Netflix, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and More Major Earnings Coming This Week

Posted: July 15, 2018 at 10:25 am

Earnings reporting season is upon us, with a few of the major banks kicking it off last Friday. But with this season comes high expectations, as the Nasdaq and S&P ...
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Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, IBM and More Dow Stocks to Watch This Week

Posted: July 15, 2018 at 10:20 am

Earnings reporting season for the second quarter has gotten underway, and 24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of the Dow Jones industrial average companies scheduled to report their ...
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IPO News This Week: 10 US Offerings Crowd the Calendar

Posted: July 15, 2018 at 9:43 am

Last week's initial public offering (IPO) calendar no offerings scheduled and none made a last-minute debut. The action picks up in the coming week with 10 IPOs slated to price ...
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UK Airshow All About Boeing, Airbus Sales

Posted: July 15, 2018 at 9:28 am

The bi-annual Farnborough Airshow opens Monday near London and this year's big story may be the dog that didn't bark--The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is apparently not ready to commit ...
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Luxury Home Prices Rising, Sales Booming

Posted: July 15, 2018 at 9:06 am

By most accounts, the U.S. economy is growing nicely, more Americans have jobs, and inflation remains under control. Looking at the market for luxury homes underlines that economic story. Prices ...
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Walmart’s No Prime Day

Posted: July 15, 2018 at 7:29 am

As Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) launches its largest event of the year, rival Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) is ignoring it. Amazon's Prime Day runs for 36 hours which begin on ...
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Detroit, Still Dead, Struggles With Population, Poverty, Blighted Housing

Posted: July 15, 2018 at 6:59 am

Downtown Detroit, near what is called the GM Renaissance Center, has had a renaissance. Corporations and entrepreneurs have revived the area near the Detroit River. Much of the balance of ...
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Best States for Dog Lovers

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 11:56 am

The phrase “it’s a dog’s life” referred to a hardscrabble existence. That’s because a dog’s life in older times was a life of subservience, of getting fed table scraps, living ...
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Papa John’s Schnatter Whines: Agency ‘Pushed’ Him to Utter Offensive Remark

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 9:20 am

While Papa John's International Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA) tries to distance itself from its founder's latest misstep, former CEO and now-former chairman John Schnatter shows that he doesn't plan to go ...
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3M Repeats as Dow’s Most Woeful Stock

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 8:40 am

Industrial giant 3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) settled last week in as the worst-performing Dow Jones industrial stock of 2018 after nabbing the distinction the week before. Even though the stock ...
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Nike Stays Put as Dow’s Top-Performing Stock

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 8:35 am

Athletic gear maker Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) tightened its hold as the top-performing Dow Jones industrials stock for the year to date. The shares added about 1.2% last week, following ...
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Amazon Still Plagued by Counterfeits as Prime Day Approaches

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 8:10 am

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is about to kick off its Prime Day, the largest single e-commerce event in the United States. Amazon continues to press its dominance in online retail. ...
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Miracle on a MacBook Pro (video)

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 8:05 am

With Google’s TensorFlow deep learning software library running on an Apple laptop, Abhishek Singh taught Amazon Echo to read sign language.   “If voice is the future of computing, ...
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7 Huge Analyst Calls That Were Largely Ignored or Overlooked This Week

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 7:55 am

The week of July 13 was another wild one for the equity markets. Investors are getting to grapple with a nine-year-old bull market that is facing rising gross domestic product ...
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No, there aren’t 5,000 Apple employees working on self-driving cars

Posted: July 14, 2018 at 7:50 am

CNBC issues a correction to New details about Apple’s autonomous driving technology revealed in complaint against ex-engineer Correction: A previous version of the story mistakenly said that 5,000 Apple employees ...
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