Posted by Molly Newton Featured, Shopping Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
November 15th has arrived and the verdict is in for the ultimate question of, “Is Amazon’s Kindle Fire as good as Apple’s IPad?” The answer for some seems to be in the negative, although they’ll concede that the Kindle Fire is a nice, functioning tablet. What are Amazon Kindle Fire customers’ biggest complaints? The Kindle [...]
Posted by Molly Newton Business, Featured Monday, October 24th, 2011
Texas Prisons have been under public scrutiny after announcing their cut in weekend lunches. This means prisoners, who are supposed to originally be fed 3 times in the span of 24 hours, will likely only be served a brunch at 6am and dinner around 5pm. The families of said prisoners are in an outrage; some [...]
Posted by Molly Newton Featured, Finance Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Positive suppositions of China’s economic growth sparked a rise in many of the Asian stocks, and consequently boosted corporate revenues despite the need for capital compensation in many of Japan’s banks. There was marked improvement in stocks, following positive remarks by the Chinese premier indicating that the Chinese economy would even out by increasing [...]
Posted by Molly Newton Featured, Finance Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Following industrial reports that indicated a drop in US crude oil inventories, traders saw a further increase in crude oil for the 2nd day. Furthermore, the US dollar subsided against the Euro, making commodities more attractive as a substitute option for investors. Trading also saw the Futures increase with a rise in stocks following [...]
Posted by Molly Newton Featured, Finance Monday, September 6th, 2010
Legislators in the US are bracing themselves to come to terms with challenges of tax reductions which are due for expiration by the end of 2010 as they come back from their summer breaks. This comes at a time when the congress elections are just around the corner amidst slowing economic times. President Obama’s [...]
Posted by Molly Newton Featured, Finance Sunday, August 29th, 2010
The losses made in the stocks market during the week were regained on Friday when a marked improvement was seen in the US stocks. This came following better than anticipated reports on economic growth, as well as encouragement and pledge renewals from the National Reserve to intercede in the event that the economy tumbled. [...]