Amid a bounce back in manufacturing activity, surging commodity prices are leading to fears of inflationary forces. Those forces are real, but corporate profits — and therefore, stock prices — won’t suffer too quickly. The pa…
With an oversupply of oil on the market and OPEC afraid that higher prices will impair the U.S. recovery and sap demand, the fundamentals point to an oil price drop in the near term. Yes, markets move on emotion, and fears abo…
The bank now say positive trends in consumer spending, employment and the stock market will likely boost U.S. economic growth higher than the 3% most analysts had previously predicted. Deutsche’s chief equity strategist is pred…
The economy may be rebounding, but the benefits have yet to filter down to the hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans. Here’s the story of one homeless mother: how she wound up in a shelter in a tough town and how the worl…
Upon taking office in 2009, Obama inherited two costly wars and an economy that had violently imploded just months before. What’s changed since then? Quite a bit — some for the better, some not. Here’s a midterm progress repor…