http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/blogs/daily-ticker/ en-US Copyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:48:42 -0400 5 http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/blogs/daily-ticker/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/brand/purplelogo/uh/us/fin.gif With yields rising and investors fleeing bond funds in droves of late, it’s becoming conventional wisdom that the bull market in bonds is over. No less an authority than PIMCO’s Bill Gross, aka ‘The Bond King’, recently declared “the secular 30-year bull market in bonds likely ended” on April 29. Supporting that view, the yield [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/bond-bull-market-isn-t-dead-yet-longtime-154842420.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2013 11:48:42 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/bond-bull-market-isn-t-dead-yet-longtime-154842420Don’t be concerned about Google Glass and personal privacy says Virginia Heffernan. The Yahoo! News national correspondent who has been writing about her experiences with Glass tells The Daily Ticker that the product is no spying tool-- in fact it isn’t much more than a "small iPhone strapped to your head... If I were making [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/google-glass-user-lighter-side-surveillance-134047133.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2013 09:40:47 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/google-glass-user-lighter-side-surveillance-134047133Global investors are on hold, waiting for comments from the Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee on when the central bank will wind down its monthly $85 billion purchases of mortgage-backed securities and Treasury securities. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke roiled markets earlier this month when he suggested that a tightening of current monetary policies could start before [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fed-statement-could-lead-amateur-hour-markets-130359279.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2013 09:03:59 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/fed-statement-could-lead-amateur-hour-markets-130359279The waiting is the hardest part. But soon financial markets may know a little bit more about Fed monetary policy than they know right now. At 2pm eastern time, the Fed will release its latest statement on policy followed by its latest forecast for the economy. Then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will host a news [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/bernanke-fed-don-t-know-quit-qe-david-110323992.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2013 07:03:23 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/bernanke-fed-don-t-know-quit-qe-david-110323992New home construction rose less than expected in May. It’s the latest housing data after Monday’s surge in homebuilder confidence was reported. The Commerce Department said today housing starts rose 6.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 914,000 units versus expectations of 950,000. Reuters reports this miss likely reflects labor and material constraints. [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/homebuilders-holding-off-construction-game-rising-prices-160552087.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2013 12:05:52 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/homebuilders-holding-off-construction-game-rising-prices-160552087At Google's (GOOG) shareholder meeting earlier this month, CEO and co-founder Larry Page defended Google Glass and promised that everyone will get used to "wearable tech." That remains to be seen but despite potential privacy issues, there is no shortage of video on YouTube and elsewhere of people taking advantage of the 5 megapixel camera [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/playing-tennis-looks-while-wearing-google-glass-154702366.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2013 11:47:02 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/playing-tennis-looks-while-wearing-google-glass-154702366David Stockman is no stranger to what he calls the U.S. military-industrial-security complex. He tried to cut--not just trim--the defense budget during his tenure as director of the White House Budget Office under President Reagan but met stiff resistance from the White House as well as the defense establishment (and that was when the defense [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/edward-snowden-heroic-says-david-stockman-150758788.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2013 11:07:58 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/edward-snowden-heroic-says-david-stockman-150758788On the eve of the Fed’s two-day policy meeting, President Obama added another level of uncertainty to the event by suggesting Ben Bernanke is unlikely to remain Fed chairman after his current term expires in January. Bernanke has “already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to," Obama told Charlie Rose [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/obama-gives-taper-meaning-next-fed-131936318.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2013 09:19:36 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/obama-gives-taper-meaning-next-fed-131936318Beware of coming off as a "Google Glass Jerk" in public. It's easy to do, Virginia Heffernan tells The Daily Ticker. She's a national correspondent for Yahoo! News and has been writing about her experience with her own pair of Google Glass. Over time, Heffernan says, everyone gets used to the idea, kind of... "After [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/five-things-know-google-glass-161008810.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2013 12:10:08 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/five-things-know-google-glass-161008810If you were shocked (shocked!) to discover last summer that the LIBOR market was being rigged, prepare to be flabbergasted: Regulators are investigating a number of global markets that appear to be subject to manipulation. “The probe of Libor manipulation is proving to be the tip of the iceberg,” Bloomberg reports, noting that various regulators [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/yes-markets-rigged-survive-shark-infested-waters-143233110.