By Jim Butler and Jim Abrams | JMBM's Global Hospitality Group®Hotel Lawyers | Authors of 3 November 2009Hotel Lawyer: The transient occupancy tax litigation by cities and local governments continues to mushroom. On November 3, Florida filed one of the

I am not going to break down the full unemployment data because like much of our government reporting it is "garbage in, garbage out" and "you can't handle the truth" mixed together. If you are newer to the website please

Investing in Dividend Stocks is a long-term strategy. Frequent buying and selling of dividend stocks can significantly increase your expenses and taxes, thus lowering your returns.

Business Week (via Briefing.com) reports McDonald's/MCD missed this year's robust stock market rally. While the is up S&P 15%, shares of the co are off 3%. But some savvy pros regard the lag as an opportunity."McDonald's is the only new

The status quo remains. This state of balance between the bullish and bearish scenarios remains with limited movement yesterday more reflective of the market collective indecision as it stands like a rabbit staring into headlights both in front of him

ForexRate Decisions coming from the ECB and UK were at the centre with investors focus on rhetoric as key rates were broadly expected to be left unchanged. Both central banks left their rates unchanged with the ECB key rate at

Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI) is scheduled to release third quarter earnings after the market close on Thursday, November 12, 2009. Analysts, on average, currently expect the company to report a loss of 11 cents a share on revenue of $1.01

Back in May I recommended that readers should buy shares in Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) on the grounds that the U.S. carmaker would gain market share from the bankrupt General Motors Corp. (OTC: MTLQQ) and Chrysler Group LLC. Ford's

How awful was today's non-farm payrolls report?Let's start with the bad news: Nonfarm payrolls for October fell 190,000, which is worse than the decline of 175,000 that had been widely forecast. Job losses for the previous month were upwardly revised

Nov 06 09 NFP just hit with 193K job losses, and a 10.3% Unemployment

Nov 05 09 The markets were advancing nicely at the start of trading. The Japanese Nikkei advanced 113 points after unemployment claims in the US came in better than expected. The Australian S&P/ASX was also advancing 63 points or a

Jack Adamo looks to Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ: NVTL) as a new buy recommendation. In his Insiders Plus newsletter, he assesses the firm's newest products and recent insider buying."Novatel provides wireless broadband access solutions for the mobile communications market worldwide.

Yow.The BLS employment report is out and it's not good.Here's the BLS' top-line graph set:

I wanted to update you on the continuing arc in gold from the prior post "Two Views of the Angles of Ascent in Gold" which was showing a steeply rising parabolic formation.Here is the current "pure price arc" in gold's

Today, traders should pay close attention to the release of the U.S. Non-Farm Employment Change report. This indicator always produces extreme market volatility in the major currency pairs. Traders may find good opportunities to enter the market following this vital

So, who did I recommend for the next meeting at the Treasury? (I think there will be one.)Economists View http://economistsview.typepad.com/Cafe Americain http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/Market-Ticker http://market-ticker.denninger.net/Econbrowser http://www.econbrowser.com/Greg Mankiw's Blog http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/Carpe Diem http://mjperry.blogspot.com/

Ford's 2,215 page 2007 master contract with the UAW 1941 UAW-Ford contract

Today, the government announced a surge in the national unemployment figure of 10.2% -- which seriously underestimates the 'effective unemployment' rate of those who have stopped looking for work or who are underemployed.

On Monday I asked if semiconductors were a bargain yet. I proposed that very soon they would be and then the sector would be a clear Buy.Quite frankly, the sector didn't quite fall as far as I thought it would

Sanford Bernstein is making a major call on Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) upgrading their rating to Outperform from Market Perform with a $160 target (prev. $125).