ThinkstockFargo, N.D., perhaps most associated with the Academy Award winning movie that many critics believed was the best of 1996, has become the jobs capital of the United States. The city’s unemployment rate is…
courtesy of the White HouseThe economy may be getting better, albeit at a slow pace. Americans do not seem to believe the improvement is fast enough or good enough, at least insofar as any…
ThinkstockOne more reason that gold prices should be falling is data on the demand for gold that dropped 12% in the second quarter, compared with the same quarter last year. However, demand for physical…
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Wikimedia Commons After three years of powerful economic expansion prior to 2008, the Great Recession caused the revenues of many American companies to plunge to multi-year lows. While sales at most big companies have…
courtesy of AOL, IncMaybe the era when firing people in public was acceptable has ended. Perhaps some executives can still get away with it. Clearly, Tim Armstrong of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) took a…
courtesy of Apple Inc.In a remarkably short time, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has gone from being a dictatorship to a democracy. What Steve Jobs could do as he moved the company from a modest…
ThinkstockAfter years of recession, and fears that the recession would continue years longer, Europe has moved back into the GDP growth column. The EU research arm said about the growth of gross domestic product…
ThinkstockGermany’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.7% in the second quarter. Since the European Union’s largest economy relies heavily on trade within the region, the numbers are another sign of a modest recovery there.…
Courtesy BlackBerrySome company is supposed to buy BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), or at least that is what its board appears to believe. The way the smartphone corporation’s stock trades tells otherwise. After a sharp…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.As the fight between big J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JPC) shareholder and former board member William Ackman and some of the rest of the board rages on, no one has…
courtesy of KFCYum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) is not the first American company to stumble badly in China. It will not be the last, either. China is Yum! Brands’ most important market. The company…
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsArtist Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Elon Musk has had that 15 minutes and then some. However, it is time for him…
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWOften forgotten among the publicity Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) gets for its red-hot growth, and the well-regarded marketing and pricing strategies of Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST), is…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsA rumor from tech site All Things D that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release new versions of its iPhone on September 10 has spread around to news and tech sites…
TwitterTwitter apparently will go public sometime early next year. Analysts have put its value at more than $10 billion. Twitter management and its bankers ought to be concerned that shares will be hit by the…
ThinkstockDespite some year-over-year improvement of sales in July, China’s car market remains relatively troubled, as its sales improvement rate runs slightly behind that of the United States. As the economy in the People’s Republic…
ThinkstockJapan’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose only 2.6% on an annualized basis in the second quarter, a deep disappointment. There has been an effort to marginalize Japan despite the experimentation of its central bank…
courtesy of ZyngaResults that were less than awful and a new CEO helped shares of Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) and Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) to move up from abysmal lows. However, neither company has…
courtesy of USPSPeople ought to get used to the fact that farmers cannot get mail more than twice a week, city dwellers should go without Saturday delivery, hundreds of post offices should be closed,…