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U.S. equity markets opened sharply lower again this morning, but this time reacting to yesterday’s comments by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that the Fed could ...

Shares of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) have touched a new low for 2013 this morning. Today’s overall weak market has something to do with the ...

Shares of Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) and Silver Wheaton Corp. (NYSE: SLW) were halted shortly after noon today following a Chilean court ruling that ...

The New York Stock Exchange is showing something that we would be more concerned about than optimistic. Margin debt at the NYSE grew for the ...

After last night’s dismal company earnings report, Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) does not appear to have many options left in its efforts to turn ...

High-flying energy company InterOil Corp. (NYSE: IOC) is getting another stock price boost this morning after revealing that the company is in “exclusive” negotiations with ...

Stocks entered the weekend on a mixed note as the S&P 500 shed 0.1% while the D...

July crude oil lifted off its session low of $93.04 per barrel set moments aft...

The major averages continue to trade near their recent levels as today's sessio...

After opening sharply lower, the three indices have spent the entire day in a s...

Although the Dow Jones has been able to climb back to its flat line, the S&P 50...

The major averages have continued their climb towards yesterday's closing level...

The final week of May will be critical for the markets as volatility hit a number of regional stock indices this week, although the United ...

Seven Arts Entertainment Inc. (OTC: SAPX)  ("Seven Arts" or the "Company") became aware that the public relations agency of an entity known to ...

BlackBerry(R) (NASDAQ: BBRY)(TSX:BB) will be reporting results for the first quarter of fiscal 2014 on June 28, 2013.

One of this week's most prominent themes has been speculation that the Federal Reserve is either going to wind down or soon end its $85 ...

A day after a sell-off hit much of the world, but spared the United States, the U.S. market was essentially flat on the last trading ...

Silver Wheaton Corp.

While some, we are sure, will view this brief clip as partisan showmanship by Representative Steve Pearce, the questions he asks Treasury Secretary should surely ...

Bulls are a determined and desperate bunch. There were two consecutive days of large sell-offs this week but on ...

Submitted by Daniel Graeber of OilPrice.com, Exxon Mobil hasn't asked federal regulatory authorities to restart the Pegasus oil pipeline, which burst open in a ...

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With the first arrow of Abenomics perhaps hitting its limit, it will be the second and third arrows that need to occur quickly and aggressively ...

Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, Years ago as a young intelligence officer, I served a stint in Saudi Arabia running a ...

Citigroup's direct involvement in shaping a House bill suggests it feels that it should work behind the scenes to shape legislation for its benefit. Fears ...

Banks’ lobbyists help in drafting bills on finance. | Brazil is luring the millisecond investor. | In a plus for electrics, Tesla repays a big ...

The departure of Robert McDonald as Procter & Gamble's chief executive was yet another victory for the hedge fund manager William A. Ackman. But how ...

If completed, a transaction would be one of the biggest health care deals of the year. And it could reap a sizable profit for Bausch ...

Dish Network's argument that Japanese ownership of the American cellphone operator is a risk to national security is half-baked and shows desperation, the author contends.

Purpose is a uniquely powerful source of fuel – and satisfaction. That’s why we resonate so strongly with exhortations that speak to it, the author ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang criticized the European Union over its plans to investigate alleged anti-competitive behavior by Chinese mobile telecom equipment makers ...

(Reuters) - News Corp said on Friday it will write down the value of its Australian and U.S. publishing assets by up to $1.4 billion, ...

(Reuters) - US Airways Group and American Airlines , seeking approval for a merger that would create the world's largest airline, are warning lawmakers that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stock market's break in its recent rally this week left investors wondering if they're seeing a turning point or just ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp , Wells Fargo and Co ...

(Reuters) - The former chief executive of a failed U.S. bank in Norfolk, Virginia, and three others were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit bank ...

Special Report: Record Dow -- Last year we predicted the Dow would hit 15,000 in 2013. That performance may be just the beginning.

The market timers with the best track records are unanimous: Stocks are headed higher. Those with the worst performance history, meanwhile, say it's time to ...

How Wall Street titan Leon Cooperman stays on top in investing and philanthropy.

Spinal device maker Globus Medical is poised to boost sales as aging Americans seek surgical solutions for their back pain.

With stocks and bonds bid up high, investors interested in safeguarding 401(k) capital may want to buy stable value funds.

Credit Suisse cites EV Energy, Hi-Crush, QR Energy and others.

Google is deep into an effort to fund, build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a ...

The Chilean government fined Barrick $15.8 million for alleged breaches in environmental controls at its flagship Pascua-Lama mine.

Turkey moved to curb alcohol sales and restrict advertisements in a move likely to deepen outrage among secular Turks who accuse the government of having ...

Here's the beef: Enjoy the Memorial Day grilling, because retail beef prices are widely expected to set new records in coming weeks.

Ista Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $33.5 million to resolve charges that it promoted its anti-inflammatory drug Xibrom for unapproved uses in an effort to ...

Teenage-apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch reported a sharp drop in quarterly sales, but said it is having success fixing inventory problems.

An energy company’s plan to drill an exploratory oil well in a bucolic area of southern England has galvanized residents.

