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ThinkstockAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) reported second-quarter fiscal 2013 results after markets closed today. The aluminum miner and refiner reported quarterly adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of...
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July 8, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a long holiday weekend interrupted by Friday’s report on jobs and the unemployment rate. In Europe, the troika of the EC, the...
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courtesy of Google Inc.For the first time in months, the most popular free app from the App Store at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is not Candy Crush Saga. The honor in June goes to Despicable Me: Minion...
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ThinkstockSouth African miners at two platinum mines owned by Anglo American PLC’s Anglo American Platinum subsidiary (known as Amplats) have begun a wildcat strike, demanding that the company lift...
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ThinkstockThe latest data from Lender Processing Services Inc. (NYSE: LPS) shows that the total U.S. mortgage loan delinquency rate has fallen from 6.21% in April to 6.08% in May, and that mortgages...
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Courtesy Chrysler Group LLCItalian automaker Fiat SpA, which already owns 58.5% of Chrysler Group, has now exercised a third option on another 3.3% of the U.S. carmaker’s shares. The catch is that...
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ThinkstockClaiming to be the world’s largest digital coupon marketplace, RetailMeNot Inc. has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) and set an offering price range of $20 to $22 a share. The...
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July 3, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning anticipating a blizzard of economic data out of the U.S. Mortgage purchase applications were first out, and down sharply from a week ago....
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thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 72 billion cubic feet last week, within the range for an expected build of between...
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ThinkstockGallup’s June Job Creation Index remained equal to May’s reading of 22, the highest level since April 2008. The index for nongovernment jobs rose from a reading of 24 in May to 25 in...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories dropped by 10.3 million barrels last week,...
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ThinkstockThis morning’s report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) on non-manufacturing PMI showed that the U.S. services sector is growing, but at its slowest pace in the past 12...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll-to-population (P2P) employment rate rose from...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsNew claims for unemployment benefits fell from 348,000 to 343,000 last week, according to the weekly report from the U.S. Department of Labor. The consensus estimate...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported this morning that the U.S. trade deficit for May totaled $45 billion, up from a revised $40.1 billion in April. That is a...
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