After a decline in 2015, U.S. patenting activity rose to a record high in 2016. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted 304,126 patents last year, up from 298,407 in 2015. The increase was largely driven by West Coast technology companies, including Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Boeing, IBM, Intel, Google, and Microsoft. Read Full Story »
The U.S. housing market improved over the course of 2016. Home purchases are up, foreclosure activity is down, and in a vote of confidence for the U.S. economy, the Federal ... Read Full Story »
When consumers hear about computing, usually it is now about smartphones, tablets, or ultra-portables. It has been the case for years that no one wanted to actually talk up the ... Read Full Story »
January 11, 2017: Here are four stocks trading with relatively heavy volume among 25 equities making new 52-week lows in Wednesday's session. On the NYSE, advancers led decliners by more ... Read Full Story »
January 11, 2017: Markets opened slightly higher Wednesday as politics ruled the news. Energy was today's best performing sector even though the EIA inventory report was hugely bearish. Countering the ... Read Full Story »
Biotech and pharma companies were on the move Wednesday. A few of the smaller caps made tremendous gains on the day, while a couple of the major firms saw massive ... Read Full Story »
A recent study by analysts at Paysa, released on Tuesday, pointed to a 10% gap between the actual pay and the market value for more than a third of professionals ... Read Full Story »
The wealthiest parts of the country are clustered around metropolitan areas in the Northeast, the Mid Atlantic, and the West Coast. Of the 15 wealthiest major U.S. counties based on ... Read Full Story »
Giving its customers yet another reason to pay the $99 annual fee for Prime membership, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) announced a new Amazon ... Read Full Story »
The Trump rally has helped push the broad markets to new highs, and with earnings season kicking off on Friday, we can see what this rally is made of. In ... Read Full Story »
Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) first announced its new, fuel-efficient 737 MAX family in 2011. At the introduction the plane was available in three versions: the 737-7 (MAX 7), 737-8 (MAX ... Read Full Story »
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 4.1 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial ... Read Full Story »
Last year was considered a total reversal of fortune for major oil companies. While some of the second-tier and third-tier oil players saw massive gains, rather impressive gains were seen ... Read Full Story »
As 2016 has ended and 2017 is afoot, it is important to consider what may be coming ahead rather than just relying on what happened in the prior year. A ... Read Full Story »
If there was ever a contrarian trade for 2017, it would be the power-generating utility stocks. The sector had a huge run in 2014 and 2015 as investors crushed by ... Read Full Story »
The average fuel-economy rating for new vehicles sold in the United States in December 2016 was 24.9 miles per gallon, down 0.1 mpg compared with the revised November average. For all ... Read Full Story »