The American retail industry had banked on a 3.7% overall growth rate in 2015 holiday retail sales. https://nrf.com/media/press-releases/national-retail-federation-forecasts-holiday-sales-increase-37 The announcement of a 7.9& overall growth rate in sales largely debunks a persistent view of consumers hoarding the windfall energy savings…

The completion of a 50 million passenger per annum airport in Mexico City has major implications for the passenger traffic flows to airports operated by Grupo Aeroportuario Del Sureste (ASR-NYSE, $161.38), Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico (PAC-NYSE, $95.37) and Grupo Aeroportuario…

CLL is diagnosed in roughly 15,700 persons annually in the United States. https://www.lls.org/sites/default/files/file_assets/facts.pdf GILD has announced that the success rate of their drug Zydelig has been so successful that the study data resulted in an unbinding of the placebo control…

The denouement of a sectoral investment trend is characteristically well telegraphed. A cable transmission is received. Typically terse, it notes either the demise of, or the malfeasance by, a much admired and widely held company and is generally read in…

A transaction to purchase Visa Europe, mentioned some months ago on this site, looks to be in the latter stages of negotiation. A successful conclusion may be announced as early as the date of the quarterly results. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/european-banks-set-windfall-visa-160050401.html As indicated…