Apple is set to report its fiscal fourth quarter financial results after the markets close on Thursday. Out of all the FAANG stocks Apple has actually performed the best despite a horrific October....
The Conference Board has released its January reading of consumer confidence, showing a gain after dipping in December.
PepsiCo is scheduled to release its most recent quarterly results before the markets open on Wednesday.
As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee under Ben Bernanke has voted to leave the Fed Funds Rate unchanged at the Target of 0.00% to 0.25%.  The vote was 9 to 1 against a rate hike, again...
This week’s FOMC statement and ‘less-bad’ recent economic data brought up an interesting notion now that the Federal Reserve seems to be at least a bit less negative on the economy.  Ditto on...
Google (GOOG) began offering $10 to customers who sign up for its Checkout service, a competitor to Ebay’s (EBAY) PayPal. Paying to get customers seems like a bad sign, but, who knows? Google...
Peter Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, gave a presentation today before the committee of the budget in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The end result is that his...
Not all that long ago, the investing community was being led to believe that the United States never would have to worry about inflation.
Kroger is scheduled to release its most recent quarterly results before the markets open on Thursday.
Qualcomm is scheduled to release its most recent quarterly report after the markets close on Wednesday. The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters are calling for $0.81 in EPS and $5.26 billion in...
Visa is scheduled to release its fiscal fourth-quarter financial results after the markets close on Wednesday.
Verizon Communications is scheduled to release its second-quarter financial results before the markets open on Tuesday.
Why do the Europeans, and anyone else for that matter, continue to play this ongoing shell game with Greece?
Natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has reportedly struck a deal to sell about 504,000 net acres of leasehold in the northern part of the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) basin, which...
The Conference Board has released its Consumer Confidence Index for the month of February. By the tone of the headline, you might expect that things got worse. After posting a slight gain in January,...