29 December, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on LGBT equality: Let’s finish what Tim Cook started
LGBT equality: Let’s finish what Tim Cook started
2014 was a huge year for the LGBT community after Apple CEO Tim Cook came out. But you might be surprised by the discrimination that still lingers.
29 December, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on 25 Years After The "Top" In Japan, Have We Learned Anything?
25 Years After The "Top" In Japan, Have We Learned Anything?
The Japanese stock market reached its all-time-high on December 29th 1998, and as The Wall Street Journal reports, analysts were still looking forward to another strong year for shares in 1990, despite some signs of danger. Reading through the headline on that day suggests, 25 years later, investors and talking-heads have learned absolutely nothing…
29 December, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Stocks Narrowly Mixed, But Volume Rises
Stocks Narrowly Mixed, But Volume Rises
Stocks finished narrowly mixed Monday in what is traditionally the start of the year’s dullest trading week. Volume rose from Friday’s pace. The Nasdaq rose a fraction; the S&P 500 rose 0.1%; the Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.1%. In the stock market today among IBD 50 stocks, 27 were higher and 23 were lower. The best performer was Avis Budget Group (CAR), up nearly 3%.
29 December, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Market Extra: Carl Icahn’s biggest hits and misses of 2014
Market Extra: Carl Icahn’s biggest hits and misses of 2014
Carl Icahn’s newly reported stake in Manitowoc is roiling markets Monday.
29 December, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Mark Hulbert: 3 reasons to give up your search for stock market predictors
Mark Hulbert: 3 reasons to give up your search for stock market predictors
Returns in one year have nothing to do with those of other years, writes Mark Hulbert.
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29 December, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Capitol Report: The U.S. gains one person every 16 seconds
Capitol Report: The U.S. gains one person every 16 seconds
By the time you finish reading this article, the U.S.
29 December, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on US Military Stockpiling "Massive Amounts" Of Gear Near Iraq
US Military Stockpiling "Massive Amounts" Of Gear Near Iraq
Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an allied offensive against the Islamic State group, US News reports. Air Force Maj. Gen. Rowayne “Wayne” Schatz admitted, “from June to December, we’ve worked a lot on moving items into Kuwait,” including 3,100 vehicles, most of them MRAPs.