| US economy improving, stronger jobs growth: Expert Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders believes that the American economy is improving, and the potential for giving jobs to the unemployed is getting stronger.
"Its pretty close... | |
| Rand at 7.56 against US dollar The rand was softer against the dollar in early morning trade on Monday as it tracked a euro that had fallen in Asian trade on concerns over the current Greek debt... |
| Micron Names Duncan CEO Following Appleton's Death who died Friday in a plane crash in Boise . Duncan had been president and COO; he has previously served as chief technology officer. Duncan joined the company in 1984. The company also named... |
| See The New 'Avengers' Extended Trailer From The Super Bowl aired during the Super Bowl today, and boy was it ever an eye-full. Among other things, it gave us our first full look at the Hulk — and it looks like all the kinks have finally been worked... |
| Cezanne's Card Players Shatters Record For Highest Price Ever For A Work Of Art Paul Czanne's The Card Players, recently purchased by Qatar's royal family for an estimated $250 million. Qatar just shed its art rookie status for good. The world's richest nation has... |
| Amazon Reportedly Plans To Open Retail Store In Seattle the blog Good E-Reader reports , citing ';sources close to the situation.'; The site asserts that the store will focus on selling Kindle e-readers, the Kindle Fire tablet, and related... |
| The Geek Playlist: Supervillain Songs Image via Wikipedia Welcome to the ongoing saga that is the Geek Playlist! For those of you just joining us, I've featured five songs available on Spotify, each centered around a weekly theme.... |
| Oil near $97 amid signs US economy improving SINGAPORE — Oil prices fell slightly to near $97 a barrel Monday in Asia despite signs U.S. economic growth is improving. Benchmark crude for March delivery was down 39 cents at $97.45 a... |
| Metals Stocks: Gold, silver futures fall in Asian trading SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures declined in electronic trading Monday, part of a broader sell-off across commodity markets, while the U.S. dollar turned... |
| Money Talks: 5 money moves an Asia stock-fund manager is making SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- As the Year of the Dragon -- a highly auspicious symbol of the Chinese Zodiac -- begins, money manager Khiem Do says there's fire in China's... |
| Earnings Outlook: Cisco expected to show stability, strength SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Cisco Systems is expected to report gains in both sales and earnings for its second fiscal quarter on Wednesday, with analysts looking for signs of strength and... |
| Observing Super Bowl Sunday (Credit: Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET) Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers manage to connect with consumers?... |
| Did the Super Bowl Ads Connect with the New Heartland? Image by Getty Images via @daylife Let's be honest. Very few30-second Super Bowl adsare really worth $3.5 million, no matter how huge the audience, especially ifa measurable sales lift isthe... |
| Madonna Rocks The Super Bowl Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Who wasn’t won over by Madonna’s half time performance at the Super Bowl? The 12 minutes or so mini-concert proved the Madonna remains an original... |
| On M.I.A. Flipping the Bird and Super Bowl Rebellion Image via Wikipedia The Super Bowl isn’t just about football. It’s a cultural juggernaut, with every second providing ample opportunity for a new commercial, gadget or personality to take... |
| Think Different: The Company Growing Faster Than Facebook in registration for an initial public offering, the question is top of mind for investors in technology stocks. Facebook generated $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, and a cool $1 billion in net... |
| The Underrated Architect of The Giants' Super Bowl Dynasty How can you be the architect of a championship team in the nation’s biggest media market, and be not only underrated but virtually unknown? Just ask New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese.... |
| Lucio Tan May Be Ready To Sell Loss-Making Philippines Airlines Image via Wikipedia Philippine tycoons are circling Philippine Airlines (PAL), a loss-making asset in Lucio Tan’s corporate empire. Potential buyers for Tan’s majority stake include food... |
| Currencies: Dollar index edges higher versus rivals SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- The dollar index edged higher on Monday, taking back some recent losses linked to better-than-expected U.S. economic... |
| Marsh on Monday: Huhne scandal comes at a bad time for Cameron LONDON (MarketWatch) -- In European public life, there are some reassuringly immutable laws of behavior. If ministers or top officials in Germany have to resign, it's nearly always about... |
| Peter Brimelow: Stocks hmmm — gold maybe? Thus another astrology-friendly letter, Crawford Perspectives, and another cycles letter, Peter Eliades' Stockmarket Cycles, were triumphantly among the very few to make money in the Crash year... |
| ETF Focus: Stock ETFs to consider if Europe gets it together For those already in the European markets, it's been no holiday. Europe-focused stock mutual funds lost 15% on average in 2011, and their exchange-traded-fund counterparts shed 17%, according to... |
