 16 basis points higher than ...
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Foreclosure Rates Stay High in Nevada and Florida: RealtyTrac

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 6:20 am

While industry research group RealtyTrac reported foreclosure activity dropped to a 74-month low in April, the figures could not disguise the fact that in some cities and some states, such ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades and Stocks to Sell: CA Technologies, Comerica, ValueClick and More

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 8:40 am

Investors frequently get to see the analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall Street, but they often do not get to see when analyst downgrade stocks to when they say ...
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Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures Fell in March

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 10:00 am

The latest data from Lender Processing Services Inc. (NYSE: LPS) shows that the total U.S. mortgage loan delinquency rate has fallen from 6.8% in February to 6.59% in March, and ...
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Eurozone Manufacturing Activity Still in Decline

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 6:50 am

The Markit Eurozone Manufacturing PMI report did not have a single good thing in it. Not only did the region's activity contract, it also contracted in most of the eurozone's largest ...
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Home Foreclosure Decline Continues in March — CoreLogic

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 10:45 am

In the month of Martch, 55,000 U.S. homes were foreclosed, more than a revised total of 52,000 in February and down from 66,000 in March 2012, according to research firm ...
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IBM Corporate Earnings Face Revenue Decline, to Pressure DJIA

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 4:17 pm

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reported its corporate earnings for its first quarter. The report came to $3.00 in operating earnings per share and $23.4 billion in revenue. Thomson ...
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Natural Gas Inventory Declines Less Than Expected

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 10:45 am

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks declined by 14 billion cubic feet last week, less than the decline of 21 billion cubic feet ...
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