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April 04, 2013March Queues Up More Disappointing Jobs Data
Echoing disappointing labor market data released earlier in the week, the Department of Labor reported on Thursday that claims for unemployment insurance increased in March...
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April 02, 2013Tuesday’s Mid-Day Movers: 3 Stories Driving Markets
Factory activity increased at a moderate pace in February, unemployment in Europe remains high, and Easter helps retail sales...
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April 02, 2013Are Capital Controls the Bane of Cyprus?
Cyprus's capital controls may not be the best model to follow.
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April 02, 2013The Easter Bunny Gave Retail Sales a Helping Hand
Throughout March, abnormally cold weather -- rather than tough economic headwinds -- kept consumer spending lower than it was last year...
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April 02, 2013Europe Continues To Slide Down Slippery Economic Slope
European manufacturing business conditions took a turn for the worst in March, while unemployment remains painfully high...
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April 02, 2013Will the Markets Get a Shot of Positivity From Earnings?
Here's what investors need to know now...
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April 01, 2013Here’s How To Solve the Real GDP Mystery
How do you get from Nominal GDP to Real GDP? You extract inflation from the numbers.
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April 01, 2013Monday’s Mid-Day Movers: 3 Stories Driving Markets
Construction outlays rebound, manufacturing activity increases more slowly than expected, and losses in Cyprus continue to grow...
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April 01, 2013Markets Retreat After Unexpectedly Slow Manufacturing Growth
An unexpectedly humble manufacturing report released by the ISM on Monday helped pull markets lower...
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April 01, 2013Will Construction Spending Boost First Quarter GDP?
The United States Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau reported that construction outlays rebounded in February...
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April 01, 2013Will Strong Manufacturing Data Be a Boon To Monday’s Markets?
Overall manufacturing business conditions are the best they have been in two years, according to data released on Monday...
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April 01, 2013The Grand Compromise Between Big Business and Labor
Someone with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday that the top business and labor groups in the country have come to an agreement on a guest worker program for low-skilled immigrants...
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April 01, 2013
Bank of Cyprus Deposits Could Evaporate This Insane Amount
U.S. markets surged to record highs this week. Yet Bank of Cyprus depositors learned they might lose up to 60 percent in worst-case scenarios.
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March 31, 2013S&P 500′s New All-Time High: A Long, Strange Trip in Pictures
A few charts speak 1000 words...
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March 30, 2013S&P 500 Hits All-Time Record. Is More Growth Ahead?
All-time stock index highs from 2007 have finally been eclipsed, suggesting to analysts that more growth is in store...
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March 30, 2013Michigan Consumer Sentiment Bounces Back
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment final number for March came in at 78.6, a substantial bounce from the March preliminary reading of 71.8. Today’s number is one point above the 77.6 February final. The Briefing.com consensus was for a much lower 72.4. The latest number takes us back to a range about midway between [...]
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March 29, 2013Does Limited GDP Growth Indicate Better Things to Come?
While Europe finds itself still shrouded in the dark veil of the debt crisis, the U.S. is looking at decidedly brighter skies, as the economy continues its positive trajectory.
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March 28, 2013Thursday’s Mid-Day Movers: 3 Stories Driving Markets
Most notably, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index broke through its previous record high...
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March 28, 2013Banks Open in Cyprus: Is This Good News?
After a two-week long closure, lines between 15 and 20 people deep formed outside branches in the nation’s capital of Nicosia Thursday...
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March 28, 2013Is This Further Jump In Jobless Claims Evidence of Sluggish Q4 Growth?
Despite a continued downtrend in jobless claims, recent hiccups have indicated that the economy has not maintained the rate of growth that fueled optimism earlier in the year.
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March 27, 2013
Wednesday Afternoon Cheat Sheet: 3 Stories That Moved Markets
Pending home sales declined in February, the rapid growth of the Chinese economy is slowing down, and the student debt bubble stretches even further...
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March 27, 2013
Wednesday’s Mid-Day Movers: 3 Stories Driving Markets
The U.S. equity markets opened in the red and remained there in afternoon trading. Relatively weak pending home-sales data and ongoing concerns about the stability of the euro zone weighed heavily on investment decisions...
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March 27, 2013Can China Maintain Its Monstrous Rate Of Growth?
A senior adviser to the Federal Reserve projects that China's rate of GDP growth will decline to just over 6 percent over the next 20 years...
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March 27, 2013Price Of U.S. Crude Oil Falls As Inventories Jump
The Energy Information Administration reported that U.S. crude oil inventories jumped last week...
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March 27, 2013Cyprus Axes Top Banking Executive Amid Bailout Turmoil
Consensus among observers seems to be that the the single most ill-conceived aspect of the initial bailout package for Cyprus was the attempt to charge a 6.75 percent levy against small deposits...
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March 26, 2013The Cyprus Solution Comes With All This Collateral Damage
Here's an outline of the possible, and some unintended, problems that may accompany the last-minute deal on Cyprus.
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March 26, 2013
Can Cyprus Avoid a Bank Run And Remain In The Euro Zone?
There's no sure way to tell what the fallout from the closure of Cyprus's second-largest bank will be, but word on the street is that it will be bad...
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March 26, 2013
Does the Last-Minute Cyprus Deal Have the Markets Unsure?
Here's what investors need to know now...
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March 26, 2013Tuesday Morning Cheat Sheet: 3 Stories Moving Markets
The BRICS nations gear up to establish a pool of foreign-currency reserves, S&P cuts its euro zone GDP growth forecast, and Cyprus remains in the spotlight...
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March 25, 2013Monday Afternoon Cheat Sheet: 3 Stories That Moved Markets
Bernanke defends expansionary monetary policy, Cyprus reaches a last-minute deal with creditors, and debt threatens retirement for many Americans...
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