Investment

Budget Battles

  • Panic Selling! Why Gold Is Sinking Like a Rock

    By VERONICA BROWN and BARANI KRISHNAN, Reuters

    Gold headed for its biggest two-day drop in 30 years on Monday as funds accelerated their exits from the market, and investors also cut exposure to oil, copper and grain after underwhelming Chinese...

  • Techs, Banks and More: 9 Earnings Reports to Watch

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    It’s earnings season – yes, it’s already that time again – and investors will be eyeing this week’s reports for insight into two of the most uncertain and important sectors: technology and banks. As...

  • Another Loss for Unions: Outrageous CEO Pay

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The AFL-CIO released Monday its 2012 “Paywatch” survey of the compensation of 350 CEOs with companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. Their compensation averaged $12.3 million last year, 354...

  • Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo, a Surprise Wall Street Darling

    By Jon Friedman, The Fiscal Times

    For all the uproar about Marissa Mayer’s decisions as CEO of Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), she must be doing something right, at least in the eyes of Wall Street. Since Mayer took over the company, Yahoo has...

  • The 3-Speed Global Economy Puts US in 2nd Gear

    By Patrick Smith

    When the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank gather for their spring meetings in Washington this week, there will be no pressing euro crisis to address, and that is more than one could say...