The stock market had a good week on the heels of the "fiscal cliff" deal. So what's in store for America's financial future? Jim Axelrod speaks with Yahoo Finance senior columnist Michael Santoli.
When Al Jazeera becomes a major U.S. cable channel, as it plans, some Americans are likely to click past it, recalling the alleged anti-American tone by the pan-Arab network during the Iraq war a decade ago.
With the return of Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party to power in Japan, the market for US Treasuries may be losing its last external pillar of support. Re-elected on September 26th, Abe has quickly set a course for limitless inflation, saying Japan must "free itself from deflation and the strong yen." This is significant to the global economy as Japan is the largest foreign power left ...
With the return of Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party to power in Japan, the market for US Treasuries may be losing its last external pillar of support.
The market bounced hard off intraday lows to finish only marginally negative after news that the House of Representative will reconvene Sunday in hopes of pushing through a last-hour budget deal.