President Obama Talks Budget & Taxes: Is The President Turning Left Again? President Obama has turned left claimed some political analysts today as he unveiled his budget objectives today in a live speech at George Washington University. But are they onto something? President Obama spoke today market watchers, economists as well as political analysts are…
Dow Falls 117 Points, Oil Drops 3 Percent: Global headlines Negative, Goldman Sachs Puts Out New Research: The Dow Jones reached its lowest point in several days after global headlines and expectations of slower growth hampered markets. The nuclear crisis in Japan has some concerned about production and supply coming from the region. Yesterday, Japan…
Japan Raises Nuclear Crisis Severity: Japan has raised the nuclear crisis severity level from 5 to 7. This ranks the Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami disaster on par with Chernobyl in terms of suspected radiation levels. Japan’s earthquake and tsunami that occurred March 11, 2011 has not had significant news coverage in the last few…
Earnings News: Small Companies Should Tell The Story: Earnings Season Begins- Who Will Be The Big Winners? Smaller Firms? Earnings season begins this week and companies will be reporting their numbers to anxiously waiting of investors, analysts and market participants. Most analysts expect earnings to surprise on the upside overall as they have for the…
Government Shutdown 2011 News: More Spending Cuts On The Way? Why More Cuts May Be On The Way. The U.S. federal government shutdown was averted last night at the 11th hour but what does this mean for the budget and how have the headlines affected polling? There may be negative confidence effects due federal government…
Federal Government Narrowly Avoids Shutdown: Shutdown Averted With Last Minute Deal. The federal government shutdown 2011 won’t happen – this week. Democrats and Republicans were able to come to an agreement about spending cuts. The agreement involves a $38 billion dollar cut in federal funding and both Republicans as well as Democrats took credit for…
The Effects Of A U.S. Federal Government Shutdown 2011: What Happens? Who will be impacted? What could happen as a result of the government shutdown? If the government does shutdown for an extended period, the impact will be overwhelmingly negative and the states would lose millions in revenue daily. President Barack Obama and the Democrats…
Federal Government Shutdown 2011 Not Yet Avoided Markets stood firm today ahead of earnings and a possible federal government shutdown. The broad index rose slightly building on recent gains as the S&P increased 2.91 points to close at 1,335.54. As a potential government shutdown looms, investors are steering clear from large buys before Friday April…
Federal Government Shutdown 2011: Is A U.S. Government Shutdown April 8 Possible or Probable? Could The Federal Government Shutdown 2011 Over The Budget Really Happen This Time? Is a federal government shutdown imminent – again? This time it seems like Republicans and Democrats may not be bluffing. The U.S. federal government is set to close…
