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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has issued its latest Beige Book, summarizing the comments received from businesses and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve. While investors flock to this as Fed outlooks, the Fed does note…
Lunch Bill With Warren Buffett Now Above $600,000
White House Photo by Pete SouzaEarlier this week we noted how Warren Buffett’s annual luncheon auction was off to a strong start. In mid-afternoon on Monday, the luncheon was bid up at just over…
Apple Dominates TV Everywhere Viewing
ThinkstockThe average U.S. TV viewer may regularly watch just 17 of the hundreds of channels available, but that average viewer’s consumption of TV is skyrocketing. The main agents of the rapidly rising video viewing…
GM Gets Major Interest Ahead of Internal Investigation Report
Wikimedia CommonsGeneral Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) has seen its shares surge ahead of Thursday’s release of the internal findings from the company’s recall process. It was recently shown that GM was a top hedge…
What If No Quantitative Easing Comes From the European Central Bank?
ThinkstockIf you have watched the stock market, bond market and the economy in general for the past five years or so, it will be no surprise that the world’s economies and financial markets are…
NRG Pays $2.5 Billion for Largest Wind Farm in America
NRG Yield announced Wednesday morning that it has agreed to acquire the Alta Wind facility from Terra-Gen Power. NRG Yield is majority-owned by NRG Energy.
FuelCell Earnings to Drag Its Rivals
FuelCell Energy opened at $2.02 Wednesday, after the company posted disappointing results Tuesday night. Shares have cut their opening loss by more than half.
ISM Signals Slightly Better Economic Recovery Underway
ThinkstockThe ISM Non-Manufacturing Index rose to 56.3 in May from 55.2 in April. The gain might not look like that much, but investors and economic watchers need to consider that this was actually the…
Northrop Grumman Wins Stealth Bomber Contract Worth Up to $9.9 Billion
Northrop Grumman won the biggest Defense Department contract of the day. Valued at up to $9.9 billion, Northrop's project is to modernize and support the Air Force's B-2 Stealth Bombers.
Refiners Running at Higher Rates as Demand Rises
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories decreased by 3.4 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 389.5…
Microsoft Is Bringing Office to Google’s Android
Microsoft plans to release a version of its Office software suite -- optimized for touch screens -- for Google’s Android operating system. As consumers increasingly embrace non-Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office stands to benefit…
Were Payrolls in May Really as Bad as ADP Claimed?
ThinkstockEvery month traders await the new payrolls and unemployment report from the U.S. Labor Department. This is generally the most widely anticipated number of all economic reports. So, preliminary non-government reports such as ADP…
Pentagon Awards $10.5 Billion in Defense Contracts
The Department of Defense awarded $10.46 billion in defense contracts Tuesday. The winning defense contractors included included Olin Corp., Boeing, and General Dynamics. The non-defense related companies included Ibis Biosciences, Kellogg, Brown & Root,…
Apple’s U.S. Smartphone Market Share Sliced
For the three months ending in April, Samsung Electronics gained 1% of market share from Apple and other smartphone makers to grow its share of the U.S. smartphone market to 27.7%.