Americans are fat and getting fatter by the year. Recent data reported in medical journal Lancet showed that BMI (Body Mass Index), a recognized measurement of obesity, is higher on average in America than…
Housing prices may not return to pre-credit crisis levels for another five years, so experts say. They may never recover to those levels at all in hard-hit areas such as Las Vegas and South…
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report in 2007 which said that “up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation.” The report made…
GM (NYSE: GM) workers will probably get about $3,000 in profit-sharing for 2010. The reward would cover 53,000 union members who are also hourly workers. The program is part of a plan to get…
The SEC will try to make market traders less reliant on ratings agencies. (Reuters) GM (NYSE: GM) will set up a profit-sharing plan for workers. (WSJ) S&P warned Japan on its credit rating. (Reuters)…
A new Gallup poll says people are more optimistic than they have been in three years. Forty-one percent of Americans in January said the economy is “getting better,” up from 35% in December and…
Spring is traditionally the best season for new home builders. In 12 of the past 14 years, sales of new homes peaked in March or April. If 2011 is going to live up to…
All in all, then, I expect noticeably stronger growth in overall activity this year than last. If I had to write down a forecast today, it would be pretty close to 4 percent. A…
By John Tamny Conventional economists still rhapsodize over the alleged exporting benefits of devaluation even though the latter logically points to increased shipping, input and labor costs that would steal any of devaluation’s illusory…
Updated throughout the day. Keith Olbermann is on the way to Current TV (various) Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) is for sale (Reuters) A cancelled NASA rocket could be turned into a space taxi (NYT)…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Breitburn Energy Partners, LLC. (NASDAQ: BBEP), Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNXT), and Pennant Park,…
President Obama spoke to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. What he said can be condensed easily. He will do what he can to cut unnecessary regulations and improve the corporate tax code. He…
Data released by comScore about mobile phone sales in December showed that trends from earlier in the year continued. Sales of Samsung handsets bested all of its rivals in the US with a market…
Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) posted mediocre results for its fiscal third quarter which ended on December 31, and the nine months which ended on the same day. The world’s largest car company also increased…
Regulators will push to keep Wall St. firms from side stepping regulations on financial firm pay. (Reuters) Toyota Motor’s (NYSE: TM) fiscal third quarter profits fell but it increased it forecast for production during…
The joint venture between Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. (NASDAQ: ERIC), aptly called Sony Ericcson, tantalized gamers with a commercial during yesterday’s Super Bowl for a device everyone’s been calling…
nationsonline.orgThe international media is full of reports about the battle between France and Germany on one side and the balance of the eurozone nations on the other. Germany in particular wants the economically weak…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
By John Tamny of Forbes A recent story in the New York Post revealed that if Wal-Wart were allowed to open in the five boroughs, that New Yorkers would save 33% on a common…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX), Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNX), and Yongye International,…