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If You’re Out of Work Blame Your Cell Phone

{ Posted on Jan 13 2012 by Martin Hutchinson }
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Categories : AAPL, All, Article, cell phones, Martin Hutchinson, Money, Money Morning, unemployment, WMT
Times are tough out there. We would like to blame China, incompetent politicians, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the banking system, or some unseen forces for this phenomenon. But in reality, the answer is no further than our pockets. ...Read More »

Growth of Online Retailers Makes Internet the New Shopping Battleground

{ Posted on Nov 29 2011 by David Zeiler }
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Categories : AAPL, AKAM, All, AMZN, Article, BBY, Cyber Monday, ebay, EGAN, FLWS, FORR, Internet Shopping, JCP, KEYN, LOW, Money, Money Morning, Online Retailers, online shopping, Pets, TGT, Uncategorized, VPRT, Web-only retailers, WMT
While online retailers have celebrated the growth of online shopping, conventional retailers determined not to lose customers have been ramping up their Internet efforts. Forrester Research Inc. (NYSE: FORR) estimates that online shopping will increase by 15% to ...Read More »

Don’t Miss These Three Year-End Trading Strategies

{ Posted on Nov 25 2011 by Larry D. Spears }
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Categories : All, IWM, Larry D. Spears, Money, Money Morning, MUR, Premium Content, SPY, Stocks, TGT, Trade, Uncategorized, WMT, Year-end trading strategies
Before yesterday's Thanksgiving leftovers even got cold many U.S. consumers ventured out to catch the best Black Friday deals, already worried about how much this holiday shopping season will cost them. But instead of fretting over how ...Read More »

Unfair Chinese Business Practices Threaten Profits of U.S. Businesses

{ Posted on Oct 25 2011 by David Zeiler }
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Categories : AAPL, All, BA, China, CHK, COP, CRRFY, GE, Global Markets, GOOG, HON, Money, Money Morning, MSFT, Uncategorized, Unfair Chinese business practices, WMT, XOM
U.S. companies have become increasingly worried that unfair Chinese business practices are hurting their ability to compete and will start eating into the juicy profits they've been extracting from the Asian giant. Problems with how China ...Read More »

Seven Potential Employment – And Profit – Opportunities

{ Posted on Oct 21 2011 by Larry D. Spears }
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Categories : All, CAT, CMG, CVS, F, GM, LHCG, Money, Money Morning, PFE, PNC, RSH, SNA, u.s. companies that are hiring, Uncategorized, unemployment, WMT, WPI
With the U.S. unemployment rate steady at 9.1% and President Obama's jobs plan creating more conflict than opportunity, it's hard to believe there are U.S. companies that are hiring. But there are. Even taking into account the gloomy ...Read More »

A Nobel Prize for Steve Jobs?

{ Posted on Oct 20 2011 by Martin Hutchinson }
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The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Oct. 10. It went to Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent - two fairly obscure economists whose main work was on rational expectations theory. That followed by five days the death of ...Read More »

These Are the Retailers to Watch This Earnings Season

{ Posted on Oct 14 2011 by Kerri Shannon }
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Categories : All, Article, COH, DG, FDO, JOSB, Kerri Shannon, Money, Money Morning, TGT, TIF, Uncategorized, WMT
There are a handful of savvy retailers that prepared for the tough economy by positioning themselves to profit - and now they're being rewarded with blockbuster earnings. So far this earnings season, more than half of retailers ...Read More »

Corporations Are the Real Winners When it Comes to Free Trade Agreements

{ Posted on Oct 14 2011 by David Zeiler }
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Whether the free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea create jobs or destroy them is debatable, but one thing is sure: U.S. corporations will reap the most benefit from the deals. After years of delay, ...Read More »

The "Currency Manipulator" That’s About to Put 3 Million Americans Back to Work

{ Posted on Oct 13 2011 by Martin Hutchinson }
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Categories : All, BCG, currency manipulator, ETH, F, LZB, Martin Hutchinson, Money, Money Morning, Premium Content, U.S. Economy, UAW, Uncategorized, unemployment, WHR, WMT
Think U.S. jobs are destined to drain away to China forever? Think U.S. unemployment will grow and grow while cheap overseas labor supplants American workers? Think your children will be forced to work selling Big Macs to ...Read More »

How the Legacy of Steve Jobs Could Haunt Apple

{ Posted on Oct 10 2011 by David Zeiler }
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Categories : AAPL, All, DIS, Legacy of Steve Jobs, Money, Money Morning, Stocks, Technology, Uncategorized, WMT
Now that its iconic founder is truly gone, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) must figure out how to remain true to the legacy of Steve Jobs without getting hamstrung by it. It's not as easy ...Read More »
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