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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is responsible for measuring inflation, and it has just released its first reading with the June Producer Price Index (PPI). This is the measure of...
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ThinkstockHealth information website WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD) this morning raised its second-quarter estimates for revenues and profits, citing higher demand for its advertising and...
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ThinkstockThe European Union’s (EU) statistical agency, Eurostat, reported this morning that industrial production in May for the 17 countries of the eurozone fell by 0.3% month-over-month and by...
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July 11, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning, cheered by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech after markets closed night. In Asia, the Shanghai exchange soared 3.2%, even though...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Treasury Department reported today that for the month of June the federal budget ran a surplus of $117 billion. Last June the deficit was $60 billion. The federal budget deficit...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of the Treasury auctioned $13 billion in 30-year bonds today at an average yield of 3.66%, a gain of just half a basis point for the day. For comparison, yields on...
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ThinkstockDuring the first quarter of 201, the U.S.became just the fourth country to reach the milestone level of 10 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity. A total of 1.8 GW of...
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ThinkstockIn its weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey, home lending giant Freddie Mac reported that mortgage rates for fixed-rate loans have continued a nearly two-month streak of increases. The...
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thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 82 billion cubic feet last week, within the range for an expected build of between...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims for the past week. The first caveat is that this was a holiday week for the 4th of July, and this came at...
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ThinkstockRetailers are announcing June same-store sales figures today. Research firm Retail Metrics projected an overall gain of 3.9% year-over-year, compared with a 3.5% gain in May and a 2.8% gain...
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ThinkstockThe International Energy Agency (IEA) is the last of the closely watched reports on the oil market to come out this month. The agency said today that it raised its oil demand growth...
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ThinkstockLate last month research firm Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) forecast that PC sales would fall by 10.6% in 2013. Right on on plan, the firm said today that second-quarter shipments fell by 10.9%....
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ThinkstockPenn National Gaming Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) announced that it has received approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission to implement the company’s previously announced separation of its...
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July 10, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened barely mixed this morning after last night’s downgrade of Italian debt and a report that both China’s exports and imports declined in June. There was...
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