The State Of Greed, Euphoria And Vigor In The Stock Market
These days, every Wall Street research department seems to have a favored measure of investor sentiment.Understanding sentiment is important because short-term swings in the markets tend to be driven...
View ArticleThe US Air Force Can't Find Enough Pilots To Operate Its Drone Fleet
The US Air Force is unable to keep up with a growing demand for pilots capable of operating drones, partly due to a shortage of volunteers, according to a new study.Despite the importance placed on the...
View ArticleThe New Avril Lavigne Video Might Just Have The Most Hamfisted Product...
Avril Lavigne is back with a new single, following up on her awesome song-of-the-summer candidate, Here's To Never Growing Up.The new one's called Rock & Roll, and it just came out yesterday, and...
View ArticleWhat Men And Women Really Think About Gender Equality In The Workplace
In the age of "leaning in," there seems to be a power struggle between men and women in the workplace.Elle magazine teamed up with the Center for American Progress to survey men and women about what...
View ArticleThe 12 Best-Looking Apps On Android
For some reason, Android just can't seem to shake its reputation for having worse apps than iOS.While the iPhone got a jump-start on app development by opening the doors to developers in 2008, Android...
View ArticleJapan Is Slightly Higher
It's nothing special, but for the moment things are a bit more stable on the world market stage, at least compared to the last two days.Japan is up modestly in early going.Join the conversation about...
View ArticleYour Ultimate Preview To Wednesday's Unusually Important Fed Minutes
When it comes to the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meetings (Federal Open Market Committee), most of the important information is published at the end of the meeting in the form of a brief...
View Article20 Ways To Enjoy The US Open On A Budget
FLUSHING MEADOWS — What's not to love? US Open qualifying sets start today — and they're free.The tennis tournament famed for its blue courts, night matches and fifth-set tiebreaks officially opens...
View Article11 Selfies From Some Of The Most Powerful Execs In Tech
Sometimes, it just makes sense to take a selfie.Even executives running the biggest, buzziest tech companies have taken time out of their day to pose for their own camera. Thanks to Snapchat and...
View ArticleBILL ACKMAN: Reported Suicide Of Top Herbalife Salesman Is One Sign That The...
Activist investor Bill Ackman continues to find himself in a deep losing position on his famous short of Herbalife, the maker of nutritional products and shakes, which Ackman argues are being sold via...
View ArticleGOLDMAN: Here's The Jackson Hole Paper We Can't Wait To Read On Friday
The Kansas City Fed's annual Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming has become one of the hottest conferences for econ nerds around the world.It was at the 2010 Jackson Hole conference when...
View ArticleNikkei Gains Instantly Evaporate After Japan Raises Severity Level Of Latest...
The Japanese market was humming along, and then BAM. The rally has evaporated.The culprit.According to Reuters, Japan has just raised the severity level of the latest leak at Fukushima (the nuclear...
View ArticleBleeding Stopped, As Markets Go Nowhere
The last two days, US market participants have woken up to some pretty notable market swings in key economies.Today? Not so much. In Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Italy, and Germany, basically nothing is...
View ArticleBill Ackman Wants Everyone Who Says He's A Destroyer Of Companies To See This...
Bill Ackman has been getting a lot of heat lately for a couple of reasons.For one thing, he's had some major losing bets (Herbalife and JCPenney) and they've been very high-profile.Furthermore, in the...
View ArticleBeautiful Footage Of Brooklyn Proves What You Can Do With A Drone, An Hour...
Charles Forman, the entrepreneur behind PictureLife and Zynga's OMGPOP, owns a quadcopter drone. He's creative, so he sometimes straps a GoPro camera to it and captures unique footage from above. A...
View ArticleThis Chair Symbolizes The Biggest Problem At JCPenney
JCPenney executives blame the retailer's newly renovated home department for rapidly declining sales and profits. Failed CEO Ron Johnson burned cash revamping the home store and getting designer names...
View ArticleNSA Releases Court Opinion On 'Unconstitutional' Scooping Of Domestic Emails
The NSA scooped up around 56,000 domestic emails per year 'with no connection to terrorism,' reports the Associated Press.The NSA is declassifying three documents that reportedly show how they made the...
View ArticleSTOCKS TUMBLE AFTER THE FED: Here's What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, QQQ, TOL)
Volatility spiked after after the Federal Reserve published the minutes of its July Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.First, the scoreboard:Dow: 14,897.5, -105.4, -0.7%S&P 500: 1,642.8,...
View Article16,000 New Yorkers Could Lose Their License For Falling Behind On Taxes
Now if you don’t pay your taxes in New York, it could cost you more than just a visit from the IRS.The state has officially rolled out a new program that will yank delinquent taxpayers' driver's...
View Article10 Reasons You Should Buy A Diesel Car
Diesel engines, long reputed for being loud and dirty, are making waves in the U.S. Although they accounted for just 3.2% of U.S. auto sales in 2012 (about the same as hybrids), the number of diesels...
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