US Markets

DJIA8149.09chart-679.95
NASDAQ1398.07chart-137.50
S&P 500816.21chart-80.03
2008-12-01 16:04

Intl. Markets

FTSE4065.49chart-222.52
DAX4394.79chart-274.65
Nikkei8397.22chart+0.00
2008-12-01 11:46

Commodity Futures

Oil49.28chart-5.15
Gold768.25chart+0.00
Copper1.65chart+0.00
2008-12-01 17:45

Treasury Yield

13 Weeks0.01chart-0.01
5 Year1.72chart-0.22
10 Year2.72chart-0.24
2008-12-01 14:59

Exchange Rates

JPY93.17chart+0.00
EUR0.79chart+0.00
GBP0.67chart+0.00
2008-12-01 18:10

Archive for April, 2008

Happy Tax Freedom Day South Africa! »

Today is Tax Freedom Day in South Africa, the second Tax Freedom Day of the year (India was the first).
As a reminder, Tax Freedom Day is the day when the average tax payer has stopped working for the government and has started working for themselves.
This Tax Freedom Day was calculated by The Free Market Foundation.

News by Democracy »

Digg.com is a news article website which, unlike regular news websites, is entirely user generated. Users post articles of interest to the site, and then are able to vote which articles they prefer. If a certain article garners enough votes in a small period of time, it will jump to the front page [...]

The Week In Review… and Other Fun Links: »

This week at Dumbagent.com… we welcomed a new guest writer, Andy Liau. Andy comes to us with a BS Degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. His debut article, A Timeline of a Financial Collapse, can be found here. Andy is currently working in the financial sector at a [...]

High Yield Savings Rates »

In a constant attempt to find innovative ways to bring you the most relevant and up-to-date information, we now showcase our list of high yield savings accounts through the use of Google Docs. With it, we can now display our data on multiple spreadsheets (while remaining on the same page) and have both [...]

Sub-Prime Primer »

If you haven’t been able to wrap your head around this whole ’sub-prime mortgage crisis,’ here’s an easy to understand slide show on what basically went down. It’s nothing new but we felt the need to share it once more just to make sure everyone was aware of it’s existence. It’s also one of [...]