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General Business - Posted 2010-07-29 08:16:00 Many Economists Turning More Pessimistic on US Economy According to the latest quarterly "AP Economy Survey", a number of leading economists believe that the US economy will grow slower than previously expected. The AP survey compiles "forecasts of leading private, corporate and academic economists". While short-term forecasts for economic growth in the US have turned decidedly more negative over the past three months, many of the economists feature...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-28 13:46:00 Homeownership Rate in United States at Lowest Level Since 1999 On October 15th, 2002, President George W. Bush said: "We can put light where there's darkness, and hope where there's despondency in this country. And part of it is working together as...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-27 08:08:00 Tony Hayward Officially Out as CEO of BP In conjunction with the release of their Q2 earnings numbers, BP announced earlier this morning that current CEO Tony Hayward has agreed to step down from his post on October 1st. BP M...Full Story Posted July 21st, 2010 8:18 am EST Apple Sells 3.27 Million iPads in Q3 Remember when a number of people in the media were panning Apple's new iPad device, saying that the company had finally misse... Full Story Posted June 29th, 2010 4:00 am EST Big Day For Tesla As The Company Finally Goes Public It's been a while since the markets have had an initial public offering (IPO) to get excited about, ... Full Story Posted June 19th, 2010 7:40 pm EST Nevada Now Leads Nation With 14.0% Unemployment The May state unemployment numbers were released by the BLS (Bureau of Labor Services) earlier this ... Full Story Posted June 8th, 2010 9:29 pm EST Chinacast Education (CAST) Popular With Institutional Investors Last Quarter Chinacast Education (CAST) was a popular stock last quarter amongst the 97 institutional investors (... Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-24 04:25:00 103 Bank Failures This Year and Counting Regulators closed 7 banks in 7 different states this week, bringing the total number of bank failures in 2010 up to 103. This marks the second straight year that the United States will...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-23 23:28:00 Another Trillion Dollar Plus Deficit Is Coming in 2011 The White House revealed today that contrary to previously released official projections, the federal budget deficit will be higher than $1.4 trillion in both 2010 and 2011. Now, every...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-22 03:41:00 Estimated $3.7 Trillion in Taxpayer Dollars Have Been Committed By US To Support Financial System Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Neil Barofsky released a report earlier this week that claimed that the "outstanding balance of overall Federal support for the na...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-21 03:37:00 State Unemployment Rates for June According to the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics), 39 states posted a drop in their unemployment rate in June. This data is not really surprising, given that the national unemployment rate dropped fro...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-20 03:33:00 Nevada's Unemployment Rate Continues to Tick Higher According to various media reports, Nevada's unemployment rate ticked up to 14.2% in June, up from May's rate of 14.0%. Nevada now has the "distinction" of possessing the highest unempl...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-19 00:19:00 Sign of the Times: Delta Air Lines Expecting 65,000 Applications for 1,000 Job Openings According to a recent article on Bloomberg.com (link below), Delta Air Lines Inc. is expecting to receive 65,000 applications for its 1,000 airport job openings. Delta said that the ne...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-17 19:03:00 Federal Reserve Officials: Waiting For the US Economy To Get Back to Normal? Don’t Hold Your Breath Earlier this week, the already-jittery markets were rattled when the minutes of the June 22-23 FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) were released. During these meetings, Federal Reserv...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-15 11:48:00 Goldman Sachs Scores Big Victory With $550 Million Settlement Could a $550 million settlement actually be good news for a company? In the case of Goldman Sachs, yes. Shares of Goldman Sachs were sent soaring earlier today after word...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-15 03:42:00 Britain: Surprise! We Have 4.95 Trillion Pounds of Debt, Not 903 Billion According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Britain’s national debt currently stands at around 4.95 trillion pounds, which is about five times more than previously released official estimat...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-14 06:59:00 US Federal Deficits By Year, 1940-2010 The Treasury Department announced on Tuesday that the federal deficit has already topped $1 trillion with three months left to go in the budget year. This is down slightly from the sam...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-13 00:41:00 President Obama’s Debt Commission: "This Debt Is Like a Cancer" Earlier this year, President Obama signed an executive order that created a “debt and deficit commission” that would be charged with figuring out how to deal with sky-high deficits and a steadily incr...