LOS ANGELES – Hollywood‘s actors union voted to authorize a strike if contract talks break down, turning up the heat on major film and television studios already grappling with a monthlong work stoppage by writers. After voting closed on Monday, SAG-AFTRA ...
WASHINGTON – Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the tech company illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent, the FTC said on Monday. The company had been charged with violating the ...
In this week’s edition of The DecisionPoint Trading Room, Carl opens the trading room with a discussion of Target (TGT) and Anheuser-Busch (BUD) technicals and compares them to their industry groups. Shareholders can’t be pleased. After an overview of the ...
Trend-momentum strategies that trade stock-based ETFs should require two conditions before considering a position. First, broad market conditions should be bullish. This means being long stocks in bull markets and out of stocks in bear markets. Second, the trend for ...
Apple, Nvidia, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tesla have now been penned as the “Magnificent 7.” Only around 25% of the S&P 500 stocks have outperformed the benchmark, while these stocks continue to show massive leadership. The Nasdaq is up ...
Friedrich Hayek’s essay “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” published in 1945 in the prestigious American Economic Review, is often hailed as an important contribution to economics. Rightly so, because it provides important “meat” to the price theory “skeleton.” However, ...
The Durham report reminds us it is well past time for a more realistic assessment of the FBI for what it is: a costly, unnecessary, unconstitutional, and incompetent agency. Original Article: “End the FBI” ...
Volume 1, Number 4 (1977) New York’s current financial woes have a precedent, and perhaps a solution, in the pages of the distant past. Well back in its history, in the late 1830s, New York State was spending and lending ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 339,000 jobs in May, well above forecasts. The unemployment rate rose slightly from 3.4 percent to 3.7 percent (month over ...
A startling statistic recently surfaced from the Office for National Statistics – despite 77% of unemployed autistic people being eager to work, only 29% are currently employed. Hopefully, this figure will improve following the Government’s recently launched Buckland review, an ...