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And so the game continues. Heading into every quarter, analysts tend to tamp down their earnings forecasts, helping many companies to exceed the newly-lowered estimates modestly. During the past few years, this has enabled roughly 55% to 60% of companies beat the consensus estimates each quarter. The early read on the first quarter of 2012: [...]

(photo credit: Wikipedia) General Electric (GE) is moving rapidly to establish its imprint and influence in clean, renewable energy. Its most recent move is to partner with a tiny company it believes has a foothold in the complex multi-billion dollar clean-energy storage market. GE has signed a “business cooperation agreement” with little [...]

Hearing that I’m one of those oddballs who is still investing in the stock market, people ask me things like “Are shares cheap?” or “Is it a good time to put money into an ISA?”1 Invariably I waffle in reply that regularly saving into a cheap diversified portfolio over the long-term is a good practice [...]

Industry veteran Van Eck is adding the Market Vectors Wide Moat Research ETF (MOAT) to its global lineup of over 50 offerings. The new Van Eck ETF, which began trading this morning on the NYSE Arca, will offer exposure to equity markets with a twist; MOAT is based on the concept of ” wide moats” [...]

Michael Baron 04/25/12 – 06:56 PM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) — And that’s the power of Apple(AAPL). What may have more to do with whether stocks can build on this rally is how the market ultimately interprets the mixed message sent by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday afternoon as the central bank’s members telegraphed growing [...]

Seaspray Beach Resort located in Palm Beach Shores, Florida is scheduled to be auctioned on June 8th, 2012 @ 11am, on the hotel premises. PALM BEACH SHORES, Fla., April 25, 2012 /CNW/ – The upswing has arrived and oceanfront real estate in South Florida seems to be the item on everyone’s wish list. The seller [...]

Given the technical backdrop already in place, the market will need an Apple a day to get back on track. The market’s biggest stock exploded higher after handily beating earnings projections after the bell Tuesday, but it may not be enough. Clearly, it was a welcome development, but it did not reverse technical breakdowns already [...]

Market Capitalization of Companies I’ll admit, I’m a bit of a statistics nerd, but I’m an extremely visual person as well. Everyday, we talk about, invest in, and shop at tons of different companies. Often, we walk into these massive stores, and we just assume that they are these mega companies, but this is a [...]

Smells Like Team Spirit (Image via Cloudbreak Group). Believe or not, the Yankees –yes, those Yankees — have entered the crowded fragrance market. The New York Yankees have rolled out a cologne for men and a perfume for women created by the fragrance developer, Cloudbreak Group. Cost? A 3.4-ounce bottle retails for [...]

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is up 55.41 to 2,694.14. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 20,299,691 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session :Sprint Nextel Corporation ( S ) is +0.15 at $2.62, with 12,589,485 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 5 up revisions for [...]

Strong corporate earnings results helped the Dow and S&P 500 settle in the green, whereas selling pressure on Apple left the Nasdaq languishing in the red. It was the Dow alone which gained significantly, while the S&P 500′s choppy run ended with marginal gains during the final hours. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) gained [...]

By David MoenningChief Investing Strategist, StateoftheMarkets.com  A good chunk of first quarter’s joyride to the upside was attributed to the performance of a little company named Apple (AAPL). What is now the world’s largest company had what has come to be known as an outsized impact on many of the stock market indices, causing one [...]

April 25, 2012 NEW YORK, April 25, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that the trading of Envivio, a leader in solutions for live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery, commenced on The NASDAQ Stock Market on April 25, 2012. Envivio is listed on the NASDAQ Global [...]

The outcome of this November’s presidential election may be tied to how well the stock market has performed the last three years, according to a recent study published by the Socionomics Institute . The study found a significant relationship between the outcome of presidential elections and the net change in the stock market for the [...]

Van Eck Global, the New York-based fund provider behind the Market Vectors ETFs, today rolled out an ETF that’s built around Warren Buffett’s “moat” concept of investing in undervalued companies that show sustainable competitive advantages over their counterparts. The Market Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat Research ETF (NYSEArca:MOAT) is designed to serve up access to good [...]

