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The U.S. Census Bureau estimated retail and food services sales for May at $387.1 billion today, down 0.2% from April, but up 7.7% from May of 2010. Economists had expected a drop of 0.7% for May. The increase from March 2011 to A

This is what's in the news for Wednesday, April 27th, 2011. The Wall Street Journal reports that NYSE Euronext (NYX) CEO Duncan Niederauer says his company and merger partner Deutsche Börse have many options to improve th

This is what's in the news for Thursday, March 31st. the Wall Street Journal reports that Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) David Sokol has resigned over his personal stock trading...

Credit Suisse has revised down its U.S. GDP forecasts for the first half of 2011. The firm now expects 2.5% real GDP growth in Q1, down from its previous forecast of 3.5%. Its Q2 forecast was also revised down to 3.3% from 3.7%. H

The price of oil is trading up over $106 in Asian markets today, after closing at $104.42 per barrel on Friday. Oil is up 26% since February 15th.

Fighting in Libya between pro-Gaddafi and anti-Gaddafi rebels escalated over the weekend.

U.S. gasoline prices are up nearly 33 cents over the last two weeks, according to the latest Lundberg survey. That is the second biggest price jump in the history of the gasoline market, with the biggest occurring between August a

Toyota's new AA- rating is still higher than its auto industry peers.

The Japanese car-maker is trading down 1.4% at $90.92 per share.

Standard & Poor's cut its rating of Toyota Motor Corp (NYSE:TM) from AA to AA- Friday, "Because the company's profitability is still weak, its pace of recovery is slower than those of Japanese peers, and its profitability migh