Purpose is a uniquely powerful source of fuel – and satisfaction. That’s why we resonate so strongly with exhortations that speak to it, the author ...

The closing of a plant in Paducah, Ky., could pose a problem for the American nuclear weapons arsenal over time but is not likely to ...

The recent attacks seem to be aimed at sabotage rather than stealing information, United States officials say.

If completed, a transaction would be one of the biggest health care deals of the year. And it could reap a sizable profit for Bausch ...

Mike Darnell, who has supervised reality programming for Fox since before the term reality show entered the lexicon, oversaw “American Idol,” once the most popular ...

The Internal Revenue Service unit under fire for its reviews of conservative organizations has a long history of targeting groups with extra scrutiny, including foreclosure-assistance ...

As stock prices pause in their nearly two-month push to higher records this week, bearish strategists are passing on the temptation to raise S&P 500 ...

MarketWatch’s top 10 stories of the pre–Memorial Day week, from Tim Cook and Jamie Dimon to Xbox and mozzarella Caprese.

Tiffany & Co. and United Natural Foods will be among the stocks to watch Tuesday after the three-day holiday weekend.

More studies question the health benefits of endurance running for exercisers over 40. ...

U.S. stocks fell for the first week in five as the prospects that the Federal Reserve could start reducing its bond-buying stimulus rattled a market ...

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New residents are flocking to these 10 cities - from Phoenix to Houston to San Diego.

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Money magazine's Best Deals on Everything: Your guide to the latest vacation bargains in Mexico, Greece and Disney World. Plus, how to get cheap airfare.

Investors have been rattled this week amid signs that some Fed officials are concerned the central bank is being too accommodative.

Electric car network runs out of gas.

Municipal bonds face trouble ahead that one expert links to lava flowing from a volcano.

The damage from the tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma may soon spread to homeowners' pocketbooks, experts say.

Charlotte Motor Speedway will be roaring this Sunday as Nascar driver Danica Patrick takes the wheel.

With the exit of P&G's CEO, Bill Ackman collected another big-game trophy. How's his fund doing? Let's check the score.

Visa and MasterCard asked a judge to declare that credit-card fees paid by retailers are legal.

The investment strategy Jim Cramer learned while he was living in his car.

BLOGGERS worried that Yahoo could stifle the youthful, rebellious spirit of Tumblr, a blogging service that it bought for $1.1 billion on May 20th, might ...

ON MAY 25th Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees baseball team, is due to be the stage for a football (soccer) match between ...

Can you find the safe one? “A COUNTRY like this can put a satellite into space but it ...

VIDEO games are big money-spinners. According to DFC Intelligence, a market-research firm, the industry was worth almost $80 ...

IMAGINE that Apple could sell iPhones in Brazil only if it ploughed 20% of its projected revenues there ...

A.G. Lafley first became P&G’s chief in 2000 after his predecessor tried to drive through a restructuring plan that had brought chaos and a flurry ...

Murdoch media empire has appointed new boards to manage groups although Rupert, Lachlan and James will retain seats in both companies

Decision lifts cloud that had gathered over ex-finance minister’s position as leader of one of the world’s top international institutions

The former chancellor’s comments highlight the fierce debate in Scotland fuelled by the release of rival reports by the UK and Scottish governments

The ascent of Germany, on and off the pitch, has not been lost on UK observers, with policy makers looking to Berlin for economic inspiration

Jim Cramer once worked at perhaps the most prestigious brokerage on Wall Street.

Cramer doesn’t advocate short-term trading But if you're going to do it anyway...

Looking back at his life, Jim Cramer reveals a secret to his stock picking success.

The investment strategy Jim Cramer learned while he was living in his car.

Want to interest your kids in the market? Here's how to do it, said Cramer.

The value that society places of medical services is the best determinant of just pay for doctors, an economist writes.

A Century Foundation report shows a sharp increase in enrollment of lower-income, nonwhite students at community colleges, institutions that will do much to shape the ...

All the talk of safeguards and international cooperation is likely to prove ineffectual if a huge international bank fails, two economists write.

Because the state's employees are relatively highly paid, the impact of Massachusetts' health care reform is likely to be different than that of the Affordable ...

No hard evidence has ever emerged that the Bush tax cuts stimulated the economy, an economist writes.

It keeps getting harder to find conservatives worth listening to.

What was your favorite economic history story this week?

Buying Tumblr was a good move but selling Alibaba is going to haunt Yahoo for a long time.

Some supporters of Obamacare are willing to try every trick in the book to convince a skeptical public that the law may actually lower health ...

While the controversy over the Heritage Foundation's recent report holding that increased immigration would cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars has died down, understanding the economic ...

Capital Product Partners L.P. (NASDAQ:CPLP) has experienced an increase in support from the world’s most elite money managers in recent months. In today’s marketplace, there ...

Ship Finance International Limited (NYSE:SFL) investors should be aware of an increase in hedge fund sentiment recently. To the average investor, there are plenty of ...

Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR) investors should be aware of an increase in support from the world’s most elite money managers lately. According to most stock ...

Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC) has seen a decrease in enthusiasm from smart money recently. In today’s marketplace, there are tons of metrics investors can ...

Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) has been moving on rolling out new smartphone devices that run the brand-new and well-received BlackBerry 10 operating system, and ...

The chart below shows performance of US sectors and capitalizations over the trailing 12, 6, and 1 month(s).  Performance updated through 5/23/2013. Numbers shown are ...

In light of Thursday’s 7.3% drop in the Nikkei 225, we wanted to review Japan from a trend and relative strength perspective.  Performance over the ...

Mutual fund flow estimates are derived from data collected by The Investment Company Institute covering more than 95 percent of industry assets and are adjusted ...

The chart below measures the percentage of high relative strength stocks that are trading above their 50-day moving average (universe of mid and large cap ...

Financial Times author, Ruchir Sharma, says that money flows into the emerging markets are more discriminate this decade. As the printing presses continue to hum, however, ...

For your weekend reading enjoyment, I have highlighted a few interesting articles from the archives, which I find to be relevant today. The first five articles ...

When I first started dividend investing, I was looking for the lowest commission possible. I ignored any other features of a stock brokerage, since I ...

My favorite companies to invest in are those that have strong competitive advantages, which allow them to have an easily distinguishable product or service. This ...

On Thursday, shares of Digital Realty Trust (DLR) fell sharply after hedge fund manager Jon Jacobson discussed their short opinion on the company at an ...

In a previous article I wrote on when to sell dividend stocks, many investors were absolutely furious that I would not even think about selling ...

Quote of the day Charles Rotblut, “(S)ome investments are often pitched to benefit the seller or the company facilitating the transaction, not the investor. This ...

If you haven’t done it already think about signing up for our daily e-mail, thousands of other Abnormal Returns readers already have. Quote of the ...

This is an early (and incomplete) edition of the linkfest. We will catch up tomorrow. Good luck out there. Quote of the day Francisco Dao, ...

Quote of the day Jason Zweig, “Turnaround Tuesday is a reminder of Wall Street’s most enduring mental handicap: amnesia. Tuesdays haven’t always been a lucky ...

Quote of the day James Surowiecki, “It’s still possible that investor hysteria could eventually inflate stock prices, or that investor panic could send them crashing, ...

  The People’s Progressive Movement has emerged the winner of ...

A mood of benign optimism, mostly devoid of nationalist sentiment, has ...

Is this the "Monsanto Protection Act 2.0"? An amendment inserted ...

“[T]his is a far cry from President Richard Nixon’s interest ...

There has been a long debate about whether or not buying a stock after a split is a good idea. Research shows that it probably ...

Investors are needlessly fretting about several issues right now that have nothing to do with whether the bull market will continue.

Just hold on until this weekend, you worrywarts. Memorial Day marks the official beginning of summer, when the much-vaunted Summer Rally will keep this powerful ...

It will be difficult for the social network to combat valuation worries, writes Mark Hulbert.

Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb resurrects an age-old question facing investors: Are the parts worth more than the whole? Academic researchers have an answer.

Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones says he's sorry for his comments at a university symposium that motherhood causes women to lose the focus needed to be ...

Los Angeles is home to a large slice of the world's bluejeans trade. But as the U.S. apparel industry continues to shrink, the city's high-end ...

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore, Asbury Park is still waiting for insurance and federal aid money. In the meantime, it ...

The Federal Trade Commission is in the early stages of opening an antitrust probe into how Google runs its online display advertising business, according to ...

The plan, first announced last year, would break up the company's publishing and entertainment arms, and satisfy investors who are put off by the slow ...

April New Residential Single Family Home Sales increased 2.3% to 454,000 in annualized sales.   ...

Corporate culture, HR hound dogs who hunt the squeaky wheel, bullying, abuse and politics abound for working ...

The April Consumer Price Index dropped -0.4% from March.  CPI measures inflation, or price increases.  The ...

The DOL reported people filing for initial unemployment insurance benefits in the week ending on May ...

Did you know rich students get financial help from colleges while the poor ones get laden with ...

FT Alphaville is taking Monday 27th May off, for the spring bank holiday in the UK and Memorial Day in the US. Regular posting and ...

Just something to ponder the day after Obama’s speech… Defense spending has already been a negative influence on GDP of late, and the ...

Live markets commentary from FT.com Continue reading: Markets Live: Friday, 24th May, 2013

BoJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda promises to stabilise bond market || Proctor & Gamble brings back AG Lafley || States' rift on taxes widens || Icahn ...

John Calverley and team at Standard Chartered have a big report out looking at how a selection of developed economies are doing post-2008. The short ...

This morning I posted some comments from Michelle Meyer at Merrill Lynch on the likely path of the labor force participation rate. She ...

From housing economist Tom Lawler: Dataquick released its April report on Las Vegas home sales based on property records in Clark County, Nevada, ...

By request, I've updated the graphs in this post with the most recent data. Last year when I wrote The Housing Bottom is ...

Last week I summarized some recent research on the labor force participation rate. The following piece from Michelle Meyer at Merrill Lynch argues ...

From the Department of Commerce: Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders April 2013 New orders for manufactured durable goods ...

Even though earnings season unofficially ended last week with Wal-Mart's (WMT) report, there were still plenty of key reports this week.  In the S&P 500 ...

