Commodities; Crude Oil ends the Week 2.3% Lower, Nat Gas Gains 4.4%
Commodities; Crude Oil ends the Week 2.3% Lower, Nat Gas Gains 4.4% Jul Crude Oil lifted off its session low of 93.04 set moments after floor trade opened and trended higher for the remainder of the session. Despite a good effort, the energy component settled 3 cents in the Red at 94.11, slightly below its [...]
Why No Sackings at the IRS?
Why No Sackings at the IRS? Why does Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups, still have her job? Ms. Lerner was placed on administrative leave Friday, just a day after refusing to answer questions before a congressional committee investigating the [...]
Detroit’s Emergency Proposal to Sell its Art
Detroit’s Emergency Proposal to Sell its Art Consider this, your are a home owner, you are broke and are about to lose your home. You have a valuable painting that has been in your family for generations. The Big Q: Should you sell it to raise money? That is the question stirring up controversy in [...]
Unions Angry With Obamacare Consequences
Unions Angry With Obamacare Consequences When US President Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through the US Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters. But now some unions leaders have grown frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected consequences of the new law, problems that they say could jeopardize the [...]
KKR NYSE:KKR Bids for Hulu
KKR NYSE:KKR Bids for Hulu DIS, NWS, NWSA, CMCSA KKR & Co. has made a bid for Hulu LLC, while Silver Lake Partners has joined with talent agency William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC in a bid for the video site, it was reported Friday. Hulu’s owners include News Corp. NASDAQ:NWS, NWSA, Walt Disney Co. NYSE:DIS, [...]
Baker Hughes NYSE:BHI Weekly US Nat Gas Rig Count Steady at 354
Baker Hughes NYSE:BHI Weekly US Nat Gas Rig Count Steady at 354 The number of Nat Gas-drilling rigs working in the US was unchanged in the latest week at 354, according to Oil-field services company Baker Hughes Inc. NYSE:BHI. The figure was down 240 from a year ago. The number of Oil rigs fell by [...]
Maserati Recall
Maserati to recall 692 vehicles in China Luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari will recall 692 vehicles imported by the Chinese mainland due to defective rear tie-rods, China’s quality supervisor said Friday. The recall by Ferrari-Maserati Cars Sales and Services (Shanghai) Co. will cover Maserati’s Quattroporte and Maserati Granturismo models manufactured between 31 July 2003 and [...]
Putin’s letter to Obama covers all Hot Topics
Putin’s letter to Obama covers all Hot Topics Nearly all hot topics on Russia-US relations have been mentioned in a letter sent by President Vladimir Putin to his US counterpart Barack Obama, the Kremlin said Friday. According to presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Putin stressed in his letter that Moscow’s vision on issues concerning the missile [...]
US Treasuries Flat, US Dollar Down
US Treasuries Flat, US Dollar Down 10-Yr: +01/32..2.014%.. USD/JPY: 100.90.. EUR/USD: 1.2915 Afternoon Update 2-yr UNCH @ 99 24/32 3-yr UNCH @ 99 16/32 5-yr UNCH @ 98 22/32 7-yr UNCH @ 98 09/32 10-yr +01/32 @ 97 20/32 30-yr +08/32 @ 94 06/32 EUR/USD -15 pips @ 1.2915 GBP/USD +10 pips @ 1.5115 USD/JPY [...]
Gold Survey Participants Split on Views
Gold Survey Participants Split on Views There is a 50/50 split Bull/Bear-Netural; between Gold survey participants this week, of the 30+ participants, 28 responded this week, 14 see prices up, while 9 see prices down and 5 see prices moving sideways or are Neutral. The participants are; bullion dealers, investment banks, futures traders, money managers [...]
America’s Oldest Veteran to Spend Memorial Day at Home in Texas
America’s Oldest Veteran to Spend Memorial Day at Home in Texas On this Memorial Day, Richard A. Overton, 107 anni, who saw many of his fellow soldiers fall in the line of duty in World War II and more die over the following years, is planning a quiet day at the Texas home he built [...]
IMF expresses confidence in Chief Lagarde during probe
IMF expresses confidence in Chief Lagarde during probe The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) board expressed confidence in Christine Lagarde Thursday as the global lender’s managing director answered questions in a French court over alleged abuse of office during her time as French finance minister. The IMF’s 24-member executive board had been briefed on the matter, [...]
Large Tungsten Deposit Discovered in East China
Large Tungsten Deposit Discovered in East China Geologists have discovered a large Tungsten deposit in east China’s Jiangxi Province, officials said Thursday. More than 1-M tonnes of Tungsten and associated Copper have been found at the mine in the Zhuxi mineral area of Fuliang County in the northeast part of the province, said Peng Zezhou, [...]
British Q-1 economic growth estimate kept at 0.3%
British Q-1 economic growth estimate kept at 0.3% The British economy grew by 0.3% in Q-1 of Y 2013 according to the latest estimate released by the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) Thursday. The ONS said Britain’s GDP in volume terms increased by 0.3% compared with Q-4 of Y 2012, unchanged from the previous [...]
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China Economy in for a Shock
Thursday’s PMI revived investor worries about whether China can sustain an economic revival this year, after annual growth slumped to a 13-year trough in 2012. China’s factory output and investment performance for April released earlier …
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Commodities; Crude Oil ends the Week 2.3% Lower, Nat Gas Gains 4.4%
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Roulette, The Devil’s Game
All of the numbers on a Roulette Wheel add up to 666, hence, that is why roulette is referred to as “The Devil’s Game.”
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