U.S. consumer confidence rebounded in August to the strongest reading in seven months after having fallen sharply in July. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its index of consumer confidence increased …
With the immediate prospect of an ongoing crash set aside at least for the moment, an investor’s greatest risk is perhaps being hit by an errantly thrown cliché.
Americans stepped up their purchases of new homes in July, with sales surging in the Northeast. The Commerce Department says new-home sales rose 5.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate …
U.S. home prices rose solidly in June, another sign of health in the housing market. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5 percent from a year earlier, a slight improvement …
U.S. home rents jumped in July as house prices showed signs of flagging. Real estate data firm Zillow said Tuesday that rents rose a seasonally adjusted 4.2 percent from a year ago. The higher rents suggest …
If you weren’t paying attention to the stock market before Monday, you are now. A 1,000-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average will do that. As the financial blogger Ben Carlson pointed out this …
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank cut interest rates and lowered the amount of reserves banks must hold for the second time in two months on Tuesday, ratcheting up support for a stuttering economy and a plunging stock market that has sent shockwaves around the globe. The moves came after Chinese stocks tumbled again on Tuesday, as investors despaired at the lack of policy action from Beijing in response to
President Barack Obama on Monday accused fossil fuel interests and other critics of his energy policies of trying to restrict consumers from accessing solar, wind and other renewable sources in order to …
Disneyland might be the happiest place on earth, but it became the luckiest one Monday when the Beckham family arrived for a day of fun! David Beckham was spotted toting around daughter…
This has been the longest 5 months of our lives. There was life before March 25, 2015, and there has been what “life” is since then. That fateful spring day marks the…