Investors sure picked a bad time to turn increasingly bullish this week.  According to the weekly sentiment survey from the American Association of Individual Investors ...

Following yesterday's testimony from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, if there was a week where investors may have wanted a weaker than expected jobless claims report, ...

Earlier today we looked at US sector weightings, and below we take a look at the percentage of total world stock market cap that ...

While the S&P 500 had a big downside reversal lower today, it's still more than 8% ABOVE the average year-end price target that Wall Street ...

If old-time department stores were comprehensive, mom-and-pop stores friendly and big-box always low price, what kind of message ...

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal. Coal ...

Terms like "Gen X" and "Gen Y," baby boomer, and millennial get thrown around all of the time, as if we know exactly what they ...

If you follow the right investors on Twitter, you can gain a lot of insight into how ...

This is really cool. Michael Krasnopolski, an art director and graphic designer from Poland, has allowed us to ...

Four top SAC Capital Advisors executives were subpoenaed alongside firm founder Steven Cohen last ...

FrontPoint Partners' demise is widely attributed to the a major insider-trading scandal that sent one of its top hedge fund managers to prison. But the ...

Carl Icahn is in talks with banks to secure up to $7 billion in bridge loans to finance their proposed leveraged recapitalization of Dell Inc.

A top UBS executive is set to meet with the activist hedge fund seeking the spinoff of its investment bank. read more

North Carolina hedge fund manager Stephen Maiden has admitted running an $8.9 million Ponzi scheme. read more ...

Yves here. While it may seem a bit unfair to make an example of Mark Thoma, since the statement he makes about bank reserves is ...

This Bill Moyers segment gives a welcome view of Gretchen Morgenson recapping the sorry state of the "too big to fail" problem.

I welcome readers telling me I've missed something, but looking at the Fed's problem from 50,000 feet, it appears that the the monetary authority appears ...

The durable goods report for March was a bust, but April’s came back pretty strong. This morning, the Commerce Department said durable goods were up ...

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett We’re back after a short hiatus last week. I was impressed that the stock ...

ECB’s Draghi: ‘Imperative’ to Set Up New Bank Body Japan the Model Apple’s Tax Magic Leaves Irish Bondholders Unmoved In Tax Overhaul Debate, It’s Small ...

After the closing bell, Ross Stores ($ROST) reported first-quarter earnings of $1.07 per share. That’s up 15% from a year ago. Q1 ...

Traders seem a bit nervous today. The big turnaround from yesterday is continuing into this morning. Yesterday’s high for the S&P 500 came at about ...

It’s easy (and often enjoyable) to engage in abstract discussions on any number of topics. When it comes to making investment decisions, however, it’s critical ...

I run a 15-person firm. A consultant come and prepared a growth plan for our future. The number-one recommendation was that I create a role ...

In this our economy, the consumer is in control. What advisors sell is a luxury, and an advisor’s competitive advantage is how he or she ...

If a website is the center of your marketing universe, social media is the gravitational force pulling your audience into the world you’ve created for ...

A source of frustration for many advisors is the amount of time that’s consumed by mundane administrative requests things that clients don’t value and ...

Vacation inequality, it turns out, is an actual problem in the United States.

America's rebuilding needs aren't going away. But the basement-bargain price of rebuilding America is.

The wealthiest schools in the country could have more economic diversity if they wanted it. So why don't they?

Business income is escaping the U.S. corporate income tax. We might not be able to stop it.

Maybe it's time to rethink that whole trope about American optimism. 

The former chief executive of a failed U.S. bank in Norfolk, Virginia, and three others were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and ...

“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of ...

From Expeditors International of Washington’s latest 8-K (after they had also quoted from Ben Stein’s book How To Really Ruin ...

Found via Jon Shayne. This is from Washington Irving’s The Crayon Papers, and there is a lot of investing wisdom packed into this ...

Fund managers don’t like holding cash, but individual investors can and should I wrote last week about ...

From the book Hedge Fund Market Wizards: “As a general observation, markets tend ...

Hugh Hendry, of Eclectica Asset Management, takes the long view on investing at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering on October 25th 2012. He was interviewed by ...

Inflation and Stocks David R. Kotok May 24, 2013     Inflation is not on the radar anymore. We do hear occasional comments from central ...

Succinct Summations for the week ending May 24. Very light data week despite all the noise. Positives: 1. U.S. jobless claims fell 23k to 340k ...

click for ginormous chart Source: Kimble Charting   Awesome chart from Chris Kimble showing the Nikkei going back to 1982 — in particular, the downtrend ...

This is the presentation I gave at the IPI yesterday:

A lesson from Warren Buffett: doubt yourself [WSJ] Jelisavcic: This is an optimal time to invest in distressed ...

Larry Robbins' hedge fund firm Glenview Capital just filed a Form 4 with the SEC regarding shares of Tenet Healthcare (THC).  Per the filing, Glenview ...

Andreas Halvorsen's hedge fund firm Viking Global Investors has filed a 13G with the SEC regarding shares of Intuitive Surgical (ISRG).  Per the filing, Viking ...

Chase Coleman's hedge fund firm Tiger Global filed a 13G with the SEC regarding their position in Carter's (CRI).  Per the filing, Tiger Global has ...