MORNING REPORT(7am AEST) The Federal Reserve has kept the policy target range for the federal funds rate at zero to 0.25 basis points. The Fed said the economy has been expanding moderately but vowed to keep rates at exceptionally low rates to 2014. Fed chief Ben Bernanke said that ´´we think monetary policy is in [...]

Coal is still the world’s default source of energy for electricity, as it’s cheap and abundant. But this view is increasingly being challenged by rising costs of new production and cheaper alternatives. Coal currently meets 42 percent of the world’s electricity demand and the World Coal Association expects use of the fuel to climb 53 [...]

Jennifer Kwan, Reuters  Apr 25, 2012 – 11:09 AM ET | Last Updated: Apr 25, 2012 11:15 AM ET Reuters Prices fell for the third time in four months. TORONTO — Canadian home resale prices sagged in February from January, the Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index showed on Wednesday, and the pace of year-over-year [...]

By Kate Gibson, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks climbed for a second day Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq Composite back above 3,000 for the first time this week, as investors cheered Apple Inc.’s better-than-forecast earnings. [...]

Models pose with Samsung Electronics’ new mirrorless cameras, the NX200, at a launch event in Seoul September 29, 2011. (REUTERS/Choi Jae-gu/Yonhap) Report an error SINGAPORE — While most attention in the gadget world is on the breakneck pace of innovation in mobile phones, tablets and computers, another device has resolutely refused to die: the [...]

The market is on the move. An April 2 article in TheWall Street Journal noted that “the eurozone has stepped back from the brink of collapse, the U.S. economy is showing continued signs of life, and central banks have extended efforts to support economic growth.” The piece, by Tom Lauricella, continues with the idea that the [...]

By WSJ Staff BEIJING—Competition is intensifying in the lucrative market for luxury cars in China as upstarts such as Cadillac and Infiniti look to take on popular stalwarts like Audi and BMW just as signs of a slowdown appear in the world’s largest auto market. General Motors Co. on Monday said the U.S. auto maker will [...]

Michael Baron 04/24/12 – 09:30 PM EDT Updated from 5:39 p.m. ET to include additional commentary on the FOMC meeting, after-hours action. NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Don’t look now but the thesis that earnings are going to improve as the year wears on is starting to show some cracks. According to Thomson Reuters data, the [...]

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is down -5.75 to 2,647.75. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 12,651,109 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session :Bank of America Corporation ( BAC ) is +0.07 at $8.25, with 1,913,420 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 12 up revisions [...]

Axel Merk, who filed last month for permission to market an ETF version of his Merk Hard Currency Fund, now plans to add a physical gold ETF to his firm’s planned footprint in the exchange-traded fund industry. The Merk Gold Trust, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange’s electronic trading platform Arca, under [...]

MARKET CLOSE(4.30pm AEST) The Australian sharemarket rose for the first time this week, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) edging higher by 0.1 pct or 3.6 pts to 4433.9. Yesterday was the second quietest day for the Aussie market however today was a little busier. The Australian and New Zealand markets will be closed tomorrow [...]

Introduction Since I last wrote about the case for investing in the graphite market, there have been noteworthy developments I’ve learned that make me increasingly bullish on the market’s prospects in the coming years. Last week, Industrial Minerals, the leading source for information on the graphite market, posted a report about the increasingly tight conditions [...]

TheStreet Guest Contributor 04/23/12 – 11:55 AM EDT The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet’s guest contributor program, which is separate from the company’s news coverage. By Doug Roberts, chief investment strategist for Channel Capital Research. NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The recent stock market rally occurred in [...]

Michael Baron 04/23/12 – 09:29 PM EDT Updated from 6:44 p.m. ET to include additional information about Tuesday’s economic data. NEW YORK (TheStreet) — One odd little factoid about the broad market’s rally off the October lows is that earnings expectations for the first quarter were falling steadily throughout. Now that reporting season is finally [...]

