IPO News This Week: Chinese Electric Car Maker Nio Leads Off September

Posted: September 9, 2018 at 9:02 am

Last week's initial public offering (IPO) action amounted to two offerings that raised $975 million for two blank-check companies. After the IPO market's usual late summer holiday, five offerings are ...
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5 Must-Dos for Home Sellers

Posted: September 9, 2018 at 8:28 am

Nearly every real-estate story you read these days has a sentence (or a paragraph) about the tightness of the housing market, especially for first-time buyers. Not only are homes available ...
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More Than 75 Million Americans Won’t Pay Federal Income Tax This Year

Posted: September 9, 2018 at 8:21 am

The U.S. federal income tax system is "progressive." That means that the more income you earn, the more federal income tax you pay. That is a feature, not a bug, ...
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Musk Won’t Matter If Tesla Reaches Production Targets

Posted: September 9, 2018 at 8:13 am

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) investors believe that the company's share price will continue to plunge if founder Elon Musk' bizarre behavior continues. More realistically, if Tesla's long-term production goal of ...
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Adobe, Kroger and More Earnings Coming This Week

Posted: September 9, 2018 at 7:15 am

The second-quarter earnings reporting season is all but over, and though things will be quiet on the earnings front for a while, there still will be a few notable companies ...
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Towns and Cities With the Shortest Names

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 8:16 pm

Have you ever wondered how a town or city got its name? Many places are named after a person that had a role in establishing them. Other city name ...
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Towns and Cities With the Longest Names

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 11:42 am

If you were asked to write the longest word you know, what would it be? Perhaps, Mary Poppins' legendary song,” Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?” How about a city name? Can you recall visiting, ...
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Will Ford’s Mustang-Inspired All-Electric SUV Change the Game?

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 9:25 am

At January's Detroit Auto Show, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) dropped a few hints about a new all-electric, high-performance sport utility vehicle that originally was called the Mach 1 and ...
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Apple Rolls on as Dow’s Top-Performing Stock

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 8:35 am

Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) declined about 1.7% last week, but that was not enough for the tech giant to drop out of its spot as the best-performing Dow ...
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Procter & Gamble Returns to the Dow’s Cellar

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 8:25 am

Consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) dropped the best part of two percentage points last week to go into the weekend as the worst-performing Dow Jones industrial ...
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Elon Musk Only Owns 22% of Tesla Shares

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 8:00 am

Elon Musk, the unstable founder and CEO of Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), runs the electric car company as if he owns it. He does not. His position as head of ...
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Black Unemployment Rate Remains Above 6%

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 7:55 am

The economy added 201,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate stayed at an extraordinarily low 3.9%. But black Americans have a rate that was 62% above the national rate, ...
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A gift from Apple: 600,000 hours of Alex Jones

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 7:50 am

From Apple Has Permanently Banned Alex Jones’ Infowars App From The App Store, posted Friday by BuzzFeed’s John Paczkowski:   The App Store has been a valuable platform for Infowars. ...
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Where was Lina Kahn when Apple needed her?

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 7:50 am

This Yale lawyer says today’s antitrust laws are empowering Amazon, not curbing its excesses.   From Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea posted Friday by the New York Times: ...
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Major Biopharma Catalysts on September’s FDA Calendar

Posted: September 8, 2018 at 7:10 am

Biotech and pharmaceutical companies generally are involved in the lengthy process of getting their drug candidates to market through clinical trials. The amount of risk involved ranges from fair to ...
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