Don’t forget to check on your free credit reports to start the year. Here is some good guideline on whether one should sign up for the credit monitoring service. Do you need it? Probably not The high cost is the main reason most people should pass on credit monitoring. The reality is that you probably [...]

Dec 20 Building Permits Dec 20 Core PPI Nov Dec 20 Housing Starts Nov Dec 20 PPI Nov Dec 21 Chain Deflator Dec 21 GDP-Final Q3 Dec 21 Crude Inventories Dec 22 Initial Claims Dec 22 Personal Income Dec 22 Personal Spending Dec 22 Leading Indicators Dec 23 Durable Orders Nov Dec 23 Mich Sentiment-Rev. [...]

Best Buy will report third-quarter earnings on Tuesday morning. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call expect the electronics retailer to post earnings of 30 cents per share on sales of $7.34 billion. In the year-ago period, Best Buy reported earnings of 30 cents per share on sales of $6.65 billion. [Forbes] Retails will definitely affect [...]

All major indexes; Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq are all in consolidation and poise to go higher by year end. Nasdaq and S&P already at 4 year high and Dow’s 11,000 barrier looks like should be broken soon as we have arrived at this level four times in three years. This week’s Fed, retail, and CPI [...]

Dec 12 Treasury Budget Nov Dec 13 Retail Sales Nov Dec 13 Retail Sales ex-auto Nov Dec 13 Business Inventories Oct Dec 13 FOMC policy announcement Dec 14 Export Prices ex-ag. Nov Dec 14 Import Prices ex-oil Nov Dec 14 Trade Balance Oct Dec 14 Crude Inventories 12/9 Dec 15 Core CPI Nov Dec 15 [...]

The seat owners of the New York Stock Exchange voted yesterday to buy Archipelago Holdings Inc. With this deal, it will turn the Big Board into a for-profit company. The estimated $9 billion deal was approve by a staggering 95% of the members. This deal will form a publicly traded corporation call NYSE Group Inc., [...]

ICANN, the internet’s governing agency, may release the remaining single letter domain names this week during the conference. These names are expected to fetch millions of dollars. [Forbes]