Among Thursday’s top online stories for investors: Is employment coming back? Are we still in danger of a double-dip recession? Is the U.S. economy on fire?
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Asian markets climbed higher Thursday as positive numbers out of the U.S. triggered a spike in investor confidence. In Japan the Nikkei 225 Index surged 1.8% and in Hong Kong the Hang Seng Index rose 0.9%. China’s Shanghai Comp…
The U.S. must act to rein in its massive budget deficits or face the risk of a bond market crisis, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said Sunday. If deficits begin to frighten the bond market, interest rates will rise, undermi…
Manufacturing activity in the mid-Atlantic region showed modest improvement in October, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, which saw its Business Outlook Survey rise to 1.0. However, despite that return to p…
There was modest good news on the inflation front in September as producer prices rose 0.4%, with the core rate rising 0.1% — two readings that suggest the nation is avoiding deflation, a period of sustained price declines that could push the nation …