Dave Fry 04/23/12 – 07:53 PM EDT NEW YORK (ETF Digest) — Eurozone issues stole the show on Monday… again. An austerity deal in the Netherlands hit a stalemate, meaning the country could lose its AAA rating. In France election results weren’t kind to Sarkozy and it’s uncertain, especially with the strong right wing showing, [...]

Beginning May 5, Goose Lake Farm and Winery will once again be home to an artisan and farmers market. This is the market’s third season, which Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Oct. 27. Goose Lake Farm and Winery in Nowthen serves as home base for an artisan and farmers market that runs [...]

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A SPLA soldier walks in a market destroyed in an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona near Bentiu April 23, 2012. (Goran Tomasevic/REUTERS) Report an error OUTSIDE BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN -  Sudanese war planes bombed a market in the capital of South Sudan’s oil-producing Unity State on Monday, residents and officials said, an [...]

MONTREAL, April 23, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – GURU Energy Drink announced today the launch of a new design for its packaging and visual identity. The updated design features energy, motion and the authentic nature of the product’s ingredients. It will be rolled-out in Canada and the United States, where GURU’s growth outpaces the fast expanding [...]

Matt Hartley  Apr 23, 2012 – 11:41 AM ET | Last Updated: Apr 23, 2012 4:42 PM ET Handout/Apple Apple iPad3, with iPhoto on the screen. As global demand for touchscreen tablets spreads from established to emerging markets and from living rooms into the boardrooms of the corporate world, Apple Inc.’s iPad appears well-positioned to [...]

Jason Lee/Reuters A model stands next to a Lamborghini sports car at Auto China 2012 in Beijing April 23, 2012. Global car makers are counting on China to maintain growth in their premium offerings, even as all the signs point to an overall slowing in the world’s largest auto market. BEIJING — Global car makers [...]

By NICHOLAS SPIRO AND STEPHEN POPE A disenchanted French electorate has delivered its preliminary verdict. It wants change and is expected to grudgingly back François Hollande, the Socialist candidate, in the decisive second round of the presidential election on May 6. Antipathy toward his opponent, President Nicolas Sarkozy, was always going to be the key [...]

High-yield supply and demand around the globe is increasing and is set to be met, in part, by the growing emergence of high-yield exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Although high-yield ETFs are still in their infancy – especially in Europe – two new funds focusing on international high-yield debt were launched this month, and [...]

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is down -16.39 to 2,659.65. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 12,970,649 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session :Bank of America Corporation ( BAC ) is -0.3 at $8.06, with 5,410,586 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 6 up revisions [...]

Three Factors Determine if You Make Money in the MarketTarget Your Wins and Losses—Last month I wrote a column for Cabot Wealth Advisory titled You Have to Treat Options Differently . Afterward, I received an email from a reader who asked how you can make money without winning at least 60-70% of the time. The [...]

A slew of strong corporate results countered the slump in financial and technology shares to help benchmarks end mixed. The Dow and S&P 500 ended modestly higher on Friday and recorded their first weekly gains for the month. The Nasdaq not only finished in the negative territory on Friday, but also lost out on a [...]

Zacks highlights commentary from People and Picks Member «JohntheWizard».For more Voice of the People, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=7872 Featured Post Worrying About Apple’s 10% Drop in Market Value? What is all the fuss about one single stock? Are we trying to convince small investors here to play the big game and joining the bets of the professionals? [...]

Rumors flooded the web this weekend that giant Chinese web portal Baidu ( BIDU , quote ) and Foxconn, the notorious manufacturer of iPhones and iPads, have been holding secret discussions ostensibly over the production of a Baidu-branded phone a la Google’s Nexus. Assuming the rumors’ veracity, is this reason to go long the stock? [...]

The euro-zone private sector slowed in April according to latest data. The ´´flash´´ composite purchasing managers index fell from 49.1 to 47.4 in April with services down from 49.2 to 47.9 and manufacturing down from 47.7 to 46.0. European shares slumped to three-month lows on Monday. There was uncertainty about who will eventually become French [...]

