Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE: DOLE) is making its re-return this morning and is joining in a long line of a very disappointing IPO market.  Dole may be the largest producer and seller of fresh fruits and vegetables in the world, but it is also effe...

Starbucks has been talking about its foray into the instant coffee business for some time. The product “VIA Ready-Brew” will actually launch in the US and Canada today. According to the company “Starbucks VIA is made with a p...

The Conference Board has just released its data on Leading Economic Indicators for August, and the gain here is actually a drop when compared to recent months.  LEI in the U.S. rose by +0.6% in August.  This is a gain on the surface but follows a g...

The Trade Balance, a.k.a. the trade deficit, for June has just come out at $27.01 billion, from a revised $25.97 billion. This comes in versus consensus estimates from economists at $28.7 billion. The exports were listed as $125.78 billion and th...

The Fed is expected to do nearly nothing as its members meet during the middle of this week. That nothing is in the face of what is now almost certainly a recovery which is beyond the wildest dreams of most economists. The Fed, by most accounts, was ...