Another Unusual Risk

Another Unusual Risk Here’s another risk for companies to consider disclosing in their financial statements: ... of credit cards to the fiscally challenged, has included this risk factor in every quarterly and annual report since its 2005 annual report: “Negative publicity may impair acceptance of our products. Critics [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 02:28:00

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A Warning About “Imposter” Websites December 5, 2008

Posted by SBDC in Small Business General. trackback              Only one website is authorized to fill orders for the free annual credit report ... mandated free annual credit report program. In some cases, the “free” product comes with strings attached ... )A Chance for Free Credit MonitoringFinancial buddyAnnualCreditReport.com The Real Free Credit Rep [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 18:07:42

It's the Economy, Stupid

The Labor Department today reported that business productivity surged to a revised 4.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter of the year ... measure quality of output.)Higher productivity keeps inflation in check. When companies can produce ... of their lines of credit because the housing bubble has burst. The result? Employers can't sell [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 12:27:00

DrumBeat: November 17, 2008

EIA: OPEC 10 Month Oil Export Revenue +32% On Full-Year 2007 NEW YORK -(Dow Jones) ... on the world's annual oil production. While the IEA's report ... Outlook (WEO) 2008 report, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) conclusively recognized [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 13:33:17

The Economy & Bush

I’m sure someone will find 5 or 6 articles to prove this one wrong ... economies since 2000. The IMF reports that real U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average annual ... and I can point to many families of all stripes that can say the same thing. Chalk the credit to whomever [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 23:23:38

Thursday Is New Jobless Day

479K new lucky duckies! And we're shrinking. Gross domestic product contracted at a 0.3 percent annual pace, less than forecast, a Commerce Department report showed today in Washington ... spending boom ended last quarter as the credit crunch deepened. ... Consumer spending dropped [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 14:14:00

If Japan Bounces Back in the New Year, Investors Will, Too

Japan has been an infuriating country for U.S. investors for almost 20 years now, since its benchmark Nikkei 225 index hit its trading high of 38, ... . Story continues below… Sign up right now, and we’ll send you an important new report for free ... at an average annual rate of 2.0% from 1990 to 2007, outstripping the U.S. productivity growth rate [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 16:20:02

GDP report shows economy shrank in 3Q

[ The Commerce Department reported that the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, fell at an annual rate of 0 ... , disappointing analysts who had expected a small drop. On Wednesday [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 15:45:53

Bailouts and the Need for Speed

October 2, 2008 by Stephen Neitzke Millions of angry citizens shouted and screamed into Congressional staffer phones and emails ... OUTSTANDING, jumping up and down on a annual gross world product of a mere $65 TRILLION. (Both totals are as of the end of 2007, according to the current quarterly report of the BIS -- Bank [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 15:33:45

Caffeine Fix for Market Jitters

Seems like there’s no end to the indigestion-inducing economic news ... the Shiller index first started reporting. Then on the way into the kitchen I heard the Commerce department announce that the gross domestic product had dropped an annual 0.5%, as the household spending [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:31:17

DrumBeat: December 4, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: July 2008 – A Month To Remember Most students of the subject at first thought that world oil production was going to peak for geological reasons --- the inability to find and produce enough oil to keep our annual consumption ... Lynch & Co. said in a report today. U.S. fuel demand during the four weeks ended Nov. 28 was down [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 14:07:31

US Wind Power Growth to Slow in 2009, FPL Hints

It was just last week when I shared the great news of another record year for US wind power in 2008 ... on wind’s growth for 2009. In the company’s third quarter report, FPL announced a 25% cut in 2009 ... have been overheating these past few years on 27+% annual growth. With the current Production Tax Credit (PTC [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 16:40:22

Opening Comments January 15 2009

Prices of Treasury coupon securities maintain a robust tone as economic reports continue to manifest weakness and credit concerns are unabated ... American firm Morgan Stanley. Nissan will cut production of autos in February and March at an annual [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:30:55

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