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It’s Monday Again: Cancer Pharma M&A, Luxe retailers Sales reports and a higher GDP clip 26 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
CNBC’s “Breaking News mode” (Note: The screenshot comes from CNBC Asia, so the style of the top bug and the ticker are different from the package of CNBC US). This “Breaking News” graphic (from 2007) ...
Why High Schools Still Need Government Funding 20 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
Photo Credit: 123RF Historically, high schools have been funded primarily by local government agencies. State-level government provided minor financial support, and the federal government did not sig...
It’s Monday again: The Currency wars are definitely not data driven (US Economy & Markets, The week ahead August 19, 2013 – August 23, 2013) 19 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
And the Euro could be the unwitting player being forced to win despite the ECB wanting it to settle at lower 1.30 levels . Of course Euro long positions would aver, argue or rationalise against the ri...
It’s Monday Again: Taxes are good for everyone, the new iPhone a precursor of a cheery Holidays (US Economy and Markets: the week ahead August 12, 201... 13 Aug 2013 | 06:23 am
The banks are of course back with a bang. This year’s 25% jump in Financial sector stocks led by the start of the year run in Citi and BofA still puts them behind Consumer discretionary and Healthcare...
It’s Monday again!: Economic Recovery strength in the second half greatly exaggerated ( US Economy & Markets:: August 05- August 09, 2013) 5 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
The ISM Services indices, comparable to PMIs in other geographies, jumped to 56 even as the sub indices for unemployment followed the declining numbers on the Employment situation Report on Friday and...
Fed FOMC Statement – Pre QE withdrawal – July 31, 2013 31 Jul 2013 | 11:53 pm
Even as Janet Yellen moves closer to her goal, Larry Summers is not far behind as the insider making the claim to the Fed throne. Meanwhile the FOMC statement released brings out two part clause addit...
It’s MoNDaY aGaiN: Cleveland OH, St. Louis MO , Omaha NE and Los Angeles CA (US Economy& Markets: July 29 – August 02, 2013) 29 Jul 2013 | 06:11 pm
One would say these area few of my favorite things, but from a report in September 2012 (Business Week) these are among the nation’s top 50 but barely with Anchorage AL, richer by 60% per Capita than ...
Misery in Motor City: What Happened in Detroit? – our new series from Guest Author Maxime Reiman 26 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
Detroit skyline (Photo credit: Bernt Rostad) Detroit is not the first city to file for bankruptcy, but it is the largest to do so in American history. People unfamiliar with the situation may be wond...
The mid-week trading update($F, $SBUX, $FB, $LLY, $AMZN): Not to deprive you of your coffee buzz in the A.M. (July 24th and 25th, 2013) 26 Jul 2013 | 07:23 pm
Regular Starbucks Coffee tumbler, as sold in 2011 in France. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This edition of the mid week trading update was well lost to some great results we were collecting on; Ford,...
It’s Monday Again!- Brazil sets off Dollar’s return on the wrong foot, but EMs it seems to be (July 22-July 26, 2013 – US Economy & Markets) 22 Jul 2013 | 06:25 pm
Firstly, it wasn’t us to blame for not starting you off on Monday the last 2-3 weeks as we did deliver the Bank results and well, you have nit been writing much back. The month is about to close howev...