The brand new first quarter issue of our premium Hedge Fund Wisdom newsletter is now available!  Subscribers please login at www.hedgefundwisdom.com to download it.

I am often on a panel or at dinner with Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture), and he will remark, "I am going to have to ...

The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause and ...

Standing at the edge of the old world and the beginning of the new one, at the tip of Portugal, Stratfor's George Friedman is moved ...

"The large shortfall of employment relative to its maximum level has imposed huge burdens on all too many American households and represents a substantial social ...

In a special Outside the Box today, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist for Money Morning, dissects "Abenomics," the radical, not to say outlandish, fiscal moves ...

Jones apologizes for stating 'you'll never see as many great women investors or traders as men, period, end of story'

Stein, Piwowar not prone to partisanship, observers say; plenty of big issues left hanging

The SEC claims a senior equity trader at an RIA made big bucks front running client trades using an account owned by his wife. Andrew ...

Wells Fargo snags a $480M team from Morgan Stanley. | All of Wells' wins over the past 90 days

The Gun Show This week, Twitter launched a shiny new client-friendly TV ad tracking product. But there was a guest of honor at the announcement, ...

Phallic Huntsville. (Photo: Flickr) Who knew? Some of America's ...

Really, though? The entertainment business has gotten wind ...

770 Broadway. (Photo: NYC Office ...

Billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones has apologised for controvertial comments that women with children are "overwhelmed" by breastfeeding and are unable to make rational ...

A survey has shown 20pc of us regret being a hasty home owner.

More and more people are joining the ranks of the self-employed - but it can also make your finances more complicated.

With 'unregulated' assets such as wine there's no comeback if things go wrong.

The decimation of pensions and planned salary cuts promise hard times for the older generation, says Judith Woods

Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM) (TYO:7203) emerged as the top brand in the auto industry based on Brandz Top 100 Global Brands for 2013, as published ...

Post Market News Stocks that were active in the U.S. trading on Friday include Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:SHLD), Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE:ANF), The ...

In the wake of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, the media giant appears to have its wallet open once again ...

Edward Lampert, the hedge fund manager of ESL Investments and current chief executive officer of Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) incurred approximately $639 million in losses from ...

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) shares have risen consistently despite billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman calling it a pyramid scheme and placing a $1 billion short bet. ...

Due to cheaper labor overseas, "Made in America" has been a fading label for decades. The dangers posed by offshore manufacturing came to tragic light ...

When ill health and political gridlock forced Shinzo Abe to quit after one dismal year as Japan's prime minister, his pride was dented and his ...

The workplace can be tough enough without worrying whether your manager is really sick or just goofing off, or whether that document was really sent to ...

When the Obama administration went public with the first-ever comprehensive data on disparities in hospital billing last week, we knew it would be a game ...

After a long day of slogging through the woods, Arkansas hunters used to have to check in their game at the nearest mom-and-pop establishment. At ...

Feel like kicking yourself over an obscenely-profitable missed opportunity? Of course you do! This is breathtaking – - a gain of about one-thousand percent in ...

I last wrote about Japan’s Nikkei e-mini Futures Index (NDX) on February 8th. Since then, price rallied a staggering 4850 points to a high of 16020 (reached earlier this week) and promptly ...

I have an abiding affection for shorting Abercrombie & Fitch, and I have done quite a few posts about it. This morning brought the latest ...

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Today's financial recap and tomorrow's financial outlook.  

The show's promotional banana stands attracted long lines in major cities, which made us wonder: Could the frozen banana become a mass market product?

Economics, earnings reports, and market events for the week ahead. 

Today's financial recap and tomorrow's financial outlook.  

On-again, off-again gains should take a higher profile now, if the rally is valid.

The following was sent out to the Walker community about our most recent incident;

Faber:In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the ...

Alan Abelson has died. He was 87 years old. He started writing his column for Barron's in 1966 and kept writing up until a couple ...

A very funny post where Barry Ritholtz chronicles the vast history of big calls by Donald Luskin. Here is just one, click through ...

"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."- Henry David Thoreau Watching with interest ...

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, ...

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age." - Marcus Tullius Cicero A regular economic activity ...

What - Me Worry: "As an interrogatory, indicative of a nonchalant attitude towards potential criticism, not caring about what other ...

"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear." - C. ...

Social Media Examiner has just released its annual Social Media Marketing report. It reveals some interesting data about this year’s social media marketing trends. The ...

Every now and again, a political pundit is required to stand up and admit to the world that he or she got it wrong.

Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch just announced that same-store sales fell 15% in the first quarter and blamed inventory shortages. But, unless you've been living ...

Paramount screened World War Z on Wednesday night to a packed crowd in New Jersey along with a smaller celebrity-packed gathering at the MoMA in New ...

After Google’s I/O announcements, I flashed back to a dozen or so conversations I've had with executives and entrepreneurs about what Google is doing. Reading between the ...

It is becoming increasingly clear that retirement in American has fundamentally changed.

Is Apple’s next generation of iPad getting a new microphone?

Shares etched out a jagged path this week...

What investors need to know...

What investors need to know...

