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As you might have guessed ahead of time, Ben Bernanke and the FOMC decided to leave the target Fed Funds Rate unchanged at the 0.00% to 0.25% that has been in place for what now feels like the dawn...
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People who want to order the new iPhone from Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) online store can do so now, as long as they are willing to get the phone with a black finish. No other colors are available...
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The change in weekly jobless claims came in at 631,000 for this last week. That is a drop of 14,000, but that also comes after a revision of the week before to 645,000 rather than the preliminary...
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The media’s first reaction to the Commerce Department’s new home sales number was, in almost every case, positive. That was a mistake.New home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of...
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Home Depot’s (HD) sales only rose 4% in the most recent quarter, to $20.27 billion. And same-store sales for the period fell 6.6%. EPS fell from $.60 to $.50. Operating income fell 22%. There...
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The U.S. Department of Labor reported that weekly jobless claims were at 272,000 in the week ending February 20. Its report from a week ago was 262,000. The consensus estimate from both Bloomberg and...
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The staff at most of the Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) recently went though a few hours for training. The nationwide program was designed to make the people working in the stores do a better job of serving...
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2019 was a very good year for the top U.S. defense firms. Most posted double-digit share price gains and a wave of consolidation could push more gains in the year ahead.
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If you didn't know that you could do group calls on Apple devices, you do now.
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Executions – by hanging, firing squad, electric chair, or lethal injections – have been part of the U.S. justice system since the founding of the country. From 1608 to 2002, 15,629 people...
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When Gen. Dwight Eisenhower surveyed the beaches of Normandy months after the D-Day Invasion, which secured an Allied foothold in continental Europe, he stated: “Without air supremacy, I wouldn’t...
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Coverage of the appearance of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference run by tech news site TechCrunch was widespread. Zuckerberg said he was disappointed by the performance...
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The pricing of Tesla's offer to acquire SolarCity has been finalized, and SolarCity shareholders reacted pretty much as one might expect.
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This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Melly Alazraki. India is the world’s biggest importer of arms, and it has been for some...
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Cisco is scheduled to release its fiscal first-quarter financial results after the markets close on Wednesday.
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