Reuters – China’s factory inflation cooled in December as manufacturers expanded more slowly after a strong run in growth, lessening the need for the country’s central bank to tighten monetary policy too far.
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The new year may prove to be the real resurgence in deal-making, with Howard Lanser, Robert W. Baird and Tom Burnett, Wall Street Access.
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CNBC’s Mandy Drury sits in Maria Bartiromo to discuss the day’s top business and financial stories, and look ahead to Monday’s Closing Bell.
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Reuters – With the economy showing signs of life but millions of Americans still out of work, some newly elected or re-elected governors are keeping their inaugural parties simple, ranging from blue jeans to barbecue.
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Individual Americans will realize the most benefits from new rules and tax changes that take effect starting at midnight.
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AP – It was a dramatic ride for bonds and the mortgage market in 2010 as an economic crisis in Europe and wonky concepts like “quantitative easing” helped push down yields to levels not seen since the 1950s.
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AP – In better days, newly elected governors were welcomed into office with star-studded galas and serenades by rock bands. But with many now facing multibillion-dollar deficits and high unemployment, they’re toning it down.
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Using long term analysis, Professor Robert Shiller, macromarkets chief economist at Yale University and the co-creator of The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, told CNBC on Friday that the S&P 500 will reach 1430 by the year 2020.
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Joliet, a working-class city best known for the Stateville prison, a munitions plant, oil refinery and the Blues Brothers, has a lesser-known but sweeter claim to fame as the home of the first Dairy Queen.
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Reuters – Money flows to global equity and other stock funds accelerated during the fourth quarter, signaling a possible twist in 2011 from the record investments made in bond portfolios over the last year, according to a report published by EPFR Global on Friday.
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