Technology and regulators have been unable to break down relatively high property sale fees, but the sector’s downturn just might succeed where others have failed

Lydia, 52, is looking to cut spending as she ponders job retraining and possibly relocating her family ...

Bond ETFs have a lot going for them, but judged purely as generators of investment income, they cannot claim supremacy over individual bonds

Three members of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System have put forward measure, one of many on the table

Rather than endless hearings of the deaf, the PQ government needs to put on its pants, make an informed decision and live with it

In Part I of a three-part article, guest columnist John Bhadki looks at the health of venture capital.

Under the Dodd-Frank Act, and the implementing rules now approved by the CFTC, trades that aren't "large notional swaps" are to be reported more rapidly ...

Alternative investments have always been the home of innovation. Guest columnist Sourabh Jeswani looks at parking lots as the latest innovation in the Indian real ...

Under standard portfolio theory assumptions, it takes three times longer to recover from the maximum draw-down for a particular strategy than it does to get ...

A new report by PrevInvest, the "Investment Outlook & Hedge Fund Strategies Insight Report," focuses on the consequences of the race to the bottom among ...

$$$ Fifth Executive at SAC Capital Receives Subpoena [BusinessWeek / Sheelah Kolhatkar] $$$ Tudor’s Jones Apologizes for Remarks on Female Traders [Bloomberg] $$$ Goldman Sachs ...

SeaWorld Entertainment’s Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin attraction, opening today at ...

Gary Gensler is very close to getting his wish to not be CFTC chairman anymore. As for his wish for a better job than CFTC ...

So they raided it, as part of a totally non-retaliatory tax investigation. So non-retaliatory, in fact, that the federal tax agency felt it could casually ...

We’re going to guess that the options exchanges being sued by Citadel and three other firms plan to dispute the following statement. “There is no ...

Stocks are off to a lackluster start Friday as investors sell on QE tapering indications. Click to view a price quote on ^DJI.

DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach says in an exclusive interview that his portfolio owns Apple, and the stock is priced for no new products. Click to ...

Many homeowners can't afford to sell their homes, constraining supply and prompting a rise in home prices.

Lafley may not find it so easy to repeat his previous success. Click to view a price quote on PG. Click to ...

Google is the biggest company in the U.S. without a dividend, but that may change. Click to view a price quote on AAPL. ...

REITs have been the best performing major asset class since the market bottom in 2009, up over 200%.   What are the current drivers of ...

Fun question and answer session with the folks at Index U.  

I am going to do a longer piece on this topic later this week, but wanted to announce that the eBook is now out!  It’s ...

The Ira Sohn conference is running with a great list of speakers, I attended last year and am sad to miss – it  is a ...

We did a post the other day that combined simple value and trend systems into a portfolio that resulted in much lower volatility and drawdowns. ...

I'm doing the 5pm CNBC Fast Money show tonight from Times Square and then it's off for a long weekend with the wife and kids ...

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Via google translate from Corriere Della Sera, Beppe Grillo is in favor of a "Referendum on the Euro Within a year" "Europe ...

Some common sense discussion is taking place in Spain regarding the necessity of Spain exiting the eurozone. For example, please consider Opposition ...

Greece was supposed to get it's debt to GDP ratio to 100% by 2012, then 100% by 2013, then 110% by 2014. Now Jeroen Dijsselbloem, ...

Reader Tim Wallace took note of Bernanke's testimony on jobs (see Bernanke's Semi-Annual Tap-Dance of Distortions, Half-truths, Lies, and Hypocrisy to U.S. Congress) ...

Here's some news that caught my eye earlier today when I was on the road: The Markit Flash France PMI® shows French private sector ...

Alternative ETFs assets are up 32 percent year-to-date, outpacing gains in all other asset classes, thanks to demand for VXX.

The launch of a new Germany ETF will also be the shutdown of a hedged Canada fund.

The world’s biggest ETF firm’s first fund shutdown since 2002 will be a done deal ...

India-focused ETFs declined in the week ending Thursday, May 23, while natural gas rallied.

SPY fueled SSgA outflows on Thursday, May 23, while overall outflows pushed U.S.-listed ETF assets down to $1.523 trillion. Markets fell.

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Bottom Line: It’s been a rough ride for Namibia explorers but this week explorers announced their first oil discovery, and while it’s not commercially viable, ...

Bottom Line: The EU’s new offshore oil and gas exploration legislation is designed to prevent another Gulf of Mexico incident and will force explorers to ...

Again, US natural gas exports; the fate of Keystone XL; a few misses in the hunt for the next Bakken; an upcoming interview you don’t ...

While the hints over the past weeks have favored expanded US natural gas exports, the confirmation of Energy Security Ernest Moniz has delayed a final ...

Energy companies flocked to Poland after a 2011 US Department of Energy report estimated its shale gas reserves as perhaps the largest in Europe, 22.5 ...

The IBD 50 index fell for the first time in five weeks, as some of its stocks slid back near or below their buy points. ...

Stocks slipped in drowsy volume Friday in the run-up to the three-day holiday weekend. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%, while the Dow rose 0.1%. The ...

What makes a first-rate company stand out from the rest? Innovation. Plastics maker PolyOne's (POL) R&D efforts have pushed the company to the cutting edge ...

