Fitch Ratings downgraded Spain and Italy

The major market indexes took the long route to end the day very close to where they started…( Read More )

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Unattainable Government Goals

01/27/12 Baltimore, Maryland – Yesterday, investors digested the big news from Wednesday…the Fed's announcement that it would continue handing out money , asking nothing in return, for the next three years. Stocks went down. … The Fed projected that unemployment would drop no lower than 8.2 percent this year, just slightly below the current rate of 8.5 percent, and no lower than 7.4 percent by the end of next year. By the end of … Right now, interest rate policy doesn't work .

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Reading Morocco: In Morocco Being Unemployed is a Full Time Job

But youth unemployment is also a crisis for every Arab government. … Jobs , Not A Revolution But don't compare that political movement with the aims of these jobless college grads, says Nasreen el Hannch. “Oh, it's not the same. We are totally different because we are just looking for jobs ,” … The government has already pledged to hire 20000 more workers, but there are many more protesters, and those left unemployed would have reason to keep up the pressure.

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Options players swarm CVX and HON post-earnings

Rounding out a week teeming with earnings releases, oil outfit Chevron Corporation (CVX – 104.65) and manufacturing issue Honeywell International Inc…( Read More )

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Spain unemployment hitting nearly 1 of 4 workers « New Hampshire …

MADRID (AP) — Spain's brutal unemployment rate soared to nearly 23 percent Friday and closed in on 50 percent for those under age 25, leaving more than 5 million people — or almost one out of every four — out of work as the … “A lot of these businesses with say three or four workers might hire another person, or they could go from six workers to eight, but they are waiting for the government to make its moves,” said Francesc Pujol, an economics professor at the …

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Use this spread strategy to capitalize on a stock’s move in either direction

Welcome back to SchaeffersResearch.com. In this installment of Inside Options, we’ll take a closer look at a simple spread strategy known as a long straddle…( Read More )

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Ryan Holmes: Turning Your Passion Into Your Position: Social …

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RVBD gets smacked with bearish brokerage notes post-earnings

Rounding out a week full of earnings announcements from the tech sector, Riverbed Technology, Inc…( Read More )

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Unemployment: The Bad Things That Can Happen When You Lose …

Lianne Valenti lost her job as manager for a company that makes portable power generators last July. Valenti, who is 46 and lives in Long Beach, Calif., started drawing unemployment benefits and looking for a new job.

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JBHT saw its fourth-quarter earnings jump 25%

With corporate earnings season already in high gear, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc…( Read More )

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