| TaxWatch: Tax tips for February Tax-time confusion over capital gains New cost-basis reporting rules may trip up investors when they go to report their capital gains and losses, come tax... |
| John Shinal's Tech Investor: Facebook and the future of public markets The company achieved this enviable competitive position before it even filed for an initial offering of stock, which means Facebook didn't need the public stock markets to grow into a company... |
| Andrea Coombes' Ways and Means: With interest rates low, do annuities make sense? SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Investors approaching retirement and worried about the negative effect of a volatile market on their savings might want to give annuities a closer look -- even though... |
| Giants beat Patriots in Super Bowl New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz (80) makes a catch for a touchdown as New England Patriots safety James Ihedigbo (44) defends during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game... |
| Tax Trivia Giveaway #6: Presidential Election Fund Image via Wikipedia Our next tax trivia question is: Taxpayers may indicate on their tax returns that money be given to the Presidential Election Campaign Fun. About how much money was given to the... |
| Woman Has Jaw Replaced With A 3-D Printed Jaw Computer generated 3D image of the patient with the final design of the implant in blue. (Credit: Xilloc) A team of medical researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands has... |
| Chrysler is king of the Super Bowl spots NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Once again, Chrysler's Super Bowl ad won the hearts and minds of football fans, this time with a little help from Clint Eastwood and, of course, Detroit."It was... |
| Caixin Online: China drafts law on occupational disease Caixin Online ) -- In 2009, factory worker Zhang Haichao made headlines when he voluntarily underwent open-chest surgery to prove that he had contracted pneumoconiosis, also known as "black lung... |
| Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free (Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note. So here we were,... |
| The Murder of Susan Powell's Two Young Boys by the Hands of their Father Washington , to the home of his father, Steven Powell. He was already a suspect, he had a lawyer, so why was he allowed to leave the state. And why was his demonstration of a total lack of concern... |
| The Mobile Pivot: Pyxis becomes Verivo Software Every company I speak with is building mobile software for its customers (B2C) or its employees (B2E). In effect, the entire software market is morphng before our eyes as the world deals with... |
| Caixin Online: The basics of Chinese inbound investment deals Caixin Online ) -- An accelerating number of Chinese companies are engaging in acquisitions and joint ventures in the United States and while it's generally understood that a large number of... |
| Asia Markets: Asian shares climb after U.S. data SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Asian shares climbed on Monday, with commodity and exporters outperforming after data indicated that the U.S. economy is... |
| Craig Stephen's This Week in China: Hong Kong tiptoes into slump Last week, Financial Secretary John Tsang doled out HK$80 billion ($10.3 billion) in sweeteners in his budget after ending the fiscal year with a HK$67 billion... |
| The Super Bowl ads: Tech winners and losers The Super Bowl is a game in which even the punters get excited. It's also a game in which America looks at ads that tell it how the corporate world sees, well, America. If the tone of ads is... |
| US Economy Remains Focus of Presidential Race While the White House hails data showing an improved U.S. labor market, Republican presidential contenders continue to blast President Barack Obama's economic performance. It is the central... |
| AMD's Risky and Disruptive Ultrathin Notebook Strategy Last week, I attended AMD's annual Financial Analyst Day at their Corporate Headquarters in Sunnyvale. They outlined their future corporate and product strategies as well as rolling out their... |
| My Big Fat 2012 Super Bowl Non-Prediction Boston (well, okay, New England). Two of the top quarterbacks, receivers, and coaches in the game. A powerful, fast and frighteningly ferocious Giants defensive line versus the world-class Pro Bowl... |
| Ford calls foul on Chevy Super Bowl ad NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- General Motors ignored a request from Ford Motor Co. and ran a humorous Chevrolet truck ad during the Super Bowl that takes a slap at Ford.The ad shows a group of men who have... |
| Australian shares jump, miners up SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australian shares jumped Monday, after a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report helped to buoy investor... |
| Celebs storm Twitter on #SuperBowl Sunday CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- As the Patriots and Giants geared up for kickoff, celebrities and other notables took to Twitter in force on Super Bowl Sunday to enthuse and prognosticate, to name drop and... |
| iPad, Kindle Fire are not post-PC, says IDC analyst (Credit: Amazon) Are we in a post-PC era as the late Steve Jobs famously claimed? Not really, says IDC. This ivory-tower debate resurfaced this... |
