Many small and medium-sized enterprises have managed to expand their clientele, gain revenue and brand recognition by offering Groupon deals. Here is how a Groupon deal works, simple and easy. The goods/services offered through Groupon have to be discounted by at least 50 percent and up to 90 percent. The merchant, also, has to […]
(Reuters) - Wall Street is experiencing its best month since January and looks poised to extend the rally with a deluge of earnings next week, though significant gains may be harder to come by with major indexes at record highs. Eight Dow components and Apple (AAPL.O) are among the companies that will report in one of the busiest weeks of the earnings season. […]
Markets are generally a bit lower this morning. Thanks to big earnings whiffs from Microsoft and Google after the bell yesterday, the NASDAQ will likely get slapped around today. Meanwhile, Japan and China both had bad sessions. Japan lost about 1.5% in weird trading activity, which saw a sharp decline about an hour and a […]
A headline is crossing now that’s causing Honeywell shares to dive. “Honeywell transmitter likely cause of 787 fire, UK AAIB says,” reports Bloomberg. This relates to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fire at London’s Heathrow Airport last week. Here’s the intraday move via Yahoo Finance. Join the conversation about this story » Check out the original […]
A recent Google study revealed that a striking 25% of business executives have made a business purchase for more than $5,000 through a mobile device. On the same study 41% of business executives admit that they have conducted research through mobile for business purchased higher than $100,000. The aforementioned statistics are highlighting a predominant trend […]
After spiking to nearly $1,300 in the wake of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s prepared remarks, gold is now tumbling. Economists immediate reaction to the the remarks was that Bernanke’s message was dovish. Minutes ago, Bernanke gave his semiannual testimony to the House Financial Services Committee. The current gold sell-off started just before the Q&A began. […]
The May jobs report was just released at 8:30 AM ET, and the numbers came in better than expected. The change in nonfarm payrolls was 175,000, better than the 163,000 expected by market economists. The unemployment rate, on the other hand, edged up to 7.6%, versus expectations for an unchanged reading at 7.5%. Markets were […]