A quiet week for earnings, along with new reports on consumer credit, consumer sentiment, economic optimism, wholesale trade, the U.S. trade balance and federal budget balance, should give the stock markets a chance to settle d…
Do celebrity board members help a company? Surprisingly, recent research suggests that celebrity board appointments can add as much as 2% to the price of a company’s stock. Here are eight well-known individuals from different b…
A fresh batch of data show that the job market may finally have turned the corner despite last month’s uptick in the national unemployment rate to 9.6%. Among them: Fewer initial claims for unemployment and a smallest monthly l…