A tech company introduced a microwave you can turn on using Wi-Fi – as long as you have one of the company’s voice assistants at home, reported Kaitlyn Tiffany of Vox…
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Weekly Market Commentary – September 17, 2018
The September installment of University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Surveyreported Americans are feeling pretty optimistic…
Weekly Market Commentary – September 10, 2018
Strong economic growth and rising wages have the potential to push inflation – increases in prices of everyday goods – higher than the Fed’s 2 percent target.
Weekly Market Commentary – September 4, 2018
Markets were fired up last week after the United States and Mexico agreed on new trade rules…
Weekly Market Commentary – August 27, 2018
Not everybody loves meetings and even fewer enjoy reading the minutes, but investors make an exception with the Federal Reserve.
Weekly Market Commentary – August 20, 2018
Missed it by THAT much! After a rocky start, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index came within 1 percent of an all-time high last week, reported Ben Levisohn for Barron’s.
Weekly Market Commentary – August 13, 2018
Turkey was once a rising star. The country’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took office in 2003 and his “conservative, pro-business policies helped pull the country back from an economic crisis,” reported Financial Times.
Weekly Market Commentary – August 6, 2018
A capital gain is any increase in the value of an asset, such as an investment, a home, land, etc., between its purchase and its sale. The amount of a gain is determined by subtracting the purchase price from the sale price.
Weekly Market Commentary – July 30, 2018
Economic growth in the United States was strong during the second quarter. Gross domestic product (GDP), which is the value of all goods and services produced in the United States, grew by 4.1 percent…
Weekly Market Commentary – July 23, 2018
Here’s the good news: Corporate earnings have been strong. As of July 20, 17 percent of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index had reported second quarter results…