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Budget Battles

  • This Little Red Bowl Fetched Over $9 Million

    By Grace Li, Reuters

    A red bowl with a lotus pattern broke the world record for Chinese Kangxi ceramics on Monday, fetching over $9 million after a bidding war won by a Hong Kong ceramics dealer at the last day of spring...

  • The Fledgling Tech Biz That Has TV’s Titans Fighting Mad

    By Jon Friedman, The Fiscal Times

    What? You've never heard of Aereo, the year-old startup that could just become the Next New Thing in the media ecosystem? Media mogul Barry Diller wants to make sure that you will soon know about it...

  • How to Prepare for a Spring Swoon in Stocks

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    This week marks the official start of the first quarter earnings season, a six-week period during which publicly traded companies will try to impress investors with their ability to generate profits...

  • Will Earnings Keep the Rally Going?

    By Rodrigo Campos, Reuters

    The stock market's robust rally was slowing even before Friday's jobs report, but the red flag sent up by the weak payrolls data makes the path to more gains less secure. It means the bulls will have...

  • Internet GDP: The Metric that Gives More for Less

    By Kevin Maney, Techonomy

    A standard trope these days is that we in the middle class have been slogging through a couple of decades of woe. Wages are stagnant. Our standard of living isn’t improving. The grand forces of our...