Financiers, lawyers, traders and accountants gathered this week at the annual International Swaps and Derivatives Association conference in San Francisco …
By Thursday night they needed to put out of their minds the specter of sweeping legislation to regulate the derivatives.
Rare earth elements are minerals crucial to military hardware and the latest wind turbines and hybrid gasoline-electric cars,
meaning they are now, and will become increasingly, crucial for the smooth and, hopefully, rapid development of advanced clean / green technologies.
The German labor market has been surprisingly bulletproof during the economic downturn,
outperforming the United States and already beginning to tick downward, falling to 8.5 percent in March from 8.7 percent a year earlier.
The German labor market has been surprisingly bulletproof during the economic downturn,
We’re on George Soros’ mailing list, so we’re taking advantage of it to give our readers the entirety of his take on SEC v GSachs, which appeared in today’s Financial Times,
something that is SUPPOSED be available to everyone – as Economy Watch is 😉 – given the FT’s alleged “limited free access” policy, [br]
So much for the euphoria over the ‘solution’ to the Greek crisis with the announcement of the EU-IMF bailout. The markets weren’t really convinced, and Greece’s interest rates had been ticking up.
The mobile internet is ramping up faster than the desktop (PC-based) internet did, leading to projections that mobile internet usage could overtake desktop access by 2013 – 2014.
The mobile internet is ramping up faster than the desktop (PC-based) internet did, leading to projections that mobile internet usage could overtake desktop access by 2013 – 2014.
While we’re still recovering from the two full days of intense concentration that went into our latest Feature Analysis on the Goldman / SEC situation,
it gives us a chance to share with you some of the “In the News” items that have been accumulating over the past few days … 😉 … [br]
Still exhausted from having finished an extensive “Featured Analysis” of the SEC’s civil – not criminal – indictment of Goldman Sachs for its “double dealing” in the US housing market,
How much will the bank bailout cost US taxpayers ???
The answers have as much to do with politics as economics – which, of course, is no surprise to readers of this site … 😉 …
How much will the bank bailout cost US taxpayers ???
The answers have as much to do with politics as economics – which, of course, is no surprise to readers of this site … 😉 …
More often than not, companies that are likely to fall short tend to pre-announce their results, in part to lower the market’s expectations.
Historically, two companies pre-announce bad news for every company that hints at better-than-expected results to come.
