Economic Calendar for August 15, 2008 Vital economic data can make or break a trade and can even move the markets drastically. Traders should be aware of upcoming economic data every day before they even make their first days trade. Impact Time Market Forecast Previous - All Day Holiday: The Assumption EUR - - Med 8:30am Manufacturing Shipments m/m CAD 1.0% 2.7% Med 8:30am Empire State Manufact...
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Good morning. Premarket trading has been volatile ahead of the opening bell as investors digest a better than expected report from Wal-Mart with a hotter than expected Consumer Price Index. First-time applications for state unemployment benefits fell by 10,000 in the latest week to 450,000. With strength in overseas markets, premarket futures had a positive bias earlier but fell following the r...
The Dangers Of Overreacting To The Current Economic Environment: Whole Foods Market (WFMI) And Tween Brands (TWB)
Wed, Aug 13, 4:54 AM ET
Subprime lenders like New Century Financial, Novastar, and, to a large extent, Countrywide Financial, learned a hard lesson in the dangers of operating businesses as though the then-current good economic times would last forever. Now the economy has taken a turn for the worse, and companies are struggling to react to new realities. Whole Foods Market (WFMI) is trying to convince shoppers that i...
Filed under: Earnings reports, Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT), Amazon.com (AMZN)Napster (NASDAQ: NAPS), a digital-music-download entity that competes with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), cued up its Q1 numbers on Monday after the bell. The top line decreased 6% to $30.3 million. The bottom line showed a net loss of 10...
Restaurant equipment empire, that is.
It looks like the curtain is coming down one of the most successful two-man acts in the hedge fund business. Hedge-fund veteran Paul Tudor Jones and stock picker James Pallotta are reportedly considering parting ways after a 15-year partnership that saw Mr. Jones’s Tudor Investment grow into an $18 billion hedge fund empire. According to Bloomberg News, [...]
Paul Tudor Jones and James Pallotta are considering changes to their $18 billion hedge-fund empire, including a possible split.
Cramer on BloggingStocks: Cheap housing markets will sow the seeds of a rebound
Thu, Jul 31, 4:30 AM ET
Filed under: Earnings reports, Deals, Private equity, Market matters, Merrill Lynch (MER), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Procter and Gamble (PG), Verizon Communications (VZ), Unilever ADR (UL), Housing, Cramer on BloggingStocks, RecessionTheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says 30%-40% discounts have a way of bringing out the buyers. Home prices in Stockton, CA ...
While in Vienna last week, I grabbed hold of the international edition of The Wall Street Journal. Over a classic Viennese breakfast of coffee, a boiled egg and pastry, I stumbled across an interview with Ted Forstmann, titled, “The Credit Crisis Is Going to Get Worse.” I hadn’t seen Forstmann’s name in years. He once lorded over one of the world’s most famous priv...
Yesterday the Federal Reserve released the latest Beige Book. Below are excerpts from the report along with relevant charts to further explain some of the points. All charts are from Econoday unless otherwise noted.Here is the overall summary:Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that the pace of economic activity slowed somewhat since the last report. Five eastern Districts...