Earlier we highlighted JPMorgan’s outlook for the odds of falling off the “fiscal cliff” when tax breaks expire on January 1, 2013. JPMorgan’s chief U.S. equity strategist, Tom Lee, sees a 15 percent chance that we go...

DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for their roles in a billion-dollar banking fraud scandal that forced bank executives out of their jobs and tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...

The Fed has some tools left in its arsenal. Some of them are extremely unlikely, but considering them is especially interesting. BofA Merrill Lynch analyst Shyams Rajan recently wrote a report on all of the Fed’s remaining...

Last year it was the debt ceiling negotiations. This year its the fiscal cliff, political pressure on the Federal Reserve, and the complete inability of Congress to pass anything resembling a jobs bill.  Partisan gridlock is the...

Note from dshort: At the request of Suzanne Reid-Skidmore of MacKay Group Wealth Management in Toronto, I’ve refreshed this snapshot of our totally bad bear quartet. This update is current through the market close today, July 9th....

NaturalNews Some people might say that the greatest threat to human health is fear, an inability to forgive and a lack of love in our heart. In addition, many health experts simply warn us about the dangers...

In interviews with the Wall Street Journal, four former teammates of Lance Armstrong have supported the US Anti-Doping Agency’s allegations against one of the team’s former doctors, Garcia del Moral. The doctor himself denied the charges. The...

While organizations such as IFPI have somewhat of a global plan for dealing with online piracy, in recent times it’s become evident that their member companies will pursue local strategies taking both the law – and what...