Some Of The World's Brightest Minds Are Meeting This Week To Solve A Huge...
All eyes will be on Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where The Kansas City Federal Reserve will host its annual economic policy symposium. The event kicks off on Thursday, August 21.The topic of this year's...
View ArticleLyft's COO Has Left The Company
Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden is out at the company, according to Re/code's Kara Swisher, who cites sources familiar with the company. VanderZanden came to Lyft last March after it bought his company,...
View ArticleCHENEY: Obama Would 'Rather Be On The Golf Course' Than The Situation Room
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney strongly criticized President Barack Obama on Wednesday night for going golfing immediately after delivering a statement on the beheading of American journalist...
View ArticleShares Of A Biotech Company That DIDN'T Make The Drug That Saved The...
Dr. Kent Brantly, who had contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia, was released from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital after being treated with experimental drug ZMapp.ZMapp was developed by Mapp...
View ArticleCITI: There's A Huge Split Coming To The World's Major Central Banks
Here's a very important and interesting forecast from Citi's top economist, Willem Buiter. He expects both the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank to engage in "major" quantitative easing...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's Tech Elite Are Spending Millions To Live Like Kings At...
Burning Man is a 50,000-person event in the middle of the desert filled with music, strange outfits, and drugs.It is also a favorite event for many important people in Silicon Valley: CEOs Elon Musk,...
View ArticleJobless Claims Fall More Than Expected (DIA, SPX, SPY, QQQ)
Jobless claims fell to 298,000 for the week ended August 16.Expectations were for claims to fall to 303,000 from last week's 311,000.Last week's claims number was also revised up to 312,000, according...
View ArticleSocial Media Engagement: The Surprising Facts About How Much Time People...
We tend to talk about social networks in terms of size, because audience reach is one of social media’s biggest advantages. That’s why Facebook gets so much attention. With 1.2 billion monthly active...
View ArticleYou Can Now Get A Dirt Cheap iPhone 5s And A Nearly Free iPhone 5c At Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is practically giving away iPhones.As part of a new sale, the retail giant is now selling the iPhone 5c on a two-year contract for just $0.97. The iPhone 5s is also getting a significant price...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know In Advertising Today
1. Snapchat will incorporate advertising and videos into its current platform by November. Snapchat Discovery will let brands publish ads and short videos. 2. Rocket Fuel released a study Wednesday...
View ArticleYou Can Now Play The Official Flappy Birds Sequel 'Swing Copters'
"Flappy Bird" may not be returning to your phone anytime soon, but its sequel, called "Swing Copters," is now here to fill the void.Swing Copters promises to be just as hard (if not harder) than its...
View ArticleMario Balotelli, The Most Interesting Man In Soccer, Is Close To A Shock...
Liverpool is close to completing a transfer for AC Milan forward Mario Balotelli, according to widespread reports out of Italy and England.It a surprise. In early August, when Balotelli-to-Liverpool...
View ArticleHere Are The Odds On Who Will Win At Monday's Emmy Awards
The 66th annual Primetime Emmys are Monday, August 25.If you're filling out a ballot, or if you can't remember who's nominated in the big categories, here's a quick look at who's slated to take home...
View ArticleOil Prices Are Having A Brutal Summer
Oil is having a brutal summer despite unrest in some of the world's top oil-producing countries.Abundant supply and sluggish demand continue to weigh on prices.At $101.44, London-traded Brent crude is...
View ArticleBANK OF AMERICA AGREES TO PAY $16.65 BILLION SETTLEMENT
Bank of America has agreed to pay the U.S. government $16.65 billion to end a mortgage probe over mortgages sold before the financial crisis.This is a record penalty paid by a bank to the U.S....
View ArticleObama's Mission Against ISIS Just Fundamentally Changed
President Barack Obama surprised many observers Wednesday with his brevity and anger when he spoke about the brutal murder of American photojournalist James Foley at the hands of militants from the...
View ArticleWatch The American Music Industry Splinter Into Bits Over 30 Years In 30 Seconds
Digital Music News' Paul Resnikoff has put together a pie chart GIF showing 30 years of U.S. music industry change in 30 seconds. Not only is it unrecognizable from what it looked like in the '80s and...
View ArticleHow Putin's Media Czar May Have Funded Brad Pitt's New Movie
The family of former Kremlin media chief Mikhail Lesin is apparently living quite large in Los Angeles.Their lavish Hollywood lifestyle, which has provided an entré into the movie business and has...
View ArticleNobel Laureate: 'Historians Are Going To Tar And Feather Europe's Central...
Peter Diamond, an MIT professor who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2010, told The Telegraph that, "Historians are going to tar and feather Europe's central bankers."Diamond told The Telegraph's...
View ArticleHere Comes Philly Fed Manufacturing... (DIA, SPX, SPY, QQQ)
The latest manufacturing report fom the Philadelphia Federal Reserve is expected at the top of the hour. Expectations are for a reading of 19.7, lower than 23.9 reported last month. Last month's report...
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