A Taxing Issue for Investors Jeffrey Kleintop, CFAChief Market StrategistLPL Financial Highlights Perhaps surprisingly, it appears that the tax rate changes have played little or no direct role in stock or bond market performance. The most likely reason is that the effects on after-tax returns were deemed negligible relative to the macroeconomic and geopolitical drivers. [...]

What Investors Should Watch This Earnings Season Jeffrey Kleintop, CFAChief Market StrategistLPL Financial Highlights While macroeconomic data and events are likely to remain key drivers of the market this week, microeconomics will also garner investors’ attention as companies begin to release first quarter earnings reports. In each of the past two years, as the last [...]

The Election Impact: The Presidency Jeffrey Kleintop, CFAChief Market StrategistLPL Financial Highlights During the next six months, the elections will likely become an increasingly potent driver of financial markets. There has been no significant performance difference in the year after the presidential election based purely on which political party won the White House. Instead, the [...]

HOME Market Trends Property of the week New Homes Commercial Home » Estate Agents London » Q1 Review – Lettings Market 2012 Q1 Review – Lettings Market 2012 Posted on Apr 12, 2012 | 7 comments KEY FACTORS: 200% increase in Q1 activity (year on year) Lack of demand in high end properties Olympic rents [...]

By Justin Boyle A freelance designer friend of mine recently asked me how to find the best high-yield savings accounts for her rainy-day reserves. As often happens with issues of personal finance in today’s economic climate, this is a simple question with a fairly complex answer. Rates have been flagging on high-interest savings accounts in [...]

Posted by Kevin McKee on April 17, 2012 At the beginning of the year I decided to do a stock market experiment to see if randomly picking stocks is better or worse than expert picks. And to make it more interesting, I added a few more “funds” like a collection of stocks picked by personal [...]

Medicaid Medicare Health Reform Policy Pharma Providers Health Plans Innovations More Home » Health Care Policy » Health Reform Implementation: Milestones for State Implementation of Health Insurance Exchanges, Medicaid Expansion, and Health Insurance Market Reforms Health Reform Implementation: Milestones for State Implementation of Health Insurance Exchanges, Medicaid Expansion, and Health Insurance Market Reforms Published on [...]

Medicaid Medicare Health Reform Policy Pharma Providers Health Plans Innovations More Home » Health Care Policy » Health Costs and Spending » Medical Devices and the FDA: FDA Taking Longer to Approve New Medical Devices for U.S. Market Medical Devices and the FDA: FDA Taking Longer to Approve New Medical Devices for U.S. Market Published [...]

Reader question: Do you have any rules for investing based on the economy or some examples of trades based the economy? Definitely – I have rules and examples. Let’s talk about a few example trades where I entered a position based on the macro view, and then my three awesome rules for making safer wagers [...]

Avison Young releases its First Quarter 2012 Greater Toronto Area Office Market Report TORONTO, April 23, 2012 /CNW/ – Coming off a strong performance in 2011, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) office market paused in the opening quarter of 2012. The suburban market realized a net gain in occupied space to start the year; however, [...]

Browse > Home / Economy, MarketMash, Markets, PODCASTS, SHOW NOTES / TDI Podcast: DAS is Back! Market Trend, China Implosion and EuroZone Troubles (#260) TDI Podcast: DAS is Back! Market Trend, China Implosion and EuroZone Troubles (#260) April 22, 2012 9:50 pm Guest: Satyajit Das explains how China is doing and provides insight into the [...]

Finding Alpha in Israel’s Emerging Market Apr 19th, 2012 | Filed under: Alpha Hunters, Alpha Strategies, Today’s Post | By: vshah Since the nation’s establishment in 1948, Israel has existed in a perpetual state of conflict.  There is little doubt that these conflicts have had a negative impact on the country’s stability and relations.  The [...]

