Obama: US combat mission in Iraq to end ‘as promised’
London Guardian | Barack Obama said the US strategy in Iraq will shift “from a military effort led by our troops to a civilian effort led by our diplomats”...
More disappointing news
Just a quick note on a couple of new data releases today. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index aims to summarize in a single number 85 separate measures of real...
McDonald’s Q2 Profit Jumps 13% on Higher Revenue; Same-Store Sales Fall Short (MCD)
Fast food giant McDonald’s Corporation ( MCD ) on Friday said its second quarter profit rose 13% from last year, beating expectations, but its same-store...
NextEra Energy (NEE): A ‘Bargain’ in Utilities
Filed under: Newsletters , Stocks to Buy , Green Stocks “Our latest “Bargain Stock of the Month” feature is NextEra Energy ( NEE ), which changed...
Carlos Slim Increasing Gold Production at Grupo Frisco
Carlos Slim, who has been named the richest man in the world, and is among the top five every year since he broke into the upper group of billionaires, is increasing...
China International Trade Review – July 2010
China released its monthly trade figures for the month of June; reporting a trade surplus of $20.2 billion (vs consensus estimates of $15.6 billion), much improved...
Investorideas.com – Kitcommentary from Kitco Metals Inc. – "Bombay …
(Investorideas.com Mining stocks newswire) Quarterly performance tallies started to trickle in as the last trading day of the month got underway this morning. Commodities...
Markets Down On Week Ahead Of G20 Summit – Sunday, June 27, 2010 …
Among Canadian stocks we watched this month, the unquestioned champion was Gold Bullion Development Corp. (TSX-Venture:GBB), which, since first monitored on June...
Electric Cars and the Fixed Cost Conundrum
John Petersen Later this month, Tesla Motors plans to launch its initial public offering and sell about 12% of the company for $200 million. If the IPO is successful,...
Bloomberg: US Debt to Overtake GDP in 2012
US debt continues surging higher and the chart below shows a likely outcome: debt will exceed GDP in as early as 2012. Yep, that’s fewer than two years from...
Whole Foods (WFMI): Quality Formula for Success
Filed under: Newsletters , Whole Foods Market (WFMI) , Stocks to Buy “One of ace investor Peter Lynch’s favorite business models is the “cookie-cutter,”...
American Eagle Gold Coin Sales At 11-year High
With faith in paper currencies plummeting around the world, gold in a number of forms is being acquired by investors, and for phyiscal gold, the one-ounce American...

