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Consumer Sentiment Rises on Jobs Outlook, Lower Gasoline Prices

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 12:07 pm

The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer survey for May is out and the index of consumer sentiment rose to 79.3, up from 76.4 in April and 74.3 in May 2011. Economists ...
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Natural Gas Inventories Rise, Price Falls

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 11:33 am

The US Energy Information Administration today reported the US natural gas stocks rose by a total of 77 billion cubic feet, in line with a 75-79 billion cubic feet increase ...
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US Carbon Emissions Falling on Natural Gas Boom

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 7:35 am

The rise in US natural gas production from shale has cut the use of coal as a power generation fuel by about 20%. Natural gas, which emits about half the ...
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US Crude Oil Inventories Rise Slightly, Gasoline Prices Continue Sliding

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 2:29 pm

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. US commercial crude inventories increased by 900,000 barrels last week, bringing the total US commercial crude ...
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Retailer Earnings Up Most in Two Years (WMT, DKS, HIBB, BBBY, WSM, BWS, FL, BBY, GME, WTSLA, GPS, ANF)

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 7:36 am

With 80% of the 120 companies it tracks having reported first quarter 2012 results, research firm Retail Metrics says that retailers who beat earnings estimates are up 5% year-over-year for ...
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Work Hard and Strike Oil

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 1:46 pm

Research firm IHS Global Insight reports new data showing that four states -- Alaska, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Texas -- have or will soon post unemployment rates equal to or ...
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Existing Home Sales, Prices Up

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 12:11 pm

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) issued its monthly report on existing home sales for April this morning, and the news was about what was expected. Sales rose 3.4% in ...
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World’s Top Brands Led By Apple, IBM, Google

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 8:04 am

You may or may not have heard of Millward Brown, but you might not be surprised who they ranked as the world's top brand: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) took the ...
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Europe Could Crush Global Recovery — OECD

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 5:23 am

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s perception of the effects that Europe’s economic problems could have on global gross domestic product have caught up with everyone else’s. The organization ...
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Manufacturers Return to the US (GE, CAT)

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 1:11 pm

Until now, the evidence that manufacturing is moving back to the US from offshore -- a process sometimes called ‘re-shoring’ -- has been largely anecdotal. Manufacturing jobs have been growing ...
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Saudis Reclaim Top Ranking for Oil Production, US Number 3

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 7:31 am

For the past six years, the country that has produced the most oil (and liquids) has been Russia. Saudi Arabia has been second, until this past March according to data ...
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Google’s YouTube: The One Horse Race In Online Video

Posted: May 19, 2012 at 11:26 am

The argument that Hulu can become a company which can be valued in the billions of dollars or that portals can completely change, for the positive, the value of ad dollars ...
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State-by-state Unemployment Rates Don’t Change Much in April

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 12:36 pm

The three states with the highest unemployment rates in April were Nevada (11.7%), Rhode Island (11.2%), and California (10.9%). The three states with the lowest rates were North Dakota (3%), ...
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Gallup Sees Unemployment Down Slightly in May

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 2:02 pm

According to its latest survey, Gallup reports that the unadjusteUS unemployment rate fell from 8.3% in April to 8.2% in mid-May. The research firm’ mid-month survey on unemployment has tracked ...
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Fixed-rate Mortgages Continue to Post New Lows

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 11:04 am

The interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to an all-time low of 3.79% last week according to Freddie Mac. The previous record low was 3.83% set in last ...
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