This is probably going to make me sound a little OCD, but when we decided to buy a play kitchen, I obsessed over which one was going to be perfect for us. It’s not a small purchase (in cost or girth!) so I felt pretty justified burning the midnight oil comparing every tiny detail. With [...]

By Dividend.com Staff April 20th, 2012  Print This Article Comment on This Article It’s been a back-and-forth week for the markets, but when all was said and done, the Dow/S&P finished with gains, while the momentum-led Nasdaq index closed the week slightly lower. Plenty of big-name earnings winners were pacing part of the gains today. [...]

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is up 9.5 to 2,696.32. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 6,759,269 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session :Bank of America Corporation ( BAC ) is -0.02 at $8.75, with 3,439,208 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 5 up revisions [...]

There’s an old saying onWall Street that investors should look to the income statement for upside and the balance sheet for downside protection. But for mining and energy stocks, this axiom has been spun on its head. Income-statement metrics are forcing many of these stocks down, but their balance sheets point to the way to [...]

Strong earnings results from financial bellwethers came of no help to the markets, as dismal economic data and concerns from cross-Atlantic territory washed out the positives and dragged the benchmarks down. It was the markets’ second fall in a row. Rumors of Fitch Ratings downgrading France’s sovereign rating affected investor sentiment, but the rumors were [...]

April 20, 2012 NEW YORK, April 20, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced that Proofpoint Inc. (Nasdaq:PFPT) is trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market ®.A photo accompanying this release is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=12520 Proofpoint is a pioneering security-as-a-service provider that focuses on cloud-based solutions for threat protection, compliance, archiving [...]

April 19, 2012 NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that the trading of Splunk® Inc. (Nasdaq:SPLK) commenced on the NASDAQ Global Select Market® on Thursday, April 19, 2012 under the ticker symbol SPLK. A photo accompanying this release is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=12502 Splunk® Inc. provides [...]

April 18, 2012 New York and London, April 18, 2012 – ICAP, the world’s leading interdealer broker, announced that its electronic fixed income business BrokerTec has successfully launched with its customers a new trading system for its U.S. based products using a modified version of the NASDAQ OMX Genium INET system. The new system provides [...]

By James HyerczykCommodity Trading Advisor U.S. equity markets are called higher on Thursday after the bond auction in Spain contained no surprises and was deemed relatively successful. The auction of Spanish 10-year Bonds eased investor tension and may have temporarily numbed the pain from the thought the country would soon need a bailout. Even though [...]

Before 2012, one of the weakest parts of the iShares lineup was clearly bond funds. The company was seeing a variety of issuers gain share thanks to a variety of quality products in the fixed income space, eating into iShares’ dominance of the ETF world. However, iShares has made great strides to correct this in [...]

American stocks finished the week mixed as Microsoft and Schlumberger led on the upside while Apple, Bank of America, and Citigroup led the blue chips on the downside. Thanks to this, the Dow rose by fifty basis points while the S&P 500 added 0.1% and the Nasdaq slumped by 0.2%. This mixed session for stocks [...]

A key theme—and contention–of “Whither Japan” is that Japan’s future is inevitably and also beneficially one of increasing economic, political, and even social integration within an Asian region dominated by China.  Nothing illustrates this theme more tellingly than Japanese corporations’ growing investments in manufacturing plants in neighboring Asian countries, particularly China, and, [...]

If there’s one thing investors love it is yield. Interest rate payments on bonds and money markets in the U.S. pay next to nothing, but in emerging markets the interest is much higher. Especially in local currency debt. Russia wants in on the action and hopes to make their rouble priced bonds [...]

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — The financial sector’s recent strong performance makes it unlikely the bull market is close to a top. At least, that is the conclusion I reach from contrasting recent sector performance with their typical behavior prior to past stock market peaks. The notion that the sector performance rankings are a leading [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Corporate earnings will command the attention of investors in the coming week with about one-third of the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average reporting quarterly results. “We’re looking at the big industrials for indicators of global growth,” said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. Economic data [...]

