The equivalent of PMI in Europe is starting to look like China’s. EuroStat announced that “In January 2011 compared with January 2010, industrial producer prices gained 6.1% in the euro area and...
By Saul Sterman At first I was going to list all the M&A deals announced to date this year and then realized that this would be the longest article I had ever written in my life. The markets are...
The Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Quarterly Economic Forecast  predicts that inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) will expand by 2.9 percent in 2010, followed by 2.6 percent growth in...
From dealing with unexpected medical costs to supporting adult children, Americans often find themselves facing expenses they weren’t anticipating in their golden years. Plus, it’s harder to save...
In early March, the financial news began to turn good, Citigroup (C) said it has been profitable for the first two months of the year. There were several M&A deals in which large companies paid above...
Home Depot (NYSE: HD) posts worse numbers with each passing quarter. The big home improvement retailer reported fiscal 2007 fourth quarter consolidated net earnings of $671 million, or $.40 per...
For all of the quants and technical traders, nearly 87% of the S&P  500 stocks were above their moving averages on April 30, down from over 92% at the close of the previous week. To the extent that...
Pinched between poor back-to-school sales and a holiday sales season that is anticipated to be the worse in years is Halloween which generally brings retailers about $5 billion. This year will not...
The Labor Department is out with the newest round of its unemployment and non-Farm payrolls data.  Unlike expectations, it is ugly.  The data for November showed an unemployment rate of 9.8% and...
There have been questions about the role of Lehman Bros auditor Ernst & Young since an investigation into the bankruptcy done by an independent party–Anton R. Valukas, Chairman of Jenner & Block...
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) just released its November auto sales, and it is pretty hard to get excited about the data.  The company sold 118,818 units in November, below the 119,000 Edmunds.com...
Perhaps one of the more interesting ways of looking at companies is trying to garner the mindset of the company’s legal department and the "Legal Proceedings" section of annual...
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co is saying that as tech spending rises pressure on price for hardware components is actually under more pressure. Hence, the quote above from WSJ.com AMD’s (AMD)...
A day after the Commerce Department said sales of new homes fell 8.4% last month from May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 350,000, real estate research firm RealtyTrac reported that first...