A pretty mixed bag for Asia today with most core indices playing around unchanged for much of the day. The late weakness in the DOW obviously didn’t help confidence but then futures are bouncing bac...
from the International Monetary Fund — this post authored by Geoffrey Bannister and Alexandros Mourmouras For years, economists have worked to develop a way of measuring general well-being an...
Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending March 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 231,000, an increase of 21,000 from the previous w...
They’re back. I thought they had all given up, but like an old college buddy who’s going through a bad divorce and just needs a place to crash for a ‘few days,’ the corporate credit skeptics a...
The Q4 earnings season for the pharma/biotech sector was scattered with a few small biotech companies yet to report. The releases so far provide us with a clear picture of the sector’s performance. ...
Beat Expectations, Stock Falls Anyway In the Q2 2017 earnings season, the market was acting weirdly. Stocks were falling when firms were beating sales expectation. My guess was that stocks priced in g...
Broadcom executives should’ve seen this coming. For months now, Singapore-based Broadcom has pursued a merger with US-based Qualcomm, raising its bid for the largest US-based technology firm t...
The USD fell against most major currencies on Tuesday after U.S. inflation data for February came in line with expectations, suggesting the Federal Reserve remained on track to raise interest rates at...
It’s time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium were unchanged and down one penny, respectively, f...
Shares of Under Armour (UA, UAA) dropped in morning trading following comments made by retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) on its quarterly earnings conference call. SIGNIFICANT WEAKNESS IN UND...