Source: courtesy of Google Inc.First it was Kansas City, now it is Austin. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it is going to be launching its Google Fiber service for ultra high-speed Internet...
Source: ThinkstockYou have heard of all sorts of bubbles in the financial world. There are instances like the housing bubble, a bond bubble, the dot-com bubble, the tech bubble, the private equity...
Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) said it will take a week to decide whether it will negotiate a new, sweetened deal from Coty. Coty has just gotten financial support from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire...
The battle cries of retailers as the approach this holiday season is “may a fool and his money soon be parted.” Unfortunately, there are fewer fools than there were two years ago when the...
The weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department was roughly in-line with expectations as the rate came to an adjusted drop of 3,000 jobless claims to 456,000.  The reading from a weak ago was...
At the recent annual gathering of China’s political elite, one official followed another in a nearly endless line, stepping up to the podium to insist that China’s GDP would grow at an 8% or...
GM needed to prove to Wall St. that its cost cuts were working. It did so in spades. The big auto company reported a fourth quarter profit of $950 million, after a loss of $6.6 billion in the same...
Matt Simmons, founder of Houston-based Simmons and Co International believes that oil will be above $100 for some time to come. "Demand is far more durable than anyone ever thought,"...
As gasoline prices continue to decline nationwide, the average price per gallon in one Louisiana town is a mere two dollars.
Voting is a right that many Americans embrace and exercise regularly, in local or state elections, and especially in presidential elections. Still, the right to vote has been the topic of much debate...
Since Fitbit released its second-quarter financial results after the markets closed on Wednesday, shares bounced off an all-time low, contributing to the rally of the broad markets.
OK, so it is no secret that Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) screwed its shareholders.  You should not be surprised because Zynga is one of these new-age Web 2.0 (or Web 3.0) companies with a split share...
Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker issued a statement this morning defending his lone vote against the Fed’s extension of Operation Twist. Lacker said that more monetary stimulus would not make...
As the Zika virus disease threatens to spread north along the Florida Coast, stories in the news media often make it seem that the virus is new.
A note from the desk of President Jeffrey M. Lacker, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond:“The median inflation expectation from the University of Michigan’s monthly survey of consumer sentiment is...