All-time stock index highs from 2007 have finally been eclipsed, suggesting to analysts that more growth is in store...
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 [...]
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.
Most notably, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index broke through its previous record high...
After a two-week long closure, lines between 15 and 20 people deep formed outside branches in the nation’s capital of Nicosia Thursday...
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.
Pending home sales declined in February, the rapid growth of the Chinese economy is slowing down, and the student debt bubble stretches even further...
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...
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...
The Energy Information Administration reported that U.S. crude oil inventories jumped last week...
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...
Home prices posted their highest year-over-year increases in seven years, suggesting that a housing recovery is well underway...
Here's an outline of the possible, and some unintended, problems that may accompany the last-minute deal on Cyprus.
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...
Here's what investors need to know now...