With consumer sentiment still weak, and concerns over the global economy weighing on everyone's mind, a lot of people have been worried that retailers are going to report weak sales numbers this holiday season. We will not know for sure just willing people have been to spend this holiday season, but the fact that FedEx (FDX) recently saw its busiest shipping day ever is a positive sign. The company reported that ...

The market is poised for another positive day as investors react to revised GDP numbers which show that the economy grew faster than previously thought at the end of last year. According to the Commerce Department, the economy grew at 3.1% during the fourth quarter, which is higher than analysts had been expecting to see. Going into today's report analysts had been expecting to see revised GDP output of 3.0%. Last month ...

We have been hearing a lot of rumors that the recession is finally over, and we get another hint at this today with a new report that the majority of economists believe that the recession has ended but econonic recovery is going to be slow. According to a poll by National Association for Business Economics, 80% of economists that it polled stated that they believe the recession has ended and the ...