Source: Jon OggTwo economic reports are driving interest this morning. The key Empire Manufacturing report brought some surprise growth in the July report, but retail sales from June managed to go...
Source: ThinkstockData centers are the backbone of the Internet. Gartner estimates that given current rising levels of data use, global data center demand will rise 7% on a compounded annual growth...
Premarket futures inched back into the green to start a new week.
First Data Corp. has filed an amended form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding its initial public offering.
Source: nationsonline.orgThe question of whether the eurozone has slipped back into recession has been answered. Data from Markit show that “Eurozone business activity slips back into...
Source: courtesy of Facebook Inc.A new study by Cambridge University professors shows that “undisclosed” private data that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) might collect could be used to predict...
The Labor Department has just released its figure for weekly jobless claims.  The figure came in at 505,000 in the last week, exactly in-line with the Bloomberg consensus data.  This is also...
Intercontinental Exchange has announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Interactive Data.
Wholesale inflation continues, but the supply side is having a hard time passing on the price increases if the Labor Department is right on its inflation data.  The February Consumer Price Index...
Data breaches are perhaps one of the biggest burdens that companies face in 2018. Forget slumping sales or careless ad campaigns. When a company is breached and hackers have all its customers’...
After the surprise drop of 23,000 in ADP estimated payrolls for March, all eyes were on the Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims data.  There was a drop of 6,000 on an adjusted basis to...
The unemployment rates and jobs data almost does not add up on the surface. Some of this may boil down to seasonality issues, but many traders are scratching their heads after seeing this report. ...
The most downloaded dating app in the first half of the year was Tinder.
The Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims and the figure showed that there were -26,000 to 550,000 in weekly claims.  The prior week’s initial figure of 570,000 was revised to...
Housing Starts came in much better than expected, on the surface.  We saw a reading of 532,000 on housing starts on an annual basis.  This is a gain of 17.2% and we were only expecting a 7% gain...