Digital News Report

Digital News Report – Americans have a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to their credit score, a new survey from Visa found.
The company believes that if consumers don’t understand how their credit score is computed, they will have trouble improving their score before a major purchase, like a home.
“If people [...]

Digital News Report – Stocks are set for another day of gains Tuesday as markets in Asia and the Europe show signs of recovery after a dismal week. Nearly all of the S&P constituents are higher at the opening of the trading day in New York.
On Tuesday the Nikkei 225 in Japan shot up [...]

Digital News Report – Stock markets in Asia and Europe are opening higher in spite of a downgrade of Italian debt by the Standard and Poor’s rating agency.
The Shanghai composite index closed up 10.58 points (0.43%) to 2,448.37 and the Hang Seng index climbed 96.85 points (0.51%) to 19,014.80. In Europe, the [...]

Digital News Report – Stock markets closed lower on Friday as the Dow fell more than 300 points.
Traders were concerned that the Greek government would default on their sovereign debt. Last week there were reports that Greece was not making the proposed government cuts in order to meet the European Central Bank [...]

Digital News Report – President Barack Obama proposed a set of tax credits and spending increases to stimulate job growth this week.
“The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working”, the President told a joint [...]

Digital News Report – Stock prices are lower in Asia and Australia Monday after steep declines on Friday. Economic uncertainty pushed gold up and oil lower.
The Shanghai index was declined 48.47 points (-1.92%) to 2,479.81, the Hang Seng Index declined 596.51 points (-2.95%) to 19,616.40 and the Nikkei 225 dropped 166.28 points (-1.86%) to [...]

Digital News Report – The Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) reported an increase in both the 15-year and 30-year fixed rate mortgage interest rates. The 30-year fixed rate mortgages ended the week at 4.6 percent average and the 15-year averaged 3.75 percent.
The 4.60 percent average was with an average 0.7 point for [...]

Digital News Report – Apple announced that they have reached 15 billion downloads at the App Store™. The company said there are 200 million users that have either the Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, or Apple iPod, and use the App Store.
Apple has over 425,000 apps at their store for all their devices available for [...]

Digital News Report – Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced a new fulfillment center in Plainfield, Indiana that they plan to open this year. The 900,000 square-foot location will be needing hundreds of full-time and seasonal employees. Amazon is seeking applications for these job openings, because the facility should be completed this summer.
Additionally, Dave Clark, [...]

Digital News Report – Ford Motor Company announced the June 2011 vehicle sales increased 14 percent from the same time last year. There were 194,114 vehicles sold in June. There was a dramatic increase in Ford Explorer sales with an increase of 56 percent. However, fuel efficient models, Ford Fiesta and Focus [...]