Amazon (AMZN) Latest Report Earnings

July 26, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Stocks held in for many with the day, but sold off hardest inside the last hour and a half of trading. While there has become some weakness, traders are mostly acting as if a deal is surely an inevitability.

Following the close, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) became the following with the tech leaders to report earnings, and they did not disappoint. AMZN reported EPS of $0.41 vs $0.35 for each share and revenues of $9.91B vs. $9.37B approximated, along with the stock is surging increased right after hrs (at the moment about 6%). Even though the jobs picture stays bleak within the US, company earnings, specifically from top companies, keep on to impress.

Congress fail to break debt deadlock

July 25, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Lawmakers did not achieve a budget breakthrough on Sunday and instead labored on rival ideas in an impasse that heightened prospects for any catastrophic debt fault.

With time working out, Republican and Democratic lawmakers break up into opposite camps and held talks amid on their own. There were no indications of the deal rising to head off a default in nine days that could set off international financial calamity and downgrade America’s Triple-A credit rating.

Following weeks of rancorous talks, finger-pointing and political point-scoring, equally sides appeared even more apart than ever on a broad deficit reduction deal that would distinct the way in which for Congress to lift the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.

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Gang of Six Deficit Plan

July 20, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Six stalwart U.S. senators delivered yesterday the outlines of an intelligent and ambitious deficit- reduction proposal. It truly is, as President Barack Obama succinctly stated, “good news” — at a time when some is required.

The bipartisan “Gang of Six” plan requires the wise policy framework in the Bowles-Simpson fiscal-reform commission and turns it right into a workable bundle for that Senate to consider.

Even though the plan’s particulars will not be all apparent, the senators say it would decrease deficits by $500 billion instantly and by $3.7 trillion over ten years. It might overhaul entitlements, in part by switching into a so-called chained client price index to calculate benefits.

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