Asian stocks fell as worse-than- estimated U.S. economic data spurred concern about the pace of growth and as investors speculated the Bank of Japan (8301) won’t meet forecasts for monetary policy expansion. Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest carmaker, declined 1.4 percent in Tokyo as the yen strengthened against the dollar. Mizuho Financial Group Inc., […]

ABERDEEN, South Dakota — A South Dakota Board of Regents committee has endorsed a plan to create a training academy that could result in bringing 1,000 new tech jobs to South Dakota. Minnesota-based Eagle Creek Software Services announced last month it wanted to bring 1,000 information technology consultant jobs to South Dakota. The company […]

Tom Konrad CFA March Clip Art by Phillip Martin While the broad market of small stocks as measured by my benchmark the iShares Russell 2000 Index (IWM) managed to turn in a small 2% gain in March for the third month in a row, clean energy stocks repeated February’s performance, giving back more of January’s […]

Most everyone understands “offshoring”. Many have heard about “Onshoring” or “Reshoring”, in fact, we had a post on this recently. Now comes the idea of “Homeshoring”. “Homeshoring” is essentially a combination of “Onshoring” and “telecommuting”. For now, much of the “Homeshoring” jobs are centered around call center services. New technology allows jobs that were previously […]