I'll update the article, but it was the buy in by the hedge funds I'm referring to, not the original acquisition.

Love how Wall Street rewards evil deeds. Every time. They should ban trades on a stock on layoff news or doing something to stop a guaranteed increase in the stock price the minute a company decides to screw over their employees.

I'm very surprised to hear just the iPhone being mentioned. Stands to reason the NSA has completely hacked Android as well.

there i said it.... of course it was in the works among right wing think tanks going back to at least the early '70's you can say Ronny Raygun made it acceptable to eviscerate as much of the new deal as possible and usher in the decade of greed is good and pounded the first nail into the casket of the middle class.... the rest was followed up by Clinton and his corporate democrats ....

i call 'em as i see em ... good luck

i figured that even if December PCE was flat, (ie, goods sales down 0.2%, services up 0.1), PCE would still be up at a 3.8% annual rate in the 4th quarter...

even though some are marking up their 4th quarter estimates, most are still expecting a weak 4th quarter, mostly on inventories; i dont see it, and i havent seen a negative report yet; most are slightly positive, like the increase in durables inventores you cover here..

This is most amusing, the NSA routinely intercepts computers, hard drives and other technology to modify them and add their spyware and exploits.

Thing is, while corporate America was so fast to manufacture in China, this enables China to add their spyware at the time of manufacture! Seriously, huge security risk and finding things at the firmware, bios level is really tough.

Manufacture in China also guarantees one's product will be reverse engineered.

bear this out as well, still such a large increase in Q3, what goes up usually goes down.

Retail sales look like they won't be good for Dec. from Xmas sales reports.

Finding women over 80 probably are not on social media that much, but laudable goal. I imagine there are many who are horrified at what has happened to their country.

I agree completely! When I heard Google was going to be tapped to fix the mess, I didn't understand why Amazon was also asked. Isn't Amazon.com over in the Herndon, VA region where Healthcare.gov is being created? Yes! Google is on the other side of the US. None of this makes sense. Why Google when Amazon is so proficient with ecommerce? Also, Ebay is right over in Philly and that's a heck of a lot closer than San Francisco, which is where Google is based. Perhaps Google has a few small offices in the DC area, but still.... the way this entire thing has been managed is a true joke. It symbolizes why we need to stop believing India has all the answers. All India has is really good at doing is fouling its own nest. Now it's encroaching on ours.

But if you put all of other retail sales together it might be an impact. I have a pie graph, not updated since 9./13, which shows retail sales by volume.

If one takes GM, online (I thought online exceeded), and some of the other where foot traffic would matter, say Liquor stores, it could counteract the growth in auto sales. But the auto industry is doing their Xmas marketing thing as well, so, TBD.

I believe people are smarter shoppers and wages, income are still flat, repressed, the unemployed group static, millions and millions not counted who need a job, i.e. middle class tapped out.

Wall street forgets there are limits on credit cards. ;)