The Fed's loose-money policies have goosed the economy, but also gas prices. President Obama loves the former but hates the latter.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

Nike posted third quarter earnings the beat analysts' estimates as revenue continues to tread higher on solid business in the US, China, and even Western Europe. While margins slid, the stock moved up.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

Quiz time: if you're 18 years old and your ambition is to become president of the United States, where should you go to college? How about Harvard? Or maybe Yale??? If you're an 18-year old who wants to become an NBA lottery pick, where should you go to school? I would argue for The . ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

The film is expected to earn $125 million at the box office this weekend.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

The central banks will do their best to keep stock prices from plunging. But at some point in time, without a real economic recovery, they're going to fail.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang is nothing if not bold. He drives a red Ferrari. He wears a leather jacket. And just ask him sometime about the fried chicken business? Huang's latest suggestion: rather than trying to keep up, should put its cutting-edge semiconductor factories to work building chips from companies such as , , , ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:08

By Laurie Werner ? You are surprised by how quiet an elephant is when it wants to be. Here they are padding near silently through the open savanna of South Africa?s Kapama Reserve, past giraffes and buffalo and rhinos who are so used to having elephants around that they don?t even look up. And sitting ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:06

Several copper stocks continue to be surrounded by relatively optimistic sentiment -- indicating that additional weakness could be in store, from a contrarian perspective.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27

Associated Banc (ASBC) was downgraded today by Morgan Stanley (MS) from equal weight to underweight [...]

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27

A recently released study entitled "Small , Credit Access, and a Lingering Recession" by Denny Dennis of the National Federation of Independent (NFIB) provides interesting data on how the share of small businesses that have bank loans varies by company size. The figure below shows the fraction of small businesses with bank loans for companies ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27