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Filed under: Forecasts , Politics The U.S. dollar continues to weaken, which has led to commodity price increases, including a higher-than-fundamentals-dictate oil price of about $80 per barrel, and U.S. Treasury Department professionals are working long-and-hard to continue to refinance and rollover U.S.
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A little federal income tax hike would go a long way
Filed under: Major movement , Earnings reports , Forecasts , Good news , Competitive strategy , Starbucks (SBUX) Shares of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX ) are trading up in after hours trading today after the company posted strong Q4 earnings numbers after the market close. As we noted in our earnings preview , the company was expected to show earnings for the quarter of 21 cents per share on $2.39 billion in revenues
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Starbucks reports better than expected fourth quarter earnings
Filed under: Consumer experience , Employees , Money and Finance Today , Economic data , Personal finance , Politics , Housing , Financial Crisis After haggling since September the US Senate finally passed an extension for unemployed persons and extended the credit for first time home buyers. The situation for unemployed persons is dire. Here are just a few facts about their current situation: We have 15 million unemployed vying for just three million available jobs.
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US Senate extends jobless benefits and first time home buyer credit
Filed under: Earnings reports , Competitive strategy , Chasing Value , Stocks to Buy , Best Stocks for 2009 When you run across a stock with a 16% yield you at least have to check out the story. Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ: PSEC ) is just such a company
Filed under: India , China , Brazil , Russia , Market matters , Money and Finance Today , Federal Reserve The US dollar is down 20% since 2002 on a trade weighted basis. Other world economies like China are dynamic, with growth rates of 8 and 9%. With that kind of clout, countries like China, India and Brazil, can choose where to place their reserves.
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Central Banks lead a shift away from the dollar
Filed under: Competitive strategy , Sprint Nextel Corp (S) , Verizon Communications (VZ) , Smartphones While Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S ) continues losing hundreds of thousands of customers every quarter, it has actually raised the bar on offering cutting-edge smartphones at the same time. Smartphones, which are slowly but surely replacing the standard cellphone for the typical “always need to be connected” consumer, are helping wireless carriers drum up wireless data revenue to replace the lost voice revenue as customers talk less.
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Verizon to unveil Droid Eris phone for $99 — and kills Sprint Nextel’s $180 price for the HTC Hero
Filed under: Google (GOOG) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Pfizer (PFE) , Market matters , McDonald’s (MCD) , Caterpillar (CAT) , Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) , Chevron Corp (CVX) , General Mills (GIS) , Procter and Gamble (PG) , Kimberly-Clark (KMB) , Kohl’s Corp (KSS) , Polo Ralph Lauren’A’ (RL) , Stocks to Buy , Cramer on BloggingStocks From TheStreet.com Network Good Managers Take Time: The Innovators Cisco Nails It, Sees Healing Economy TheStreet.com’s Jim Cramer says you can be bearish, but you have to admit when you’re wrong. Oh boy, I hit a nerve. My last two days of donning the bear suit and imitating the bears has brought on a cacophony of critics, all of whom think that I am attacking them personally! That’s right, they think I have read them, seen them and heard them and that I am spoofing them or making fun of them
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: All I’m asking for is rigor