Findlay, Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum (MPC) is one of the country's biggest independent petroleum refiners and marketers in the U.S., running seven refineries. It's also one ...

Last week's market slide, the first in five weeks, was a wake-up call in several respects. One, it showed that bull runs need breaks. Pullbacks ...

European markets closed in the red while US markets are trading lower, adding to yesterday’s losses, as investors remained cautious amid continued speculation that the ...

Facebook (FB) has been under pressure since it peaked at 29.07 in early May. It closed yesterday at 25.06 rejecting the important March 27 low ...

The JPY crosses remain nervous – will NZDJPY follow AUDJPY in tripping through the next layers of support. The near term momentum suggests risks of ...

This trade is for those that are not convinced by the USD bullishness we are currently seeing in the market and thus attempts to revert ...

China's PMI numbers from yesterday should not be taken out of the larger context. We are heading for a bump in the road, but there ...

The KWN Weekly Metals Wrap - We have added new segments to the KWN Weekly Metals Wrap covering gold, silver, trading and a plethora of ...

James Grant: Founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer & Acclaimed Author - James Grant originated the "Current Yield" column in Barron's before founding Grant's Interest ...

Michael Pento: President of Pento Portfolio Strategies - Michael is a well-established specialist in the “Austrian School” of economics. A regular on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox ...

Egon von Greyerz (EvG): Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG & GoldSwitzerland - EvG forecasted the current economic problems over 10 years ...

Andrew Maguire: Whistleblower & Independent London Metals Trader - Andrew has 30 years trading experience, both as an institutional and independent trader. He is an ...

Sponsored Post Over the past 2 years, MicroVentures has reviewed over 2,000 companies and through its rigorous review process, filtered the prospective list ...

The Department of Homeland Security found a vulnerability in one of its vendor's software solutions that keeps information on background check investigations.

Peter Thiel's late-stage venture firm Mithril Capital Management has just hired two space industry experts to evaluate opportunities.

Yahoo has officially placed a bid to acquire popular video streaming service Hulu, along with Time Warner Cable, Amazon, Guggenheim Digital Media, and former News ...

It's all sunshine and lollipops over in Windows Phone land today.

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Market emotions ranged from euphoria to worry for the week ended May 22. The DJIA and S&P 500 hit new highs but there was sobering ...

Iowa-based Casey’s General Stores operates about 1,700 convenience stores in 11 Midwestern states. It’s facing declining margins, higher input costs and an increasingly competitive environment ...

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Record net inflows of $83 billion through the end of April helped to push assets invested globally in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded ...

While the S&P 500 has been speeding toward new highs, the Dow Jones Transportation ETF (IYT.N) is really burning up the fast lane. So is ...

Despite desperate pleas from top Syrian insurgents, Western leaders remain reluctant to arm them. Though the European embargo is set to expire at the end ...

An American couple has found a surprising alternative to conventional asphalt motorways: solar road panels. In addition to providing electricity, saving oil and melting fresh ...

In Berlin, you can carry 15 grams of marijuana. In Munich? Just six. To ease any confusion, German states are now trying to hash out ...

With the all-German Champions League final coming up, fans around the world are marveling at the rise of the country's football might. Successful reforms within ...

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Reading hedge fund giant Paul Tudor Jones’ recent comments that having babies makes women bad traders reminded me of a close friend of mine, a ...

Kmart surprised consumers everywhere recently with the “Ship My Pants” ad, a viral juvenile-humor hit viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube since being ...

For many consumers, electric vehicle ownership has been a nonstarter for purely financial reasons. The math indicated that the money one saved in gas from ...

(WASHINGTON) —  U.S. orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rebounded in April, buoyed by more demand for aircraft and stronger business investment. The gains suggest economic growth ...

Is the U.S. back? That’s the big question in the global economy right now. Earlier this week, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that he’d ...

I spend more time than I probably should exchanging views with other market participants, most of whom are friends. It can take up a ...

There is zero correlation between the Fed printing and the money supply. If you don’t believe this, you owe it to yourself to study ...

I’ve written a couple of times already about the yield spread between 2s and 10s being an excellent contemporaneous indicator of risk appetite in equities. Macro guys ...

This is the question I always fantasize an insightful CNBC interviewer will ask of his/her guest after the guest offhandedly mumbles something about ‘the ...

by Mark Dow and Michael Sedacca Few would still argue against the assertion that the Federal Reserve has been central to the financial stabilization ...

* With high-powered endorsers like Merryl Tisch and Dick Ravitch in his corner, insiders are expecting Bill Thompson to ...

A powerful union representing hotel workers is stepping up a campaign to ensure that all new hotels built in east midtown are open to having ...

Crain Communications Inc., publisher of Crain's New York Business and more than a dozen other publications, including ...

One day soon, New Yorkers might be able to buy a fancy umbrella or ...

Credit conditions and confidence improved for small businesses in the tri-state area in 2012, compared with the previous year, despite challenges posed by Superstorm Sandy, ...

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Now that no-one (FED, ECB, SPX, EURUSD, etc.) is leading the way, global markets are taking their cue from the Nikkei. Funny. ...

