Stock Market Today

In this 10th Episode of the Tradex Foods – 3 Minute Market Insight for Seafood Purchasers – President & CEO Robert Reierson talks about Cod, Haddock and the future for the Pangasius Fish Market which rest largely in the hands of the US Government.

One of the hardest things for most people to decide when they first begin buying stocks is what their minimum investment should be. Uncertainty and lack of knowledge leads many to believe that their investment activity should begin with the purchase of a few dozen shares of a very cheap stock. The truth of the [...]

Jonathan Golub, chief US market strategist at UBS Securities LLC, talks about his view on technology, financial and industrial stocks. Golub, speaking with Betty Liu, Sheila Dharmarajan and Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop,” also discusses the impact of the unrest in the Middle East and the crisis in Japan on market volatility. [...]

When we write for college courses, we write for an audience other than ourselves. And it’s an audience of more than one–the professor who assigned the piece. A good way to think of (and never forget) audience is to imagine we are writing the assignment for a popular magazine that sits in multiple copies on [...]

American food policy has resulted in increasing rates of obesity, particularly among lower-class and minority populations. “My father swears by this, he said back in the day, poor people were skinny, now poor people are obese,” said Dr. Rani Whitfield of Family Practice and Sports Medicine. In of one of the very few black neighborhoods [...]

Consider this a wake-up call if you assume the best mutual funds for 2011 and years to come will again be bond funds vs. stock funds. Millions of people own these funds and many are wondering which are the best funds to own in these times of high uncertainty. Here we make comparisons and discuss [...]

A major news event will soon occur – a resolution (or not) of the US Debt Ceiling talks. It looks like a BS solution will be “sold” to the marketplace within the next 1-3 days. If not, the EUR/USD looks like disaster if this does not occur. Three days max & we will know!

There is a common misconception that the Forex market is open 24 hours a day seven days a week. Theoretically the global Forex market is open 24 hours seven days a week but an individual is still limited to the hours he can trade. Opposed to other regulated markets such as that of the stock [...]

“Ford (NYSE:F) reported Q3 EPS of $0.48, topping consensus estimates of $0.38. Ford’s third quarter revenue was $29 billion, a decline of $1.3 billion from the same period a year ago. Excluding Volvo revenue from 2009, Ford’s revenue in the third quarter was up $1.7 billion compared with the same period a year ago. However, [...]

During the Great Depression, women made up 25% of the work force, but their jobs were more unstable, temporary or seasonal then men, and the unemployment rate was much greater. There was also a decided bias and cultural view that “women didn’t work” and in fact many who were employed full time often called themselves [...]