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-10 19:55:00 Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Is On The Rise According to Informationweek.com (via Experian Hitwise), Microsoft’s Bing search engine captured 9.85% of all US searches in June, up from 9.23% the month before. Google, which is the ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-09 01:16:00 Is John Paulson's Magical Streak About To Come To An End? Thanks to a particularly gutsy bet against the US subprime mortgage market in 2007, John Paulson became the world's most famous hedge fund manager (and one of the richest as well). Paul...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-08 00:33:00 Tesla Motors Continues To Wilt After Impressive IPO Debut It wasn’t that long ago when it would have cost you over $30 to buy one share of Tesla Motors (TSLA). As a matter of fact - it was only last week. As years of slow buil...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-06 21:16:00 The Incredible Growth of Outstanding Consumer Credit In The United States Over The Past 40 Years According to the Federal Reserve, there was a total of $128.3 billion in total outstanding consumer credit in the United States in April of 1970. Of this total, $124.0 billion was in n...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-05 19:10:00 Fears of a "Double Dip Recession" Are Rising Practically every piece of economic data that has been released over the past month or so says the same thing - the tepid economic recovery is starting to slow. Factory orders are fall...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-07-02 20:14:00 June Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.5% - That’s Good, Right? Earlier today, the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) reported that the national unemployment rate edged down to 9.5% in June. This number came as a surprise, as many were predicting tha...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-30 23:17:00 BP Using The Internet To Perform Damage Control If you do a search for "oil spill" (or something similar) on either Google or Yahoo!, you will likely be greeted by a paid advertisement from BP. These ads point to a Youtube.com page ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-30 05:21:00 Elon Musk's Crazy Ride When the "Iron Man" movie franchise was first being conceived by Jon Favreau, he reportedly wasn't sure how to make the main character, Tony Stark, "come to life." Favreau asked Robert ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-28 17:18:00 June Unemployment Rate Expected To Tick Up to 9.8% According to a group of economists that were polled by Reuters, the national unemployment rate is expected to tick up to 9.8% when the June job numbers are released later this week. So...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-27 05:37:00 Which Institutional Investors Had The Best and Worst Timing on BP? As you are probably already aware, BP started to melt down shortly after the end of the first quarter. Since March 31st, 2010, BP's share price has fallen over 50%, and tens of billion...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-25 19:12:00 Which Institutional Holders Are Taking a Beating on BP? To say that BP shareholders are taking a beating is an understatement of epic proportions. At the end of March, BP was trading at around $57 per share, which was close to its 52 week h...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-24 04:05:00 WSJ Poll: Pessimism On The Rise On November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. Obama hammered opponent John McCain in the election, propelled to power by an election platform that pro...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-22 23:26:00 Sell in May and Go Away? There is an old saying in the stock market that goes: “Sell in May and Go Away” The saying means that an investor should consider selling all of their stocks in May, only...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-22 05:53:00 Have Republican or Democrat Presidents Been Better For The Markets Over the Past 50 Years? Another question that people e-mail us to ask all the time is - do the markets tend to perform better when a Democrat or Republican president is in the White House? We went back to 1960...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-21 04:20:00 US Government Spending Increases By President, 1961-2012 A number of people emailed after I posted “Some US Government Spending Statistics From 1960 to 2010” yesterday, asking if I could break down the numbers by president. In 1961, the Unit...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-20 07:28:00 Some US Government Spending Statistics From 1960 to 2010 Over the past 50 years, which political party in the United States (Democrats or Republicans) has increased total government expenditures at a faster rate? To answer this question, I d...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-19 01:03:00 An Incomplete History of US Government Spending While the “Great Recession” was in full bloom (fall of 2008), most people didn’t really care about the amount of money that the United States government was committing to help pull the country out of ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-18 05:23:00 Apple Continues to Close the Gap on Exxon Mobil Less than 18 months ago, the idea of Apple being worth more than Exxon Mobil would have been completely laughable. After all, in January of 2009, Apple was trading for less than $100 p...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-06-16 04:27:00 China, Japan Continue To Boost Holdings of US Debt China and Japan, who are the two largest foreign holders of US Treasury debt, continued to add to their already substantial holdings in April according to the US Treasury Department. 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