Costco, Dollar General, HP and More Major Earnings Coming This Week

Posted: May 27, 2018 at 10:20 am

The U.S. broad markets took a small step forward this week, as the main part of earnings season has come to a close. Although most companies already have reported earnings, ...
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IPO News This Week: Two Offerings on Short-Week’s Calendar

Posted: May 27, 2018 at 8:36 am

Last week's initial public offering (IPO) calendar included eight firms looking to enter the public markets. Six of the eight were successful and raised a total of around $1.4 billion ...
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10 Best US Cities to Flip a Home

Posted: May 27, 2018 at 8:29 am

You've seen the TV show and now you want to try it yourself. No, not base-jumping, but buying an old, run-down house for not much money, fixing it up, and ...
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How Hedge Funds Have Invested $6 Trillion for Q2

Posted: May 27, 2018 at 8:23 am

The 50 largest U.S. hedge funds manage more than $6 trillion in assets for thousands of investors who are willing to pay their hefty fees in exchange for better than ...
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Half Of Walmart’s U.S. Workforce Is Part Time, Capping Opportunity

Posted: May 27, 2018 at 7:35 am

If a new study by OURWalmart, an organization which loosely represents the interests of Walmart (NYSE: WMT) workers, is correct about half of the world's largest retailer's U.S. staff is ...
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More Forecasters See Potential For $100 Oil

Posted: May 27, 2018 at 7:02 am

The series of analysts who believe oil could reach $100 this year seems to grow weekly. Whatever the pace, the chance of $100 oil is back on the table for ...
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Procter & Gamble Remains the Dow’s Worst Performing Stock

Posted: May 26, 2018 at 8:55 am

Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) added about 1.2% to its share price last week, but that was not enough to shake off the company's ranking as the worst-performing Dow ...
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Boeing Continues as Top Performing Dow Stock

Posted: May 26, 2018 at 8:40 am

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) held on to its place last week as the top-performing Dow Jones industrial average stock for the year to date. The company's shares added about 2.5% ...
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Gas Prices Up 25% Since Last Memorial Day

Posted: May 26, 2018 at 8:30 am

At the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States is $2.97. That's 25% higher than last year's ...
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Car Sales Expected to Rise in May, but Ford’s to Crater

Posted: May 26, 2018 at 8:15 am

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) will be going the wrong way in May, as it has been across a number of its businesses recently, and as national cars sales rise ...
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SoulCycle Walks Away From IPO

Posted: May 26, 2018 at 8:05 am

SoulCycle, the cycling fitness spin cycle chain, has pulled its initial public offering. The strange thing about the decision is that it filed to go public in 2015. Either its ...
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Zoe’s Kitchen, Northern Dynasty Plummet into Friday’s 52-Week Low Club

Posted: May 25, 2018 at 4:04 pm

May 25, 2018: Here are four stocks trading with heavy volume among 73 equities making new 52-week lows in Friday's session. On the NYSE decliners led advancers by about 1.22 ...
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Chevron, Exxon Tank the Dow Friday

Posted: May 25, 2018 at 4:01 pm

May 25, 2018: Markets opened lower again Friday with the Dow and the S&P 500 trading in the red for the rest of the day. The Nasdaq broke into the ...
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100 Most Popular Musicians on Tour This Summer

Posted: May 25, 2018 at 3:16 pm

Summer is a time for the outdoors, for leisurely nights, and for having lots of fun. It's also the perfect season for concerts. Luckily for concertgoers in the United States, ...
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50 of America’s Greatest War Heroes

Posted: May 25, 2018 at 2:07 pm

There is no greater service to the nation than giving one's life for one's country. For those who gave what President Abraham Lincoln called in his Gettysburg Address the “last ...
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