Stock News After some glorious years in the 70s, 80s and 90s, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) virtually went to sleep in the first decade of the 21st century, bogged down by the dot-com bubble, antitrust lawsuits, disputes on patents, as well as a loss of market share ...

Stock News Of all the US banks that have been negatively affected by the economic crisis, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) arguably dealt with this better and more effectively than any other within the industry. The banking industry was the major victim of the 2008 global ...

Stock News Following a difficult year in the stock market, investors are hoping for a little holiday cheer this year in the form of a December rally.  Market timers like to refer to this late season upside trend as the Santa Rally, and this year, investors are ...

Stock News Professional investors love to watch see where the whales are investing, and on Monday they got a glimpse of where the billionaires are putting their money with the release of the 13F filings.  Among the most noteworthy was the announcement that super-investor ...

Stock Picks It has been a difficult time to be a global bank investor, to say the least, as the crisis in Europe continues on and the US economy remains painfully sluggish.  As the news of Italy’s troubles spread, new concerns arose of the health of the Euro ...

Stock News Friday morning saw US markets continuing their move upward as investors remain hopeful that the long standing European debt issues are at last being addressed, and on a better than anticipated US consumer sentiment report.  The trend continued into mid-day ...

Forex Charts Even after today’s announcement of Silvio Berlusconi’s resignation, Euro markets moved considerable lower. This indicates that the market is still highly cautious of Europe’s precarious position and risk aversion still exists on a large scale. ...

Europe Investors watching the US Labor Department non-farm payroll report had reason to be optimistic, as the dip below 400,000 in unemployment claims seems to indicate a light at the end of the tunnel for the country’s ailing labor market. The US labor ...

Forex News The last minute deal in the Euro zone to contain the debt crisis led to a trouncing of the US dollar, and may have sealed the fate of the greenback.  The agreement made in Europe on Thursday involves a 50% write-down of  Greek debt and will boost the ...

Europe Risk appetite returned to the markets today as investors felt a breeze of confidence from the EU crisis summit . The calming words from Mr. Barroso were the catalyst for a return to riskier assets for traders who had resigned themselves to a winter of ...