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The weekly jobless claims are finally back under the 400,000 mark. Today’s reading showed that the drop was 36,000 down to 383,000. To show just what a relief it is, this was the lowest reading...
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A new Gallup poll says people are more optimistic than they have been in three years. Forty-one percent of Americans in January said the economy is “getting better,” up from 35% in December and...
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All in all, then, I expect noticeably stronger growth in overall activity this year than last. If I had to write down a forecast today, it would be pretty close to 4 percent. A rate of growth in that...
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This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for February 3, 2011.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
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Americans who need jobs will take jobs other than the ones they desire. A new Gallup poll says that “Six in 10 unemployed Americans say the next job they get is not likely to be one they want;...
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The Labor Department just delivered the weekly jobless claims and the numbers are startling even if seasonality is a large issue in January as retailers and transport companies trim back on their...
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Thursday has been a very busy day when it comes down to economic releases. We have seen data from the Conference Board on Consumer Confidence for December and National Association of Realtors data...
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American’s may have heard about the warnings from Moody’s and S&P. The two credit ratings agencies announced that they could downgrade the US’s AAA ratings. According to Gallup, while...
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Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
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There have been 10 calendar years during the last one hundred in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 30%. The reason for the sharp increases were, in some cases, due to very...
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Lost in the optimistic talk about the economic recovery around the world are the things that brought the recession on and the new challenges which may appear next year. The US stock market is back to...
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We have just seen a very mixed bag of economic data this morning ahead of the holiday. While nothing is atrocious, none of it is exactly showing a gangbuster economy. Other data is different, but...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its latest round of weekly jobless claims. Last week’s figure came to a drop of 3,000 on a revised basis to 420,000 versus 423,000 a week earlier. Last week...
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Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
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The Labor Department has just released its latest round of Weekly Jobless Claims fell 17,000 to 421,000 claims from an upwardly revised 438,000 the week before. Bloomberg had estimates pegged at...
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