STOCKS RALLY: Here's What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, SPX, QQQ)
Yes, the markets were open today. And yes, they rallied again to new all-time highs.First, the scoreboard:Dow: 16,294.6 (+73.4, +0.4%)S&P 500: 1,827.9 (+9.6, +0.5%)Nasdaq: 4,148.9 (+44.1, +1.0%)And...
View ArticleQ&A WITH PATRICK CHOVANEC: The Biggest Financial Story In The World Is...
Chinese interest rates have been spiking again. After a credit crunch in June, we saw seven-day repurchase rates surge to 8.94% on Monday, though at one point this went up to 10%. This was the highest...
View ArticleMcDonald's Tells Employees To Avoid Fast Food
McDonald's employee resources website has published a couple of posts bashing the nutritional quality of fast food."Fast foods are almost always high in calories, fat, sugar, and salt," reads one post,...
View Article34-Year-Old Mindy Kaling Has A Hilarious But Totally Honest Explanation For...
Mindy Kaling was hired as a writer on "The Office" when she was 24 years old. Nine years later, she's now writing, producing, and starring in a sitcom on Fox, "The Mindy Project." She's also written a...
View ArticleBill De Blasio's Daughter Reveals Her History With Substance Abuse
Chiara de Blasio, the daughter of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and soon-to-be first lady Chirlane McCray, revealed a history of battling depression and substance abuse in a video released Tuesday by the...
View ArticleFilmmaker Was Given $25,000 To Make A Promo Video For ‘Walter Mitty’ But He...
Indie Filmmaker Casey Neistat was offered $25,000 of Twentieth Century Fox's advertising budget money to create a promotional video with the theme “live your dreams" for the upcoming Ben Stiller movie,...
View ArticleThe Best-Selling Books Of The Year, According To Amazon
2013 was a year of mystery and thrills, at least according to Amazon's list of best-selling adult books for the year.While contemporary romance dominated last year's list with the likes of "50 Shades...
View ArticleThe Most Important Market In The World Right Now Is One That You're Not Watching
The most interesting question heading into last Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting — at which the FOMC ended up announcing the first reduction in the Federal Reserve's quantitative...
View Article23 Pictures That Will Make You Grateful For Your Commute
For most people, the daily commute to and from work is no fun.But if you think you have it rough, these photos will make you feel a lot better.Around the world, insane traffic, behemoth crowds,...
View ArticleThis Amazing Glowing Liquid Flows Uphill
You can make a gravity-defying liquid just by mixing a molecule called polyethylene oxide and water. The BBC show Quite Interesting put together a video demonstrating how it works. They even made the...
View ArticleThe New York Times Names Sushi Nakazawa Best NYC Restaurant Of 2013
Given his rare four-star review of West Village sushi den Sushi Nakazawa earlier this month, it comes as no surprise that New York Times food critic Pete Wells declared it the best restaurant of 2013...
View ArticleThe Internet Hates The Guy In The New Samsung Commercial
AdAge wants you to hate Samsung's new Galaxy Gear commercial more than Justine Sacco. Adweek thinks it's "Awesomely Bad."Agency Spy calls it "The Frontrunner for Worst Ad of 2013."It went viral on...
View ArticleRap Genius Confesses After It Was Caught Gaming Google
Rap Genius, a site that annotates song lyrics and other texts, just posted an open letter to Google after getting called out for shady link soliciting. In a blog post, web entrepreneur John Marbach...
View ArticleTranshumanism Will Change Everything
This is spooky stuff, but it's real and it's already happening.Humans are augmenting themselves with computers and technology that will expand their abilities, and it's going to get more advanced and...
View Article5 TV Ads Banned In 2013
As 2013 comes to an end, we've been highlighting the best and worst ads the year has had to offer.As such, we'd like to take a moment to acknowledge some of the ads that either never made it to the...
View ArticleThese Maps Show Where People From Different States Like To Vacation
Desti, a travel planning app, just released a series of maps that show where people from different states like to travel most.The app analyzed travel searches performed by its registered users to...
View ArticleApple's Strategy For Patenting Technology (AAPL)
Almost every day we get an email about some new patent Apple has filed.It's usually from a site that wrote up the patent news looking for us to link to their site. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't....
View ArticleThere Could Be A Security Hole In Samsung Galaxy Phones That The US...
Cyber security researchers at an Israeli university have discovered a potential flaw in Samsung's enterprise software for its Galaxy smartphones that could let hackers intercept personal data such as...
View Article16 Fast Food Chains We Wish Would Come To The US
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View ArticleFor No Apparent Reason Twitter's Stock Has Gone Bananas (TWTR, FB)
Merry Christmas to Twitter's shareholders!On a half day of trading for Christmas Eve, Twitter's stock went nuts, soaring 8.4% to $69.96.We have no idea why Twitter's stock is going bananas, but it's...
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