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It was not that long ago when traders and investors were making a fortune investing in the new endless growth instrument: blazing hot solar stocks. If you have followed this sector, you have seen...
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We keep trying to look for good news on the jobs front. Unfortunately, there is almost none to be found. The Conference Board Employment Trends Index was released today and the report shows that...
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3M (NYSE: MMM) is joining the layoff front. This morning the company previewed a presentation it would give institutional investors detailing cost cutting actions. The company is lowering...
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It is easy to get pumped up about overseas rate cuts, but there is cautionary data from at least three DJIA components. Wal-Mart is the economic trade-down so that win in retail sales is a little...
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Everyone keeps asking why the stock market selling persists, yet they are the same reasons that were there in the weeks and months before the election. The difference today is that now the election...
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Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) just can’t get it right. The focus of the business is elusive and it seems that nothing it embarks on works. Actually, it doesn’t seem that way. It is...
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DHL has announced that it was cutting 9,500 jobs as it discontinues air and ground operations within the United States. DHL Express says that it will continue to operate between the United States...
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GM (GM) may not get the $10 billion it needs to buy Chrysler, but, even if the Fed comes up with the money, the UAW may try to block the deal. A long strike against the companies in the current...
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Newly-named Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE:CLF) is slowing production at two of its Minnesota iron ore mines in order "to bring production in line with demand." Three furnaces capable of...
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Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) is being hit hard after the company announced that it will accelerate its previously announced efforts to re-size the company and to remove $300 million in fixed...
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Apparently labor costs throughout Latin America are getting too pricey, if you can believe it. Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE: HBI) is updating its "consolidation and globalization cost-reduction...
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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) has not been without its share of problems. It has just announced that it will implement a headcount reduction of approximately 360 positions worldwide. This...
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There are hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake if the current trends continue in the financial services sector. When you tally up the employment just at five troubled firms noted below, there are...
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There may be an interesting trend in the IT outsourcing game, and one that will seem counter-intuitive if you have witnessed the currency trends and jobs migration trends since 2002. This isn’t...
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Verizon (VZ) managed to dodge a strike by about 65,000 of its workers. It would have crippled the company’s landline and broadband businesses and might have caused investors to dump the stock in...
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