The economy is dying and the process is accelerating by the day now. The Conference Board released extremely weak data. The Leading Economic Index for the U.S. increased 0.1% in July to 109.8,...
The Institute for Supply Management has issued its reading for January non-manufacturing and the data is strong.  Very strong.  At 56.8, this is the best reading in almost a year.  Dow Jones was...
First Data will acquire CardConnect by paying $15 per share in cash for all outstanding shares. The deal is valued at roughly $750 million.
Source: thinkstockRetail chain sales are down 0.5% for the first three weeks of June versus May, according to Redbook Research, but the report is actually a gain of 2.8% from a year ago. What is...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Large Cap Watch List member First Data (FDC) has announced it will Exit Official Check and Money Order Business: First Data Corp. (NYSE:FDC) announced today...
Whether you’ve been dating for several months, married for years, or are going on a date with someone for the first time, an entertaining and romantic outing can be appreciated by all. And in the...
Source: ThinkstockFor some reason, investors and the rest of the world are fascinated by the decision of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) management to halt the ability of people to work from remote...
First Data shares took a step back on Thursday after the company announced the pricing of its secondary offering.
We have just seen a very mixed bag of economic data this morning ahead of the holiday.  While nothing is atrocious, none of it is exactly showing a gangbuster economy.  Other data is different, but...
The Labor Department has just released its latest round of Weekly Jobless Claims fell 17,000 to 421,000 claims from an upwardly revised 438,000 the week before.  Bloomberg had estimates pegged at...
On Friday, the gambling control board of Macau released its report on the island’s gambling revenues for December and all of 2014, and the news beat down casino stock prices in early trading.
The stock market did not fall apart at the seams, but it did very poorly on news that existing home sales dropped last month by 2.7% to a rate of 5.1 million. That was down from a figure of 5.24...
The Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims data.  The figure came in as a gain of 11,000 in the jobless line at 444,000.  We had a consensus expected from Bloomberg as being...
The game of predicting the Labor Department’s data on Non-Farm Payrolls and Unemployment before the first Friday of each month is truly nothing more than a game.  Estimates fluctuate wildly and...
The data on consumer spending and consumer confidence continues to be mixed, although the trends increasingly appear negative. Economists say that these numbers are directionally correct. However, so...