Late last night I made the rounds of my favorite financial websites, which includes The Economist, and I came across a fascinating study of the cost of snail mail in Europe, North America and ...

The S&P 500 got off to weak start and, after retracing a modest morning rally, spent most of the day in the shallow red with an intraday low of 0.63%. But in the last seven minutes of trading, the...

Earlier this morning I posted an update on the May Advance Report on April Durable Goods Orders. This Census Bureau series dates from 1992 and is not adjusted for either population growth or ...

The May Advance Report on April Durable Goods was released this morning by the Census Bureau. Here is the summary on new orders:   New orders for manufactured durable goods in April increased ...

The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. The 370,000 new claims is a slight decline from last week's upward revision of 2,000 for the previous week -- ...

Europe tanked today, with all most of the major indexes losing two to three percent. The US markets followed suit, with the S&P 500 hitting its intraday low, off 1.53%, during the lunch hour. But ...

Tomorrow morning the Census Bureau will release the Advance Report on April Durable Goods, and I'll post my updates shortly thereafter. The new report will be based on the benchmark revisions ...

My quick snapshot yesterday of major European markets showed a massive rally, which I playfully suggested was driven by a "Don't bet against the EU Summit" sentiment. Well, the market yesterday showed...

The carryover from yesterday's rally in the S&P 500 dove for cover in the final hour of trading on news that Greece's former prime minister mentioned contingency planning for a Greek exit from the...

My quick snapshot yesterday of major European markets showed the two major Eurozone peripheral nations, Spain and Italy, as outliers with daily losses, following the grim example of the vanishing ...