The Federal Open Market Committee meeting on April 24-25, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's comments during the post-meeting press conference, and an advance reading on U.S. gross domestic product in the first quarter will dominate the economic calendar next week.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Moran Zhang
Hopes of government-sponsored bailouts rescued global markets once again this week, sending equities higher worldwide on Friday.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Hao Li
Upbeat economic reports from Britain and Germany combined with surprisingly strong first-quarter earnings reports in the U.S. to foster a risk-on sentiment that lifted stocks and commodities while weighing on safe-haven investments.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Many U.S. manufacturing firms that run Chinese plants are considering bringing those operations back home because -- in many cases -- it makes more economic sense to do so than to keep them abroad, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey of business executives released on Friday.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Eleazar David Meléndez
Earnings season is in full swing, and about 80 percent of the companies that have already reported topped estimates. We ran a screen and produced a list of 50 key companies set to report their earnings between April 23 and 27.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Moran Zhang
Australia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK have agreed to contribute a combined $41 billion to the International Monetary Fund reserve to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 by Bhaskar Prasad
Ron Paul's goal of reforming America's domestic and foreign policies while investigating the Federal Reserve may be a long way from happening in real life, but a new online video game set to come out for free in several months will offer Libertarians everywhere to give the Fed what it deserves in a game called "Ron Paul: Road To Revolution.".
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Jacob Kleinman
Mitt Romney, the newly minted presumptive GOP presidential nominee, sought to rally Republican Party officials around his campaign Friday with a speech tearing into President Barack Obama and his economic record.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Dan Rivoli
Legos for girls, being marketed by the Danish Lego Group under the brand name Lego Friends, have come under fire recently for perpetrating gender stereotypes.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
The EPA's final verdict is that private water sources in the town of Dimock, to the northeast of the state, do not show levels of contaminants that warrant further concern.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Pierre Bertrand
Australia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK have agreed to contribute a combined $41 billion to the International Monetary Fund reserve to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 by Bhaskar Prasad
A strong magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck close to the Indonesian coast on Saturday at 10:17 a.m. local time (Friday at 8:17 p.m. EDT), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by J.J. McGrath
Ron Paul's goal of reforming America's domestic and foreign policies while investigating the Federal Reserve may be a long way from happening in real life, but a new online video game set to come out for free in several months will offer Libertarians everywhere to give the Fed what it deserves in a game called "Ron Paul: Road To Revolution.".
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Jacob Kleinman
Mitt Romney, the newly minted presumptive GOP presidential nominee, sought to rally Republican Party officials around his campaign Friday with a speech tearing into President Barack Obama and his economic record.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Dan Rivoli
Legos for girls, being marketed by the Danish Lego Group under the brand name Lego Friends, have come under fire recently for perpetrating gender stereotypes.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
Australia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK have agreed to contribute a combined $41 billion to the International Monetary Fund reserve to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 by Bhaskar Prasad
Bill Ackman and Sam Zell spoke Thursday at the NYU Shack Institute's annual REIT conference.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Roland Li
The Federal Open Market Committee meeting on April 24-25, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's comments during the post-meeting press conference, and an advance reading on U.S. gross domestic product in the first quarter will dominate the economic calendar next week.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Moran Zhang
Mitt Romney, the newly minted presumptive GOP presidential nominee, sought to rally Republican Party officials around his campaign Friday with a speech tearing into President Barack Obama and his economic record.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Dan Rivoli
Disturbing jobless-claims data, mixed retail-sales figures, and uninspiring housing numbers all combined to deliver a mixed-to-negative picture of the economy this past week. That makes it the third straight week economic indicators have been mostly on the negative side.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Eleazar David Meléndez
Twin brothers in the U.K. allegedly defrauded about 75,000 investors by telling them a stock-picking robot named "Marl" could identify penny stocks that would double in price while the brothers were simply listing stocks they were paid to promote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged on Friday.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Benjamin Reeves
Bill Ackman and Sam Zell spoke Thursday at the NYU Shack Institute's annual REIT conference.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Roland Li
The EPA's final verdict is that private water sources in the town of Dimock, to the northeast of the state, do not show levels of contaminants that warrant further concern.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Pierre Bertrand
Rich Ross, Disney's studio chairman, has resigned after the entertainment company took a huge hit with the movie "John Carter."
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Lauren Holter
Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB), which makes Scott brand tissues, reported on Friday an increase in revenue and profits in its first quarter as cost-cutting and a boost in overseas sales made up for slow growth in the domestic market.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Joseph Orovic
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with "Avatar" director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled next week.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Twin brothers in the U.K. allegedly defrauded about 75,000 investors by telling them a stock-picking robot named "Marl" could identify penny stocks that would double in price while the brothers were simply listing stocks they were paid to promote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged on Friday.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Benjamin Reeves
After a strong first quarter, Wall Street has gotten a case of the jitters.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Rodrigo Campos and Ryan Vlastelica
While the new iPad "3" is an incredible device, one of the major drawbacks of Apple's third-generation tablet is the battery life. The HyperJuice Stand promises an additional 16 hours of battery life, but is it a great product? My full review.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Dave Smith
Labor groups at bankrupt American Airlines said on Friday they support a potential merger with rival US Airways Group Inc in a deal they say would save more jobs than a plan by parent AMR Corp to reorganize as a stand-alone carrier.
