Inquiring minds are interested in figuring out how long it might take to get back to "full employment" defined as 5%.John Mauldin touched upon this theme in Unemployment: Welcome to the New

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The holiday pricing wars have officially begun. Late Thursday, Walmart (WMT) announced it would cut the online price of 10 highly anticipated DVD releases to $10. Just hours later, Amazon (AMZN) and

As earnings season starts to wind down, the health of the economy will be on everyone’s radar. This past week investors were greeted with a better than expected GDP number. It was the first tim

Apple Upgraded by UBS Early this morning, UBS upgraded Apple (AAPL) to “Buy” from “Neutral” and raised its price target to $265 from $170.UBS based its upgrade on “recur

A poor reading by the ISM index knocked stocks back today. For the month of September, the index came in at 52.6 compared to analysts' estimates of 54.0. During the month of August, the ISM had a rea

Unemployment is high and rising. But if the recession is over, won’t employment start to rise? The quick answer is no. Today we’ll look deeper into the Statistical Recovery and find yet m

Last week was a good one for the bears as they were able to take the S&P 500 down nearly 40 points from its mid-week high. The sell-off has left investors wondering if the “bear market rall

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