Dream Stocks for Growth Investors
Motley Fool
A trailing three-year earnings-per-share growth rate of at least 25%. A trailing three-year revenue growth rate of at least 25%. A price-to-earnings ratio of less than 25. Then we'll tap the collective intelligence of our CAPS members to se...
UK services grow at fastest rate in two years
Times Online
Britain's services sector grew at the fastest rate in more than two years during October, giving renewed hope that the economy will pull out of recession by the end of the year. The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply's Purchasing Ma...
US Stocks Higher On Weaker Dollar; Fed Rate Decision Awaited
Marketwatch
Stocks clung to broad-based gains Wednesday afternoon, helped by weakness in the dollar as investors awaited the latest policy announcement from the Federal Reserve's interest-rate committee. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently up...
RBA Tones Down Rate Rhetoric as Aussie Nears Parity (Update2)
Bloomberg
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australia’s central bank Governor Glenn Stevens signaled a surge in the nation’s currency to near parity with the U.S. dollar has given him scope to slow the pace of future interest-rate increases . Stevens, who yester...
Stocks jump on more growth at service companies
YAHOO!
Policy makers aren't expected to raise the Fed's benchmark interest rate from essentially zero, hoping to sustain an economic turnaround by keeping borrowing rates low. But investors will be looking for the Fed's take on the 3.5 percent ann...
West Virginia Tops US for Sleeplessness
AOL
West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness. West Virginians\' lack of sleep was about double the national rate, perhaps a side effec...
Fed Sees No Need to Raise Rates Soon
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that it isn’t close to raising interest rates, saying the economy remains weak even though the recession appears to be over. The central bank said it would keep its benchmark interest r...
Federal Reserve again pledges to hold rates at record-lows
Cleveland Plain Dealer
WASHINGTON -- With the recession apparently over, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday held a key interest rate at a record low and again pledged to keep it there for an "extended period" to foster the fragile economic recovery. The Fed said ec...
US Fed maintains Funds Rate on hold at 0.25%
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Blackboard Asks: "Recession? What Recession?"
Motley Fool
Or at least, that's what my calculator tells me as I crunch Blackboard's run-rate. Management, in contrast, is not quite so optimistic -- positing cashflow of only $95 million to $105 million by year-end. Assuming that's all it manages to d...
Local wage increases outpace national average
Boston Globe
Total compensation costs rose in Greater Boston at twice the rate of the next closest metro areas, Philadelphia and Washington, which each saw 1.6 percent increases. Of the 15 large metropolitan areas tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statisti...
JPMorgan Pays $75 Million to Settle Jefferson County Swap Probe
Bloomberg
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $75 million and forfeit another $647 million in interest-rate swap termination fees to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the sale of derivatives that helped ...
Prostate cancer screening gets another look
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Comparing the number of deaths in each group, the study found that screening reduced the rate of death from prostate cancer by 20 percent. That success, though, came by treating a high number of patients who would not be expected to die fro...
