Just when you thought that economists were starting to get it right, we see this. A rise in the initial claims to 484,000 from an estimated 440,000. That put the jobs “improvement” scheme back in its bottle.
Now that the Obama Administration is feeling a tad bit different about the healthcare...
Surprise! Google (GOOG) continues to take market share from its competitors. Baidu (BIDU) may see a change and uptick in the next monthly reading as there is talk of Google pulling out of the China market. But that remains to be seen.
Where Google remains they will dominate.
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Some of the more interesting and important items for January 21st :
China Losing to U.S. as Investment Choice on Bubble Concern in Global Poll – How weird is this?
E.C. approves Oracle’s buyout of Sun Microsystems – Was there thought of anything else? EU wants to have the opportunity to...
Well, it has to be said: We live in interesting times. Looking at the Massachusetts election “upset” proves that point rather vividly. The result of a Republican elected to the Senate, taking away the super-majority from the Democrats helped spark a sharp rally in the U.S dollar.
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Building Permits saw a slight uptick while Housing Starts did not. It is hard to imagine that with the NAHB confidence numbers that we saw yesterday that builders are breaking ground. Obviously they are not.
Permits are easy to apply for and get approved so there is...
