Everyone has heard about the Amazon (AMZN) warehouse scandals and Nike’s (NKE) sweatshops, but they’re the ones that got caught. But it’s not just the well-publicized
Exuberance – rational or not – spread to China stocks Wednesday from Wall Street after the Dow’s record-high close. But the next few months might not be so happy for the Hong Kong and China
Housing Starts rose a less than expected 2.3% to 750,000 units annualized in August. Building Permits fell by 1.0%. Existing Home Sales rose 7.8% in August to an annual rate of 4.82 million, the
Construction Spending in March was weaker than expected with a rise of just 0.1%. The ISM manufacturing index was stronger than expected in April at 54.8. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded
Durable Goods Orders dropped 4% last month, the biggest decline since January 2009. Economists were expecting a drop of just 1%. Excluding Transportations orders were down 3.2% instead of the
