Bernanke to the Hill: Will the Fed Signal More Easing?
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke heads to Capitol Hill Thursday to testify before a Senate committee on the state of the economy.
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Facebook Takes Another Hit: Users Spend Less Time on Site, Ads Don’t Lead to Sales
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Facebook ( FB ) just can't catch a break.
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Finance CEO Pay Rose 20% in 2011, Even As Stocks Stumbled
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! 2011 was not a particularly good year for financial stocks: 35 of the 50-largest financial company stocks fell last year, with the sector losing over 17% vs. a flat performance for the S&P 500
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Jobs Preview: “On the Edge of Barely Acceptable”
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! A trio of reports Thursday -- ADP payrolls, weekly jobless claims and a downward revision to first-quarter GDP -- reinforced a perception the U.S. economy has slowed considerably since early 2012. Taken together, the reports simultaneously raised the stakes and lowered expectations for Friday's already crucial government jobs report.
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Record Low Interest Rates Stiff Savers and the Economy
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Fearing the European debt crisis will continue to deteriorate, investors have piled into U.S. Treasuries in a flight for safety. The yield on the benchmark U.S
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Gold Will Rise Again: Mike Pento Sees $1800 By Year-End
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Gold prices have tumbled 20 percent from their August 2011 record highs above $1,900 an ounce. The precious metal closed down more than 1% Tuesday to $1,548.70 after rating agency Egan-Jones downgraded Spanish debt and investors flocked from the Eurozone credit crisis to U.S.
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SEC Dropping Lehman Case: Where’s the Outrage?
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! After more than three years of investigating the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S.
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Movie Theaters Bank On Summer Blockbusters To Boost Ticket Sales
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! This summer's crop of movie blockbusters are already shattering box office records and driving up attendance at the nation's movie theaters, giving big returns to major Hollywood studios and theater owners before the official start of the summer popcorn movie season this Memorial Day weekend. Walt Disney Studios' ( DIS ) "The Avengers" has already surpassed $1 billion in international ticket sales since hitting theaters earlier this month
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Facebook Is Killing Silicon Valley: Entrepreneur
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Serial tech entrepreneur and professor Steve Blank argues that Facebook and the "social media" craze are ruining Silicon Valley's innovation machine. How? By making venture capitalists so greedy that they're only funding companies that could be worth billions of dollars in a couple of years
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Keystone Pipeline: Good or Bad for Gas Prices?
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Congress has just over a month to pass a $106 billion transportation bill that would pave the way for new highways, railways and bridges in this country.
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