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MIDDAY UPDATE: Goldman Sachs and Facebook
Jan 3, 2011
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has "friended" Facebook. The mega-bank is pouring half-a-billion dollars into Facebook, boosting the social network's...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Groupon, unemployment, college admissions
Dec 29, 2010
Venture capital Groupon may raise $950 million from private investors to fuel its growth. This comes after recently turning down a $6 billion...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Looking ahead to 2011
Dec 24, 2010
Today we spoke to Jill Schlesinger, as we look forward to 2011. Stock prices are ending the year at their highest level since the collapse of...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Weekly jobless numbers down 17,000
Dec 9, 2010
Today's weekly unemployment numbers were down 17,000 from last week. These numbers are the second lowest of the year. Of course these numbers still...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Unemployment hits 9.8 percent; Congress turns down the volume on TV commercials
Dec 3, 2010
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 9.8 percent in November from 9.6 percent, marking the highest jobless rate since April. The Labor Department...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Unemployment
Dec 2, 2010
The monthly unemployment report from the Labor department could indicate that 9.5 Americans are unemployed. That's about 26.4 million Americans are...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Wells Fargo re-files, Nissan recalls and high speed rails
Oct 28, 2010
Wells Fargo will re-file 55,000 problematic foreclosure documents, but will not issue a blanket moratorium. Today, we learned that the number of...
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MID-DAY UPDATE: More job losses in September...
by
Bill Radke
Oct 8, 2010
This morning, the Labor Department said federal, state and local governments cut more jobs than the private sector created. Non-farm employment...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Corporations have money. Why aren't they hiring?
by
Bill Radke
Oct 7, 2010
U.S. companies have more cash on hand than they have in a while. They're using it for buying each other, buying their own stock... everything, it...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Obama to name Elizabeth Warren as consumer watchdog ...
by
Bill Radke
Sep 16, 2010
... despite the controversy surrounding her...