HERE COMES ISM MANUFACTURING...
Heads up! Minutes away from the release of ISM's June report on U.S. manufacturing, due out at 10 AM ET. Economists predict the headline index advanced to 50.5 in June from 49.5 in May, suggesting a...
View ArticleHere Comes US PMI...
Markit Economics will release US PMI data just before 9 am this morning. Consensus was for 52.3. Prior was 52.2. We've been following PMI data for the past 24 hours, and the story so far has been...
View ArticleGerman PMI Shrinks In June
Well, there's your one laggard. After PMI readings that beat expectations, and grew across Europe, German PMI actually shrank a bit in June. The manufacturing index fell from 49.4 to 48.6. From...
View ArticleItalian Manufacturing Shows Big Improvement — Production Increases For The...
More green shoots in Europe, where Italian PMI just jumped to 49.1. Production grew for the first time in 20 months. From Markit: Share Email More Share on Tumblr To embed this post, copy the code...
View ArticleSpanish PMI Rises To 50, As New Business Increases For The First Time Since...
More signs of a comeback along the European periphery. This time the improvement is in Spain, where the PMI index has risen from 48.1 to 50.0, which is a neutral reading (neither contraction nor...
View ArticleEurozone Unemployment: 12.1%
There are clear signs that the Euro economy is coming back from the brink. But the situation is dismal, and if there's not a decisive turnaround, then mass unemployment threatens to destroy the whole...
View ArticleBig Upturn In French PMI
So far, all of the big European PMI readings have been strong. France has jumped to 48.4 from 46.4 last month. From Markit Share Email More Share on Tumblr To embed this post, copy the code below and...
View ArticleFacebook Pays $20K Bounty To Researcher Who Found A Major Security Flaw In...
See Also Facebook has paid a $20,000 reward to a UK based security researcher for reporting a bug that hackers could've used to take over users' accounts. Last month, UK security researcher Jack...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Marched With 700 Facebook Employees In San Francisco's Gay...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with 700 of his colleagues, marched in San Francisco's gay pride parade yesterday. Here are some photos of the parade we found on Zuck's Facebook page. They were...
View ArticleIn The Best Moment Of NHL Draft, Devils Legend Martin Brodeur Announced The...
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View ArticleISM Report Contains Worst Employment Figure Since September 2009
Job seekers listen to a presentation at the Colorado Hospital Association health care career fair in Denver April 9, 2013. The latest ISM survey results on the health of the American manufacturing...
View ArticleAt Least 19 Injured As Supercar Crashes Into Crowd At A Polish Rally
At least 19 people were injured at a Polish car rally on Sunday after a luxury sports car lost control and crashed into a crowd of spectators. The Koenigsegg CCX was being driven on a straightaway at...
View ArticleThis Chart Proves That Many Internet Explorer Users Are Only Using It...
For many Americans, going into work every Monday is made just a little bit worse because their companies force them to use Internet Explorer. Redditor Flying_ScotchMan noticed a really interesting...
View ArticleMarkets Are Starting The Month With A 150 Point Rally
Markets are staging a nice rally to start the first day of the first month of the second half of the year. We just learned that the ISM manufacturing index climbed to 50.9, after dipping to 49.5 in...
View ArticleEurope Is Coming Back
Things are overall still a mess in Europe, but the latest numbers it make it clear: Europe is coming back. PMI readings (which gauge the health of various countries manufacturing sectors) showed...
View ArticleIntel Just Forced Its CTO To Step Down Because He's Too Old
Intel CTO Justin Rattner See Also Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner has resigned from his position due to an Intel policy that forbids corporate officers to be older than 65. Rattner is...
View ArticlePierce Brosnan's Daughter Dies At 41
Actor Pierce Brosnan (L) and daughter Charlotte arrives at The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) at the Odeon Leicester Square on February 19, 2006 in London, England. Selena Gomez Posts a...
View ArticleHumans Have Been Decorating Graves With Flowers For 13,000 Years
In a human tradition still around today, ancient humans from Israel decorated graves with fresh-picked flowers before burying their kin. These are the earliest examples of flowers being used to line...
View ArticleA Lot Of People Are Wondering Whether Edward Snowden Actually Wrote His...
Slate's Farhad Manjoo first wondered if National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden actually wrote the statement released by WikiLeaks Monday night, pointing to the unusual use of the plural...
View ArticleThis Pillow Glows When Your Long-Distance Partner Goes To Bed
The minds at UK-based design shop Little Riot have created a pillow that might be just what your relationship needs. Romance is complicated just by itself, and when you add distance to the equation...
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