As the US Federal Reserve announced $600 billion in treasury purchases yesterday afternoon, gold investors pushed prices of the precious metal up substantially this morning. At the time of publishing, Gold was trading on the New York Spot Market for $1378.90 an ounce, up over $30 from yesterday’s closing price. As The Federal Reserve puts [...]
Today on the New Jersey Election ballot there was a question that seems to be confusing the vast majority of the state’s voters. Voters find it ironic that the state is asking an important ballot question to voters, yet make the question so hard to interpret that even lawyers aren’t even sure what it is [...]
The most important thing beside who you will vote for, is of course getting to your voting location on time. There is nothing more frustrating than stepping out of the door, forgetting, or not knowing where you have to go to vote. Don’t worry though, the internet will save us all. If you forget where [...]
As we all know, Florida has seen some of the most dramatic falls in real estate prices and the total number of homes sold since the housing market collapsed. Although things are bad in much of the state, it seems that the real estate market in Florida may be on the mend. Some of the [...]
We are getting numerous reports that the Discover Card login page is not loading properly. It seems as though the secured login part of the Discover Card website may be down, while the rest of the site remains up and likely working correctly. It is hard to tell if members can actually log in at [...]
Du Pont founded, Wilmington Trust Corporation of Delaware has agreed to allow M&T Bank Corporation to acquire them for $351 million in company stock. This is 46% less than they were valued at last week. Wilmington Trust has been struggling quite a bit lately. They have reported 5 straight quarters of losses. They were about [...]
Pfizer has extended the recent recall on Lipitor to an additional 38,000 bottles. This is after two recalls in the last three months of the drug, after a musty and moldy odor was found coming from the bottles. Back in August Pfizer recalled 140,000 bottles of Lipitor, and another 191,000 bottles just two weeks ago. [...]
Last night was certainly a big one for anyone who had Mega Millions tickets. The jackpot was $140,000,0000, enough to certainly allow you to quit your job if you have one. Anyhow, there was a winner of the Jackpot, coming from Michigan. In addition to the grand prize winner in Michigan, six people in total [...]
The former CEO of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Dean W. Jeffers passed away on Wednesday. Jeffers is known best for helping increase the company’s growth in the 1970′s. He also played an important role in moving Nationwide Insurance to Columbus, Ohio. Dean Jeffers was the Chief Executive Officer of Nationwide from 1972 until 1981. One [...]
Reports started about an hour ago that the Virginian Pilot newpaper Website, Pilotonline, was down. We have confirmed that the Pilotonline.com website is not loading at this time, and currently brings up a “500 – Internal Server Error” message. It is interesting however that the sub domains of the website do seem to work, indicating [...]
