Investment

Budget Battles

  • What a Discount Retailer Could Teach Apple

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    The books are now closed on the first quarter, but it will be a few weeks more before we start to see whether it was as good a period for corporate profits as it was for investors, who were able to...

  • What You Never Knew About Today’s Subprime Auto Loans

    By Carrick Mollenkamp, Reuters

    At car dealers across the United States, loans to subprime borrowers are surging, up 18 percent in 2012 from a year earlier, to 6.6 million borrowers, according to credit-reporting agency Equifax Inc...

  • Can Netflix Finally Get Some Respect?

    By Jon Friedman, The Fiscal Times

    The best-performing stock among the S&P 500 so far this year, hands down, has been Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) – yes, Netflix, which not so long ago was the Company America Loved to Hate. The stock...

  • The Secret Player Who Could End ‘Too Big To Fail’

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The debate is raging on Capitol Hill over whether the era of “Too Big To Fail” banks has truly ended, but the one player designed to tackle that question has stayed relatively quiet. Few Americans...

  • Hidden Cards Can Change the Fate of the Markets

    By Ryan Vlastelica, Reuters

    After flirting with an all-time high for three weeks, the S&P 500 posted its best closing level in history. But some strategists say Thursday's record could be a harbinger that the stock market...