Quantcast
Channel: Business Insider
Browsing all 141119 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

LIVE: Draghi Destroys Dreams Of More ECB Action In Near Future

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi is speaking from Barcelona right now following the bank's latest monetary policy decision. The ECB decided to hold rates steady at 1.00 percent for the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Same-Store Sales Are Missing Expectations Across The Board (COST, FRED, GPS,...

The nation's largest retailers are reporting same-store results this morning, and broadly they've missed expectations.  Although most retailers said comparable-store sales increased, with Macy's,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (JPM, BP)

Good morning. Here's what you need to know. Markets in Asia sold-off in overnight trading, with Japan's Nikkei off 1.0 percent. Shares in Europe followed suit and U.S. futures point to a sharply lower...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Berlusconi Said WHAT?!

Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is writing some funny things on his Facebook page today. Arguing that the eurozone crisis has become a "recessive spiral," he calls on Germany to get on board with...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

PRESENTING: Twitter's Official Prediction For Today's Jobs Report

The official wisdom-of-crowds Twitter prediction for today's non-farm payrolls report is 112K. This was based on 80 Twitter guesses using the hashtag #NFPGuesses. Meanwhile.... Wall Street sell-side...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

JOBS REPORT DISASTER: JUST 69K NEW JOBS CREATED, UNEMPLOYMENT RISES, DOW...

UPDATE: The number is out.... It's bad. There were just 69K net new jobs created in May. That's well below the Wall Street consensus of 150K. Unemployment ticks up to 8.2%. It was 8.1% last month. The...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

EARLY RESULTS: Ireland Approves EU Fiscal Compact In Crucial Referendum

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's voters have decided to ratify the European Union's deficit-fighting treaty with "yes" votes reaching nearly 60 percent, according to election officials citing early unofficial...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Personal Income Growth Slows And Misses Expectations, Up 0.2% (Exp. +0.3%)

Personal incomes in the U.S. slowed from a month earlier, increasing 0.2 percent, or $31.7 billion, in April, new data out of the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows. Click here for updates > In...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

MARKETS TANK AFTER HUGE MISS ON NFP

A huge miss on today's nonfarm payrolls data is killing markets right now. Dow futures are off 202 points. S&P futures are off 27 points, down over 2  percent. Europe is diving too, with the DAX...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Turns Out The London Whale Was Taking Risks Bigger Than The Entire Investment...

The JPMorgan credit trader at center of the multi-billion dollar trading loss, Bruno Michel Iksil (aka the "London Whale"), would take huge risks himself that were sometimes bigger than the entire...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

1.46!

After that ugly jobs report, the US 10-year rate just fell to 1.46%!! Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

CRUDE OIL COLLAPSES: Now Down To $82

Pre-market crude oil futures plunged nearly 4 percent Friday on this morning's catastrophic nonfarm payrolls figure. July Brent contracts were down -3.81 percent to $98, while WTI declined as much as...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

EURO FALLS BELOW $1.23

The euro just fell below $1.23, after a dismal jobs report. That demolishes another huge benchmark for the currency, which just earlier this week was trading above $1.26. Take a look at the EUR/USD...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Dismal Jobs Numbers Are Already Causing Obama's Numbers On Intrade To Fall

On Intrade's market, shares of Obama's re-election are already down 2.7 percent for the day, and getting worse. We'll keep updating you if it plunges. Please follow Politics on Twitter and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

U.S. PMI HITS 54, SLOWEST GROWTH IN THREE MONTHS

UPDATE: U.S. manufacturing grew at its slowest rate in three months, new data out of Markit Economics shows. Click here for updates > The key U.S. PMI reading registered at 54.0, slightly above a...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

And The Yen Goes Berzerk!

Check out USD vs. JPY going totally bezerk after that jobs number. from FinViz: Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

GERMANY IS IMPLODING—Now Down 3.9%

The German DAX tanked after that dreadful U.S. nonfarm payrolls number. It's now off 3.9 percent. In recent weeks, Germany has been able to fight off the steepest of losses despite a massive rout in...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shareholders Demand Nomura Install Japanese-Style Toilets To Increase The...

This is serious. Nomura's 6-K form has been filed and shareholders are demanding that the Japanese bank install Japanese-style toilets in order to increase the stock price.   From the 6-K:  Proposal...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What Wall Street Analysts Are Buzzing About This Morning (GOOG, POT, HPQ, S)

Good morning. Here's your daily roundup of equity research from the Street. Bank of America: Google (GOOG): Analyst Justin Post is excited by Google's transition of Google Product Search to a paid, ad...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

LIVE: THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD REVEAL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE...

We are in the middle of the busiest 48 hours in the history of economics.  And ahead of tomorrow's big US employment situation report, we're getting tons of leading economic data from all over the...

View Article
Browsing all 141119 articles
Browse latest View live