Year: <span>2011</span>
Source: Flickr - Marshall AstorNew cities, towns, and villages are created each year in the United States. They’re not necessarily new settlements, and are more often areas within a county that...
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The press had two reactions to the low China PMI figures. Each was based on the experts interviewed.One school of thought is that the numbers were low, but not terribly so. This school says...
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Samsung had more market share of the US handset market than any other manufacturer in the three months which ended in November. The figure was 25.6% according to Comscore, up .3% from the previous...
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A letter regarding former Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd’s behavior which caused his dismissal was ordered to be released by a Delaware court (Reuters)The US sold Saudi Arabia 84 F-15...
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Add to the problems of unemployment that it will be harder for the jobless to shop at Sears and KMart. A list of 79 locations that will be shuttered by Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) was...
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Brent crude prices will average over $110 a barrel in 2011. Reuters reports that will beat the 2008 record of approximately $100. It is difficult to say how to take the news.The causes of high oil...
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China’s PMI, Slowing Economy The country’s PMI was below 50 again in December. A PMI above 50 is considered a mark of expansion. The China Purchasing Managers’ Index for this month was 48.7....
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Stocks opened higher this morning and settled in around noon with positive readings on all three major indexes. The Chicago PMI report was down slightly from a month ago, but better than expected....
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The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of change for 2012. There is a...
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Shares in semiconductor stocks have gained and lost value in about equal number during 2011. The run-up in share prices may be over for some and sustainable for others. For stocks that lost value...
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Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) went from Wall Street’s darling in 2011 to being Wall Street’s whipping boy. The company’s efforts under Reed Hastings could easily become the classic case study...
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