Little Italy won’t look the same this summer to visitors seeking fresh food and local produce after cancellation of  the two-year-old  Little Italy Farmers’ Market by the Preston Street BIA. “We were not satisfied with the product last year,” says Lori Mellor, executive director of the Preston Street BIA. “We had a real challenge getting [...]

After graduating from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris, one of Europe’s leading business schools, Dominique Leca spent two years working for a Web development company doing mock-ups of iPhone and iPad applications. It was an intriguing job for someone with a business degree but the biggest lesson Mr. Leca learned in creating sketches [...]

Home Capital Group Inc. said it’s capturing mortgage business from Canadian lenders including Toronto-Dominion Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce that are retreating from the $200 billion nonprime market amid signs of a housing downturn. “The big banks are sort of juggling around their mortgage strategy and as part of that, they’re tightening up [...]

Findings of the Ordre des CRHA’s Quebec employment outlook survey for the second quarter of 2012 MONTREAL, April 20, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – After a difficult start to the year, HR professionals expect to see the job market pick up in the second quarter of 2012. That’s the main finding of the latest Flash-Emploi CRHA [...]

[graph]This graph (via The Economist) shows how much tuition fees have risen in US universities during the last few decades.The Economist article was published a couple of years ago, and it correctly pointed out that:—”For decades, college fees have risen faster than Americans’ ability to pay them. Median household income has grown by a factor [...]

Canada’s top banker suggests the housing market could be headed for trouble in parts of the country where home prices are high. In an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio’s The House, Carney told host Evan Solomon there are “issues in some segments” of the housing market but stopped short of saying a housing bubble [...]

Since the nation’s establishment in 1948, Israel has existed in a perpetual state of conflict. There is little doubt that these conflicts have had a negative impact on the country’s stability and relations. The BBC World Service Country Poll states that 49% of the more than 28,000 interviewed held a negative view on Israel’s influence [...]

Parts of the Canadian housing market, especially condominiums in some major cities, have seen prices jump to levels that warrant caution, the head of the country’s central bank said in an interview broadcast on Saturday. “There are issues, particularly in some parts of the country in the condo market, without question, where activity has been [...]

Michael Baron 04/19/12 – 09:06 PM EDT Updated from 6:00 p.m. ET to include additional information about the after-hours session. NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It’s really starting to feel like things could go either way for the stock market in the coming months. On the one hand, the economic data has been showing some cracks, [...]

Michael Baron 04/18/12 – 10:38 PM EDT Updated from 5:55 p.m. ET to include after-hours action. NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Another round of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve may not be off the table completely but the second-quarter timeframe that many market watchers were predicting at the start of the year doesn’t seem realistic [...]

Richard Saintvilus 04/18/12 – 09:56 AM EDT (The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet’s expert contributor program.) “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.” — Warren Buffett. NEW YORK (TheStreet — If you believe that a “rising tide lifts all [...]

Have you heard about Kickstarter yet? It bills itself as “a new way to fund and follow creativity,” and it’s really interesting. It allows anyone to come up with an invention (a “project” on the site) and invite other members of the creative community (or whoever else is interested) to commit to invest reasonable amounts [...]

(click to enlarge) Ten more years of low returns in the stock market. If you are one of the millions of baby boomers headed into retirement – start saving more and spending less because the stock market won’t bail you out. Now that I have your attention I will explain why this is the likely [...]

PR Newswire 04/16/12 – 12:30 PM EDT NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0840937/Cloud-Office-and-Collaboration-Productivity-Applications-Market-Shares-Strategies-and-Forecasts-Worldwide-2012-to-2018.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=IT_Hosting WinterGreen Research announces the following study: Cloud Client Productivity and Collaboration Applications [...]

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is to 2,707.85. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 12,964,938 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session:Bank of America Corporation ( BAC ) is +0.19 at $8.87, with 4,606,677 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 9 up revisions for the earnings [...]

