Growth

Beijing -- China's economy this year is expected to grow about 8 percent from last year, while inflation is held at 3 percent, Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday.

I am going to tell you about a stock that analysts are completely wrong about.

One of my favorite analytical techniques involves slicing and dicing the Fool's universe of recommendations and scanning the results for emergent trends. That's step one. Step two involves comparing those patterns with developments in the economy, the broader universe of stocks, and the market's history.

London, December 29 -- According to latest figures from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, unemployment in U.K. will reach 2.8 million, rising continuously for the first six months of 2010.

New York, December 14 -- President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama sat with Oprah Winfrey for a special program, “Christmas at the White House”, which aired Sunday on ABC.

New York, December 12 -- Buoyed by the huge discounts offered by retailers to woo customers at the start of the holiday season, total retail sales rose 1.3 percent.

Many investors are increasingly convinced that the worst of the recession is behind us. Although optimism about future growthhas pushed share prices up fairly dramatically since earlier this year, it's taken awhile for that optimism to translate into higher expectations for company earnings.

To investors' delight, the topsy-turvy company that Celgene (Nasdaq: CELG) has become was more topsy than turvy in the third quarter.