The FOMC minutes were just released from its recent 10/28 - 10/29 meeting. Here are the highlights: The information reviewed at the October meeting indicated that economic conditions deteriorated in recent months. The labor market weakened further in September as private payrolls fell at a faster pace than earlier in the year and the unemployment rate remained above six percent. Industrial prod...
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From Vince Farrell at RealMoney: A report making the rounds today [Wednesday] detailed managers' Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size of the positions could be from market share losses or the sale of a position, or most likely, both.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - U.S. car giant General Motors Corp announced a two-month shutdown at its Thai plant on Thursday, the latest move by global automakers seeking to slash costs in the face of weak sales and deepening economic gloom.
U.K. retail sales are expected to have declined for the second month in a row in October. Economists are predicting that consumer consumption drop 0.9%...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The government is investigating if homeowners were misled by California bank and mortgage issuer Golden West Financial, which was acquired by Wachovia Corp -- another possible victim.
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Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Best Buy (BBY), Costco Wholesale (COST), Economic data, RecessionElectronics giant Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is not only suffering from the worst consumer holiday spending meltdown in years, but its beleaguered customer base is now fleeing to discount retailers like Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Costco (NASDAQ: COST). So it appears Best Buy is getting hit with a double whammy...
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Marketing and advertising, Procter and Gamble (PG)Maybe it is one of the reasons that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) are among the best managed companies in America. They will go to almost any legitimate lengths to improve their knowledge of businesses that will help them expand and prosper. P&G would like to know more about how to sell...
One of the unexpected benefits of a $90-a-barrel drop in the price of crude oil is a transport sector that has far less to pay for keeping things moving. Now, of course, that savings is predicated on the assumption that there’s actually something out there to move – that manufacturers are still making things, and consumers are still buying. These days, none of that can be taken for ...
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