Fears of a global financial slowdown, sparked off by worrying news from Europe and China, battered the markets down on Friday resulting in the benchmarks’ worst week this year. None of the 10 industry groups of S&P 500 could muster a finish in the green, and the index suffered its first set of consecutive declines [...]

CNBC 04/16/12 – 10:30 AM EDT By Cindy Perman, CNBC.com Staff Writer NEW YORK (CNBC) –Job growth hasn’t been as robust as many were hoping for (I’m looking at you, March jobs report) and projections are that it will take at least until 2014 to regain the millions of jobs lost during the recession — [...]

Michael Baron 04/16/12 – 09:12 PM EDT Updated from 5:30 p.m. ET to include additional information on after-hours action. NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Odd day on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a solid gain as Americans shopped up a storm in March, the S&P 500 was lethargic, and the Nasdaq slumped with [...]

Written by the FamilyMonday, April 16, 2012 02:53 PM Isabelle C. Reilly, 86, died peacefully at her Norwalk home on Friday, April 13, 2012, of natural causes, surrounded by family. Widow of Eugene L. Reilly III, Mrs. Reilly was a resident of Norwalk for 55 years. She was born in New York City on July [...]

Details Created Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:53 Written by Jaime Elliott Coral Bay harbor stretches out along the horizon. The view from the pool certainly invites day dreaming. There is plenty of seating on the shaded deck space at Day Dream. Perched atop the Estate Carolina mountainside, Day Dream boasts stunning panoramic views, steady, cooling [...]

It was bound to happen. After months of defying gravity, including a first quarter that ranked among the best since the Internet bubble years, global equities are showing distinct signs of altitude sickness. The market bears came out of their lairs early last week, only to retreat when stocks suddenly reversed course in mid-week. After [...]

These are stories Report on Business is following Monday, April 16, 2012. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Follow Michael Babad and Globe top business news on Twitter Housing market tameCanada’s overall housing market appears to be tame, though Toronto has stolen the label [...]

U.S. retail sales rose 0.8 per cent last month, the Commerce Department said Monday. That’s below February’s 1 per cent increase but above January’s pace. Some of the increase went to pay higher gas prices. Still, steeper gas hasn’t deterred Americans from spending more on other goods. Consumers spent more on building materials, autos, electronics, [...]

Prudhommes back on the market. The 80-acre Prudhommes Landing site in Vineland, said to be the largest developable plot of waterfront land between Niagara and Kingston, is back on the market. HomeLife Power Realty Inc. has listed the site, which has a town and Region approved secondary plan for mixed use, for an undisclosed price. [...]

MORNING REPORT(7am AEST) US retail sales rose by a larger than expected 0.8pct in March after rising by 1.0pct in February. Forecasts centred on 0.3pct growth. Excluding autos and gasoline sales rose by 0.7pct. US business inventories rose by 0.6pct to a record $1.58 trillion as auto dealers restocked to meet increased demand for motor [...]

Earnings reports will serve as the key backdrop for market action this week, though market participants will also be keeping a close watch on the economy to look for signs that the first quarter’s growth momentum is losing steam. The March jobs miss has the market wary of a slowdown along the lines of what [...]

Monday was a mixed day for U.S. equities as Apple dragged down the Nasdaq while the Dow managed to finish up by 0.6% on the day. Meanwhile, the broad S&P 500 finished the session down by a point as tech weakness was balanced out by strength in integrated oil, health care, and banking. Currency trading [...]

We have some earnings out this morning before the bell which should help give the markets some direction. At this point however, US futures are all higher and point to a strong opening. Economic news due out today includes Retail Sales (Consensus 0.3%), Retail Sales Ex-Auto (Consensus 0.6%), Empire Manufacturing (Consensus 17.5), Net Long-Term TIC [...]

Britain’s housing market is failing to meet the needs of older people – despite a rapidly ageing population and a growing demand for retirement housing, Shelter’s new report reveals. ‘A better fit’ explores the housing options available to over 55s, a group which will make up one in three people in England by 2030. A [...]