Posts Tagged ‘ Market ’

$2.33 a Gallon Gas Scares OPEC into Cutting Production

Driving to work today, I sighted something I hadn’t seen in quite a while. The price of gas at one of the local gas stations had reached $2.33 a gallon. Living in the midwest, we have some lower gas prices than other locations, but this was still quite a drop from the $4.00+ price tag [...]



What a Difference a Year Makes in the Financial World

Yesterday was the anniversary of the highest close of the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJIA). As little as a year ago, the DJIA was riding high to a 14,000+ day and things were going great. Well, maybe not great, as people were beginning to see the housing bubble starting to pop, and even then there [...]