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Retail Stocks, One Week After Black Friday

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:37:00 GMT

Friday saw some crazy trading, as investors reacted to a surprisingly good employment number. Price gapped up to start the day, proceeded to fall sharply, before gaining traction late in the day to close slightly positive on very heavy volume. The dollar also saw a strong rally, as traders considered the possibility that a stronger economy may result in higher interest rates.[More...]

Obama's Brilliant Jobs Move

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:47:32 GMT

President Obama convened a "jobs summit" at the White House Thursday morning. It was likely one of the more brilliant moves of his presidency. One of the most notable early promises from Obama was that the massive stimulus measure signed into law earlier this year would save or create 3.5M American jobs.[More...]

Quality Large-Cap Retail Is Best Portfolio Stocking Stuffer

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:30:24 GMT

Christmas is coming, and that means two sets of flurries are on the horizon – snow and retail news. Now that the aftershocks of the 2008 financial collapse have had time to set in, this year will be a test to see how resilient consumers are in spending for the holidays. Retailers, for their part, have been preparing by slimming down; most are carrying record low levels of inventories to avoid the need for post-rush markdowns.[More...]

The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:31:06 GMT

Welcome to the Wealth Daily Weekend Edition — our insights from the week in investing and links to our most-read Wealth Daily and sister publication articles. Another dizzying week of ups and downs was capped with good news yesterday...[More...]

Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:26:39 GMT

This post is a slightly edited version of remarks prepared for delivery at Unwinding Public Interventions in the Financial Sector: Preconditions and Practical Considerations, IMF High-Level Conference, Thursday, December 3, 2009, Washington D.C. I participated in Session 2: Managing Fiscal Risks—Public Finance Aspects of Unwinding.[More...]

Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:00:46 GMT

US stocks finished up as as a government release showed that economy lost far fewer jobs than expected in November, as the unemployment rate fell to 10 percent.[More...]

Credit customers feel trapped by rule changes, rising rates

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:47:00 GMT

Dec. 6--Eileen Rogan was enraged when Citibank recently raised the annual interest rate on her credit card to 19 percent after boosting it a year ago from 10 percent to 15 percent.
The giant card issuer, she said, was boosting rates on customers even as it benefit ed from billions of dollars in low-cost funds made available by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department.
What irked Raymond Miltier was a recent notice from Bank of America that he would have to pay a $29 annual fee to continue using his BofA card.

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Retail Stocks, One Week After Black Friday

Obama's Brilliant Jobs Move

Quality Large-Cap Retail Is Best Portfolio Stocking Stuffer

The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System

Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Credit customers feel trapped by rule changes, rising rates

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback

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