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European stress tests not so important

European stress tests not so important

On Friday, the EU released the results of the European bank stress test. This stress test has been in the news for a little while now as experts and investors were waiting what the outcome would be. You may remember the term ’stress test’ being used a lot a little over a year ago because that’s [...]

2010 gets early start to recovery

A day before the first day of 2010 some good news came out of a weekly jobless claims report in the US. It shows that American workers applied for jobless benefits in continuously smaller numbers than the previous week. This is the 17th consecutive week with the same trend. This means that since the trend began, the economy has been [...]

Recession brings opportunities for those with money

This recession that we are slowly starting to come out of gave those who have money to invest some incredible business opportunities that would be hard to come by any other time. The root cause of the recession began when people started to fail in making mortgage payments on homes they purchased. Normally, there is [...]