If you glanced at just one or two headlines from last week’s reports on the U.S. economy, you might have concluded that things haven’t changed that much. In fact, digging deeper reveals that business conditions are improving. E…
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…
Wall Street shrugged off instability in Egypt to rally to a two-and-a-half year high Tuesday, boosted by encouraging economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings.
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Ford Motor said sales of its cars and trucks rose 13.3% in January on improved demand by consumers, bucking last year’s trend, when sales to fleet customers largely drove the increase. For the month, the automaker sold 127,317 …
A slowly brightening economy combined with low financing rates and generally stable fuel prices have put consumers in a buying mood. New models, particularly from Ford and GM, are also helping to keep U.S. auto sales on a posit…