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2013 10:32:33 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/yes-markets-rigged-survive-shark-infested-waters-143233110One prediction made more than any other over the past couple of decades is that China's miraculous economy is headed for a fall. China bears have pointed to a long list of disasters-in-the-making: questionable economic statistics, skyrocketing real-estate prices, ghost cities, corruption, pollution, civil unrest and growing debt. Yet, despite all of these concerns, China's [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/china-credit-bubble-implode-fitch-analyst-142357036.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2013 10:23:57 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/china-credit-bubble-implode-fitch-analyst-142357036CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton is an outspoken advocate for financial reform to protect consumers, but he’s also outspoken about the lobbying and litigation that hold up the process. And there never seems to be an absence of stories that could leave the average investor feeling like the markets are, quite frankly, rigged against them. And [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/average-investors-better-off-since-crisis-top-regulator-110514449.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2013 07:05:14 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/average-investors-better-off-since-crisis-top-regulator-110514449In honor of Father’s Day, The Daily Ticker recently sat down with George and Oscar Feldenkreis, the father and son team who run Perry Ellis International (PERY). “I’m very happy my son decided to get into the business,” says George, chairman and CEO of the company. “That created an interest for the father to stay [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/american-dream-much-more-difficult-today-perry-ellis-171421753.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 13:14:21 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/american-dream-much-more-difficult-today-perry-ellis-171421753Can Superman Beat Iron Man? Warner Bros. sure hopes so. The studio’s $225 million Superman reboot “Man of Steel" will open in 4,207 theaters this weekend and is expected to be the blockbuster of the summer. The last time Superman hit theaters was in 2006 with "Superman Returns." Producers of "Man of Steel" are hoping [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/sleepless-seattle-producer-hollywood-catering-china-not-america-145919669.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 10:59:19 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/sleepless-seattle-producer-hollywood-catering-china-not-america-145919669Six years ago New York Times food writer and columnist Mark Bittman decided to change his eating habits for good. He was 40 pounds overweight and was diagnosed with high blood sugar and high cholesterol. Bittman knew that his risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes would increase if he continued to eat the [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/lose-35-pounds-without-dieting-125430268.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2013 08:54:30 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/lose-35-pounds-without-dieting-125430268In the latest gauge of rising rates, mortgage giant Freddie Mac reports rates for home financing are just shy of 4-percent this week, the highest since the week of April 12, 2012. [Click here to check home loan rates in your area] Related: Bill Gross: All Assets Are Risky, But I’m Buying Treasuries What’s different [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/mortgage-rates-aren-t-going-back-down-fannie-174009047.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 13:40:09 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/mortgage-rates-aren-t-going-back-down-fannie-174009047Tech writer David Kirkpatrick was aiming to get your attention with his column "Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?" Kirkpatrick appeared on The Daily Ticker to provide his answer: Maybe. The drama surrounding the NSA’s once-secret surveillance program of phone records and emails has unleashed a wave of worry about privacy issues for [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/did-obama-just-destroy-internet-162606178.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 12:26:06 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/did-obama-just-destroy-internet-162606178Opponents of genetically modified foods celebrated a new study this week that found pigs fed genetically modified grains were less healthy than pigs on a non-GMO diet. The team of Australian scientists and U.S. researchers divided 168 pigs into two groups: one fed a diet of genetically modified corn and soy; the other fed non-GMO [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/labeling-gmo-foods-not-radical-screwball-commi-plot-144007155.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 10:40:07 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/labeling-gmo-foods-not-radical-screwball-commi-plot-144007155Did Google (GOOG) buy Waze because it's a smart and valuable crowd-sourced mapping app? Or because Larry Page and others at Google didn't want Facebook (FB) to get it? Maybe a little bit of both. For weeks, Google and Facebook were both in the running to buy the mobile company. But The Daily Ticker's Henry [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/waze-deal-never-made-sense-facebook-blodget-141654145.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 10:16:54 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/waze-deal-never-made-sense-facebook-blodget-141654145Earlier this week the Senate passed a farm bill by a vote of 66 to 27 that would finance programs such as food stamps, foreign food aid and crop insurance. Mark Bittman, a food writer and columnist at The New York Times and author of several books including the “How to Cook Everything” series and [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/farm-bill-welfare-wealthy-mark-bittman-122403588.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 08:24:03 -0400blogs/daily-ticker/farm-bill-welfare-wealthy-mark-bittman-122403588