Economy - Monday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Market News&#39; retail trade index for the week of June 16 fell 1.4 points from the previous week to 40.1. Same-store sales growth was just 0.6%. Companies are curtailing new openings. Layoffs and bankruptcies are rising.
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Investor's Business Daily - Major league baseball spring training is getting under way. And President Bush's proposed federal budget has as many proposals to change personal finance programs as batting practice has home runs.
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Investor's Business Daily - For the week ended Aug. 31, the Economic Cycle Research Institute&#39;s Weekly Leading Index rose to 140.4 from 139.2 the prior week after declining for 6 straight weeks. Higher stocks, better housing activity and jobless claims helped weekly numbers. But the index&#39;s annualized growth rate fell to 0.6% from 1.3% the prior week. That&#39;s a 43-week low, but not yet a signal that recession is on the way, the ECRI said.
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Investor's Business Daily - The ABC News Consumer Comfort Index fell 6 points to -33 in the week ended Feb. 3. The index dived 13 points in the last month. It fell 13 points in 4 weeks ahead of the '90-'91 recession and 14 points in the 4 weeks leading up to the '01 recession. Just 26% say it's a good time to buy, the lowest since July '93. 52% are positive on their own finances, but that's down from 58% a month ago.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 China&#39;s leading stock index tumbled 6.5% after Beijing tripled a tax on stock trading to cool its booming market. Investors have been skittish on China since ex-Fed chief Alan Greenspan warned that its bubble could bust. But unlike in Feb., when a Shanghai swoon sparked a worldwide selloff, U.S. stocks rallied.
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Plus: IBM, Yahoo post high...AMD posts loss...Sony TV unit struggling...Nokia on upswing...Apple beats expectations.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s applications index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.3% to 622.9 in the week ended Aug. 31, but multiple applications and refilings caused by recent credit problems may have played a role. Activity could slow on higher interest rates. The MBA said a dearth of demand for short-term loans sent 1-year ARM rates to 6.52%, near week-ago levels but well above longer-term rates. Average 30-year mortgages edged up to 6.42% from 6.41%. ARMs made up just 12.6% of applications in the week, down from more than 30% just a few weeks ago.
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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual fund managers put some of their cash to work in September as their view on inflation improved and oil prices fell.
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Investor's Business Daily - Predictable may be boring, but it&#39;s preferred by Janus Enterprise Fund.
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Investor's Business Daily - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered the market some soothing words Wednesday to counter consumer price and housing data that raised concerns about inflation and an economic slowdown.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investor confidence returned to real estate stocks after the Fed&#39;s half-point 18ate cut. The S&amp;P REIT Composite Index shot up 6% the next day.
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Investor's Business Daily - One of the questions swirling around the global credit crisis is how it will impact private-equity deals, which ran at a record pace for much of the year.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors got a friendly package from FedEx Wednesday: big quarterly results and higher forecasts.
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Investor's Business Daily - Stock markets have soared in India for the last few years. HDFC Bank has held on for the ride.
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Investor's Business Daily - While rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM struggle with change, computer giant Dell showed its consistency Thursday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors who held interests in real estate investment trusts and home-building exchange traded funds celebrated last week as real estate shares surged. But don&#39;t break out the champagne yet -- analysts say caution should be your operative approach.
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Investor's Business Daily - These are good times for owners of mutual funds that go short.