The economy looked better in December but not better enough to make a strong argument for a continued improvement in 2012
It’s hard to find a really strong trend in today’s data on housing, durables, and jobs and I think that’s what worries the Federal Reserve. If the trend were stronger, economists could feel that 2012 was more likely to follow the lead of 2011. With these numbers, though, while the picture is positive, no one can be sure it won’t turn darker overnight.
Tablet wars will heat up in 2012–but the big battle will be Amazon vs. Google with Apple left counting its profits
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...The Fed says it will keep rates extraordinarily low until late 2014 (instead of mid 2013)
Today the Fed announced that it anticipated keeping rates at that exceptionally low level through at least late 2014. Previously the Fed had said “though mid-2013.” Recent data that showed a pickup in job growth had led Wall Street to worry that the Fed might reduce the period of exceptionally low rates in today’s statement.
And Apple is still a cheap stock
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DuPont announces unsurprising fourth quarter results and looks for growth to pick up in the second quarter of 20112
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Can Germany bribe—I mean—successfully negotiate with the International Monetary Fund to break the Greek debt stalemate? Negotiations remain bogged down on what interest rate the new bonds issued to replace existing Greek debt will carry.
Don’t fight the Fed (and the ECB, the Banco Central do Brasil, and the People’s Bank of China) is good advice most of the time–but here’s why it won’t work out so well in 2012
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Lots of market-moving data on tap in the United States this week culminating in Friday’s release of fourth quarter 2011 GDP growth
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