China and U.S. GDP and the Price of Gas
ThinkstockThe price of gasoline in China has been one way the central government has regulated the effects of fuel on both businesses and individuals. In theory, this sort of system can keep increases in…
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Newest first · Page 339Houston Leads Top Five Cities in Job Creation, as Riverside, Calif., Lags
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsAll job creation is local, which makes national unemployment numbers flawed as a measure overall economic activity. Nothing shows this better than recent data on job creation by city, although…
Cadillac Quality Problems
courtesy of General MotorsThe Wall Street Journal ran an article in which executives from General Motors Co.’s (NYSE: GM) Cadillac boasted that their sales in the United State would pick up enough to take…
Media Digest (3/27/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT
courtesy of NetflixA Fed study says China growth will slow in 2030. (Reuters) Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) may cuts its cash position to $35 billion to redeem expensive debt. (Reuters) Battery problems with the…
Eagle Ford Shale Study Sees $89 Billion Future Annual Impact
thinkstockIt would be the understatement of the year or the decade to simply say that the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas region is making people rich. In fact, it is fairly easy to…
Market Close: Big Winners & Losers for March 26, 2013 (LEDS, BVX, PTEK, OPXA, LOGM, ZIOP, STXS, GMAN, GMXR, PRTS)
thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: SemiLEDS Corp. (NASDAQ: LEDS) is up 26.6% at $1.62. Bovie Medical Corp. (NYSEMKT: BVX) is up 26.5% at $3.53. PokerTek Inc (NASDAQ: PTEK) is up…
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — March 26, 2013: Markets Push Equities Higher Today (BTU, AAPL, FIO, CAT, EA, FMCN, SONC, PRTS, MFRM, SAI, ZIOP, HPQ, DELL, AMX)
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and a spate of decent news on U.S. housing kept markets in the green all day. The S&P 500 index finished the day’s session within sight of…
Dollar General Now Investment Grade
ThinkstockDollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is becoming less and less leveraged and is getting further and further away from its old private equity umbrella. Oh, and now it is considered “Investment Grade” at Moody’s…
No Surprise: Cyprus Debt Ratings Under Review
thinkstockFitch Ratings has put Cyprus’s long-term foreign debt on a ratings watch with a possible negative outcome. The ratings agency has also capped its ratings on the ratings of all debt issuers and transactions…
After Germany Cuts GDP Forecast, Unemployment Rises in France
ThinkstockPresident Francois Hollande is having a rough time of living up to his labor promises if you read into the unemployment rate in France. The jobless rate rose for what is now going on…
Picking Winners in Streaming Media (INTC, AAPL, GOOG, NFLX, AMZN, P, MSFT, SNE, DIS, CBS, CMCSA, VZ, CSTR, TWX, VIAB, NWSA)
ThinkstockThis might be one of those times that’s it difficult to tell the players even with a scorecard. The battle for control of the living room is about to be joined in earnest as…
Very Poor Treasury Auction Surprise
Normally we would not care so much about a 2-year Treasury Note offering. When you consider that the rate is a massively high 0.25% or so (can you smell the enthusiasm?), it is a…
LDK Solar Raises More Capital
thinkstockLDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) remains a very challenged company. This is to the point that the Chinese solar players is raising cash yet again in an amount that is small enough that you might…
Hess Activist Efforts by Elliott Heating Up
ThinkstockWe cannot help but to notice just how active the activist investor community has been. Activist investors are literally influencing hundreds of billions of dollars of value in companies right now. The latest acceleration…
Where Has Consumer Confidence Gone?
ThinkstockToday’s report from the Conference Board on consumer confidence was disappointing, to say the least. As we noted, it may not be a shock to many observers, but consumer confidence is turning south at…