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Sometimes, it's just not a good time to get divorced. That's the problem apparently frustrating four-time NBA champion Tim Duncan, who has reportedly asked a...

Despite a near-constant flow of customers at its Huntington Beach storefront, Patient Med Aid struggles with many of the most basic business tasks. It can't...

The Justice Department is objecting to a proposed $20 million severance payment for American Airlines CEO Tom Horton, saying it's bigger than allowed by bankruptcy...

In 2013, the stakes are higher than ever to get the console right. No longer is there a minor battle between Sony and Microsoft to ...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed five bills Thursday, the first to reach her desk since she vowed to veto all legislation until the state...

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“He proposed a centi-million dollar dome over downtown”. Who is, Don Atchison. -> I’ll take “CRAZY CANADIAN MAYORS” for $1,000, Alex. I’m aces at that ...

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America's population is graying, and the baby boomer generation is working later into life, partly to make up for financial losses.

The nation's largest provider of the routers and switches that direct data, voice and video traffic on the Internet appears on an MSN Money list ...

Using the Web to stock your pantry can save you time, money and hassle.

The number of children you have makes an obvious impact on your finances. When you have a kid matters, too.

Internships can be a big help to both businesses and permanent job-seekers, but they should be handled with care.

If a natural disaster strikes your home, here's how to get quick attention from your home insurer.

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Cheapism provides a guide to which retailers have the best guarantees. 

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A look at tips from a few of our favorite personal finance bloggers about how to control your spending and make smart buying decisions.

How can we accurately model the African HIV/AIDS epidemic? This column presents new research that uses computational general equilibrium models to map the spread of ...

The ECB’s recent survey on household finances and consumption threw up some unexpected results – counter-intuitively, the average German household has less wealth than the ...

Since the double-digit inflation of the 1970s, central banks have sought to reduce inflation and keep it low. This column argues that recent history teaches ...

A pernicious aspect of the Eurozone crisis is the ‘doom loop’ linking European banks and governments. This column argues that poor European policy choices in ...

The ‘manufacturing matters’ movement has gained prominence on the policy agenda even as the nature of manufacturing continues to morph. This column discusses new research ...

The success of any revolution requires, as Kurt Vonnegut writes in Bluebeard, three types of specialists. Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most ...

Clive James’s new translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy had me wondering, what he was like? This is Broccaccio’s account of Dante as found in Dante ...

I bet you’d like to read more this summer. Wouldn’t we all. Well, stop talking about it and start finding some books already. Here is ...

Neil Gaiman, gave one of the best commencement speeches ever. It was so good, it was one of the top posts on Farnam Street in ...

One of the keys to getting smarter is to read a lot. But that’s not enough. Reading is only one part of the equation. We’re ...

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Inexpensive videos can sell products, but you've got to know what works (and what doesn't).

A.G Lafley is back as the CEO of P&G (nothing like the day before an American holiday weekend to announce a leadership change at a ...

Never underestimate the value of a great receiver.

Every penny counts. But there is a growing debate on how closely you should be tracking how those pennies are spent and saved—and which ...

As the dust settles after the 7.3% plunge in Japan's stock market, it's worth remembering that many small investors probably have a lot more money ...

High-net worth and ultra-high-net worth investors are more confident about their financial status, but there are still some areas where they are financially unprepared, according ...

In James Dimon's win to keep the chairmanship at J.P. Morgan, most major institutional shareholders have declined to say how they voted. But it's worth ...

it isn't uncommon for pension funds or endowments to take a minority ownership in startup money managers to whom they provide "seed capital."

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The DJIA had been threatened with its first 3 day losing streak of the year but a rally in the closing minutes pushed that index ...

Thursday could be described as "dip buyers show up again". After the outside day yesterday on the major indexes, global markets showed a lot ...

In Monday's recap we wrote, in regard to Bernanke's testimony Wednesday:The fact we are going into that testimony on such a huge run and at ...

It was a Tuesday in 2013. Thus the market was up. Simple enough. We've seen a remarkable streak of 19 up Tuesdays ...

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The Ifo business climate index rebounded markedly from 104.4 in April to 105.7 in May, well above expectations as the consensus was for an unchanged ...

On more than one occasion in recent Perspectives articles, we have alluded to the 3GDs and our definitions of what they are. They describe three ...

The TOPIX share index is up 34% for the year to date. This powerful rally does beg two questions though: How much more upside potential ...

Equity markets in Europe and the US look in need of some fresh catalysts to extend their rallies whereas Japan still seems to have more ...

Monthly data published at the end of last week confirmed that the federal budget deficit has fallen very rapidly. Over the first seven months of fiscal ...

Stability in the Japanese government bond market is “extremely desirable,” said Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda in a sign of just how frazzled he ...

Like so many debacles in the EU, it started with the unelected European Commission. It’s immune to voters, but not to lobbyists and corporations. Under ...

Contributed by Chriss Street: Premier Washington DC criminal attorney William W. Taylor III of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP announced that his new client Lois G. Lerner, ...

No one accused Apple of having violated US tax laws. The Senate hearings merely exposed how Apple is dodging income taxes by doing what multinationals ...

The issue of inflation is complex everywhere. Official rates are disputed. People can’t reconcile them with what they see at the store. There ...