By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. home resales hit an eight month-high in June, suggesting the housing market was gradually regaining momentum and would help the economy to stay on a higher growth path this year. The third straight month of home sales gains, reported by the National … Read entire story.
The art of “ticket splitting” — saving money by splitting up your journey by buying several tickets instead of one — has been around since the 1970s. But now the technique has gone mainstream after a website called “TrainSplit.com” was picked up by The Sunday Times. It uses legitimate …
by Joseph Joyce To fix or not to fix: Jeffry Frieden’s “Currency Politics” The decision by the Swiss National Bank to abandon its peg to the euro serves as an example of the relatively limited life spans of fixed exchange rate regimes. While the fragility of exchange rate commitments has …
The February report on Empire State manufacturing from the New York Federal Reserve is set for release at 8:30 am ET. Expectations are for the report to come in at 8.00, down from 9.95 in January. January’s report was a big bounce back after the reading unexpectedly turned negative in December. We’ll be …