Markets
John Chambers Delivers, Big Investors Now Chasing
The action in the stock market continues to amaze. When stocks go up on bad news (like last week’s higher initial claims for jobless benefits and lower-than-expected ……Read More
Business
Markets
Japan Not Home-Free Despite Strong GDP
In these pages, I recently discussed the amazing returns in the benchmark Nikkei 225 index in Japan and how the country is following America’s example, ……Read More
Markets
First-Quarter Demand for Gold Jumps 19% in China, 27% in India
This doesn’t make it easy to understand for investors who bought gold stocks and have now seen them go down in price… But while the ……Read More
Economy
The Bakken and its Impact on the Local Economy
Over the past twelve to eighteen months, we've seen increasing resistance by various groups throughout the United States and Canada to hydraulic fracturing. One of ……Read More
Economy
Changing Homeownership Rates in America
The latest housing data release from the U.S. Census Bureau contains some interesting data on the housing and residential rental market in the United States. ……Read More
Economy
Where Canadian Tax Dollars Are Spent – Public Opinion Research
I have noticed that when politicians are confronted with bad polling numbers that they always use the "I don't believe in polls" or "We don't ……Read More