US commercial crude oil stocks rose 3.899 million barrels to 327.480 million barrels during the week that ended December 23, as imports increased and refiners cut back utilization and inputs, data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Thursday showed.   The crude stock build was counter to analysts expectations of a 2.3-million-barrel draw, but less ...

Apparently it was heavy losses on his currency trading that prompted John Maynard Keynes to quip that "markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." Perhaps one of the root causes of irrationality, particularly in oil markets, remains the human element. The impulsive, sometimes selfish, emotional and -- yes -- ...

Fear not, rockists: all is not lost. Just because the mainstream, as buffeted by major labels, has been resistant to new ideas for several years doesn't mean it can't be infected. Bubbling below the mook-rockers, the '90s revivalists and the toothless oldsters are plenty of microscenes, any one of which could be seized upon by A&R ...

Facebook now reaches 55 percent of global audience. It should come as no surprise that social networking has reached near ubiquity among Internet users here in the U.S. According to recent comScore data, 98 percent of the U.S. online population uses social media, with females spending an average of 7.9 hours per month on social networks, ...

In the beginning of 2011 I wrote an article on another blog about what to do with an FM3 if you are not interested in renewing it. Here is the text of that article: I recently received a question about canceling an FM3, or at least not renewing it. My instant response in my head was: ...

Without learning about Apple’s press release on its Christmas sales, we have no choice other than relying on the data from a Cell-phone analytics firm & tweets originated from the senior vice president of Google with a view to making some rough inferences. According to the Flurry Analytics, which claimed it is capable of detecting the “roughly 100%” of the ...

In the post-Holiday sales review, Sears has made the decision to close up to 120 stores, including both Sears and K-Mart, resulting in a loss of up to 10,000 jobs (Reuters), add to that the continual decline in housing, where foreclosures remain up and the average price of homes continues to drop. (PBS). With retail and housing slumping, and ...

Britain's Prince Philip returned to the royal family's country estate Tuesday, after a spell in the hospital undergoing treatment for a blocked coronary artery. Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's 90-year-old husband, spent four nights in the hospital recovering from a successful coronary stent procedure. He was taken to Papworth, a specialist heart hospital in Cambridge, on Friday ...

IT for a small business varies greatly in terms of scope, cost and purpose. Most small businesses which deal with commerce or some other basic product/service paradigm will only really need to worry about a website and the integrity of the company computers. This can best be accomplished through commercially available services and tools. Slightly ...

Release Date: December 25, 2011 Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of war violence)Genre: Drama, Adaptation, WarRun Time: 146 min.Director: Steven SpielbergActors: Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Neils Arestrup, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Celine Buckens, Eddie Marsan, David KrossLet's not forget that movies are moving pictures, and that a great director teamed with ...