Friday, April 20, 2012 by Kyle Peterson and Karen Jacobs
Jitters eased briefly today supported by improved business climate or sentiment In Germany, in addition to overwhelmingly good retail sales figure from the U.K. And amid confident expectations that the global community will meet the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demand for at least 400 billion d.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Statistics Canada today reported that consumer price index in March was at 0.4 percent, unchanged from the previous month and below median estimates of 0.5 percent. CPI in the year ended March fell to 1.9 percent from 2.6 percent, below 2.0 percent estimated.Core CPI, a less volatile measure which e.
Friday, April 20, 2012
The index of Canada\'s leading indicators rose 0.4 percent in March, comapred with 0.7 percent (revised from 0.6 percent) in February and slighty missing medain estimates of 0.5 percent.
Friday, April 20, 2012
The Department of Education (DoE) said that default on student loans climbed to 7.0 percent in fiscal 2008, up from 6.7 percent in the prior fiscal year - yet another manifestation of the sluggish economy and bleak jobs market. .
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Palash R. Ghosh
Big brother China has beaten India for the first time in the number of students to US management schools.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The share of foreign students coming to the United States has been going down every year since 2000, shows a study released by an international body comprising the developed nations of the world.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
If there is one single benefit to the US due to the recession, it is that more people are studying in colleges than ever.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The recession has caused all sorts of difficulties for CFOs: falling earnings, tumbling stock prices and, occasionally, knotty negotiations with lenders.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Irvine, California-based Fisker Automotive will debut the first factory-built Karma at the upcoming 2010 Paris Motor Show this October.
Friday, October 01, 2010
BMW is voluntarily recalling 350,000 cars worldwide due to a possible brake problems that the world's biggest premium carmaker said have not caused any accidents.
Friday, October 01, 2010
General Motors Co posted an annual sales gain of 10.5 percent in September amid evidence that the U.S. auto market remained stuck in a slow-moving recovery at the start of the fourth quarter.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Top automakers finally have electric cars ready to purr into dealer showrooms. Now the question is whether the charging infrastructure and electricity supply are up to the task.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Europe's luxury carmakers fear no double-dip thanks to a fresh supply of wealthy customers in emerging markets who have just earned enough money to buy their first Mercedes-Benz or Ferrari.
Friday, October 01, 2010
A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States edged up in September from a month ago and was 16 percent above the reading from a year ago.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
U.S. private employers unexpectedly shed jobs in September, reinforcing the belief that the U.S. Federal Reserve will embark on another round of monetary policy stimulus to support the economic recovery as early as next month.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Private employers unexpectedly cut 39,000 jobs in September after adding an upwardly revised 10,000 jobs in August, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
U.S. Treasury debt prices climbed on Wednesday, pushing benchmark note yields to the lowest since January 2009, after ADP Employer Services said private payrolls unexpectedly contracted in September.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
The best part of my job is reuniting candidates with their self-confidence. In today's job market I know it is so difficult to remain positive and to not take rejection personally.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 by Samantha Nolan
New research confirms that women plagued by morning sickness in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
The three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry all developed new ways to make carbon atoms stick to one another -- a mundane-sounding process that in fact underlies the very basis of life.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Health regulators plan to spend millions of dollars to step up their scientific prowess in a move that officials say will help quickly get new treatments to patients and protect the public against possible health threats.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Republicans could keep their promises to stop healthcare reform even if they cannot repeal it, simply by blocking legislation needed to pay for it, one expert argued on Wednesday.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Americans die sooner than citizens of a dozen other developed nations and the usual suspects -- obesity, traffic accidents and a high murder rate -- are not to blame, researchers reported on Thursday.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
I battle desperately not to climb aboard Queenstown's romantic-adventure band-wagon; but I fail miserably.
Monday, September 27, 2010 by Kip Brook
After two and a half years of renovation costing $ 29 million, the five star luxury hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul Turkey opened its doors to guests.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Even as your contemporaries sail to the Caribbean to celebrate to Christmas, you take a different course.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The largest of the Seychelles archipelago, Mahe is an African island rich with hidden treasures.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
You just have wait till 2015 for a trip into the space, as US aerospace giant Boeing and Space Adventure have tied up to put tourists into low-level orbit in a futuristic capsule.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Uggs Australia get a lot of grief in the fashion world, but they're undeniably comfortable and now they're more fashionable as well.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by Carly Zinderman
Stunning actress Keira Knightley turned heads in Paris the other day while filming a sexy new ad campaign for Chanel.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise got cozy at the premiere for 'The Romantics' in New York City and we were on hand to report on Katie's latest style antics.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Those wanting to up the ante on their backyard "stay-cation" and holiday hospitality should consider Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet's extravagant outdoor kitchen, which is more like an outdoor cooking "resort." .
Monday, September 27, 2010 by Merilee Kern
Emerald Jet Charter announced that it now is offering helicopter travel along with chartering private business jets.
Monday, September 27, 2010 by James Rothaar
