Coming Soon To Your Facebook Profile: Embedded Online Video Ads From Companies Including Ford, Coca-Cola And Unilever
In a bid to rake in some online video ad revenue, Facebook will start putting video ads in user profiles in July.
Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 Set Record Highs On Unexpectedly Robust Nonfarm Payroll Report For April, Strong Corporate Earnings
The U.S. equity market's bull run stampeded higher Friday, setting record highs amid a declining level of investor worries.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Crosses 15,000 For First Time; Strong Jobs Reports Provide Big Lift
Both the blue-chip index and the broader S&P 500 crossed historic thresholds after a strong April U.S. jobs report.
US April Nonfarm Payroll Employment Rose 165,000; Unemployment Rate Slips To 7.5%
Job increases for March and February were revised substantially higher, while the unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent.
US Private Sector Employers Create 119,000 Jobs In April, According To Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
Analysts expected private employers to create 158,000 jobs last month. They got 75 percent of that forecast.
Sony Executives To Return Bonuses, As Much As Half Of Total Compensation, Because Japanese Company's Consumer Electronics Business Remains Unprofitable
Sony's CEO enforces pay for performance: Top executives must return bonuses as key business loses money, again.
Falling Exports Cut Chinese Manufacturing In April, Dragging Down Its Purchasing Managers Index, Signaling Slowing Growth
China's manufacturers found less demand for their products last month so factories were less busy. Not a good sign.
US Consumer Confidence Rises In April, More Than Expected, On Consumers' Increased Optimism About Future And Their Incomes
However, confidence remains below its historic level, and it's too soon to tell if the rise will endure, analysts say.
US Home Prices Jump Most In 7 Years In February On A 9.3 Percent Gain As Inventories Remain Low, Distressed Sales Decline
The pace of U.S. real estate price increases is accelerating, and the housing sector remains the brightest sector in the economy.
S&P 500 Stock Index Climbs To Record High Of 1,593.61 As Tech And Energy Sectors Boost All 10 Sectors
The broad-based S&P 500 stock index set its second record in a month Monday, on strong tech and energy stock gains.
Manufacturing In Texas Unexpectedly Flat In April: Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Manufacturing Business Index
Factories in Texas are stagnating, according to a report by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank.
Personal Income, Consumer Spending Up 0.2 Percent In March, Bureau Of Economic Analysis Says
U.S. consumer spending in March rose more than had been expected by analysts. Meanwhile, core inflation remains low.
US Consumer Sentiment Falls In April But Decline Is Less Than Expected
The widely followed consumer sentiment index waned this month, adding to a recent spate of bad economic news.
Silver To Average Lower Price In 2013 Than In 2012 But Demand For Silver Coins Is Soaring Globally: Silver Institute
The damage from the recent sell-off in silver prices will not likely be repaired this year.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Plunges 145 Points After Fake Tweet That White House Had Been Attacked, President Obama Injured
A fake tweet about the White House being attacked and the president being injured hammered stocks, for a moment.
Euro Zone Business Activity In Private Sector Extended Its Decline In April; Even Germany Weakened; Adds Pressure On ECB To Give Monetary Support
The monetary union in April extended its exploration of just how low it can go in terms of business activity.
Facebook (FB) To Build $1.5 Billion Data Center In Altoona, Iowa; Nebraska Had Competed For The Project
Altoona, a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, gets another big high tech project.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, And 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'
Dzhokhar will die, on the street or in a prison. Justice has its demands.
General Electric Reports Big First-Quarter Gains in Sales, Profit Rises Too As Aviation Business Heats Up
Aviation and energy sales generated a surprisingly large first-quarter profit for General Electric.
Suspect No. 2, One Of Two Brothers, Has Been Identified As Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19; Has Been Living In Boston area
Police name one of the two brothers as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. Authorities seal off Watertown, Mass., to aid search.
Federal Reserve's Beige Book Reveals Economy Edging Slowly Higher, Led By Information Technology
Information technology and residential construction emerge as the economy's leading sectors, in the latest Beige Book.
Bank Of America First-Quarter Profit, Revenue Grow, But Both Miss Street View
The nation's second-largest bank is improving but not at the pace Wall Street would like.
"It Ain't Necessarily So": Reflections on Gun Control
Some folks seem to have an almost religious commitment to demonizing dissent from the dogma du jour on guns -- and one of the quickest ways to draw it out is to suggest that empirical evidence might be relevant to the discussion.
Gold Price Crashes; Biggest Two-Day Plunge In 30 Years; 12-Year Bull Market Appears Finished
The 12-year-old bull market in gold appears over. Analysts search for an explanation why the market virtually crashed.
Price Of Gold In Virtual Free Fall; Since October It Has Fallen 20 Percent And Since Thursday It Is Down 9 Percent
Last week, two major institutions, Societe Generale and Goldman Sachs, recommended clients make bets that the price of gold would fall.
US Is In Recession, Says Noted Economist; Why The Obama Economic Recovery Plan Has Faltered
It walks like a recession, it sounds like a recession, it looks like a recession ... and it's a recovery?
President Obama Proposes $3.7 Trillion Budget For Fiscal 2014, Estimates Plan Will Cut Deficit Through Reduced Spending And Increased Taxes
For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama has proposed to slow the rate of Social Security benefit increases.
Goldman Sachs Joins Societe Generale In Tamping Down Expectations For The Price Of Gold
Exchange-traded fund redemptions are contributing to Goldman Sachs' prediction that the gold price will slide to $1,450 by year's end.
Longshoremen Overwhelmingly Approve Six-Year Labor Contract, National Retail Federation Hails Pact, Management Vote Set For April 17
It's been well over a year since port operations on the East and Gulf coasts have had a contract.
Privacy Issues With China's Qihoo 360 Technology, Which Provides Free Antivirus Software, Are Becoming More Public; But Qihoo Strongly Rebuts Accusations
Qihoo 360 Technology rebuts accusations that its popular antivirus program and browser "stole" users' private information.
