The ink was not yet dry on the seemingly endless Monsanto-Syngenta on again/off again takeover drama, when moments ago in a shocking development the newswires were lit up with news that a new, and ver...
Private nonfarm payrolls in the US are projected to increase by 231,000 (seasonally adjusted) in January over the previous month in tomorrow’s update of the ADP Employment Report, based on The Capit...
Q4 earnings for Google’s (GOOG) parent company, Alphabet surprised everyone yesterday. While the market value of Apple (AAPL) has steadily been decreasing since mid-2015, the market value of Alphabe...
CoreLogic’s Home Price Index (HPI) shows that home prices in the USA are up 6.3 % year-over-year year-over-year (reported up 0.8 % month-over-month). Last month’s 6.3% year-over-year gain ...
The Japanese Yen inched higher during the Asian trading session, helped along by yet another decline in the price of oil which weighed on sentiment in risk appetite. Analysts feel that today’s marke...
When people hear the world “armageddon” there are usually certain images the minds eye begins seeing. For each person it is probably little different with one exception. For the most part,...
The EC draft proposals in response to the UK’s demands have been enthusiastically embraced by Prime Minister Cameron. The wires quote Cameron as saying “I would opt in to EU membership on t...
I often take the Amtrak train back to my hometown in New England and sometimes I’m fortunate to sit beside some pretty interesting people. Incidentally, on one trip the Deputy Comptroller of Cit...
The squeeze higher in oil prices last week amid renewed speculation that key producers would convene to discuss potential output cuts caught many market participants by surprise especially in light...
Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1 – Young People Don’t Like Hillary. The craziest thing about last night’s Iowa Caucus was the disparity on the Democratic side. Hillary Cl...