ThinkstockAirline stocks have been a frustrating mistress over the past 25 years. Investors became accustomed to airlines and their frequent trips to bankruptcy, and then often to the airline graveyard, where Eastern, TWA, Pan…
Courtesy Tesco plcLondon-listed grocery store chain Tesco announced Monday morning that the store is launching its own branded seven-inch tablet. The device, which will go by the brand name Hudl, is priced at £119…
courtesy Boeing Co.Is this the fourth or the fifth technical problem that Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA has experienced with the two 787 Dreamliners it recently purchased? Hey, who’s counting? Well, Norwegian Air Shuttle is…
ThinkstockAngela Merkel won a third term as Germany’s chancellor. Her Christian Democratic Union and a smaller ally took more than 41% of the vote. If Merkel can create a closely knit coalition, she can rule the…
courtesy of YouTubeThe largest Internet companies have described video content as critical to their futures. Video advertising carries a huge premium to the banner ads that have dominated the industry’s revenue stream for years.…
ThinkstockData from both China and the European Union showed that any post-recession slowdown will not turn into another dip. A few months ago, slowing PMI and EU economic numbers that dropped like a rock…
courtesy of Apple Inc.A long line of buyers, or sold out products, may not mean much. Yet, the media and some Wall Street analysts made out that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) had another raging…
ThinkstockMaybe it just feels like it (or looks like it), but the upcoming layoff of 4,500 people at BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) had some company this past week. A number of other firms across…
September 20, 2013: U.S. markets opened mixed Friday but very near the flat line. That was the high-point for the day for the DJIA and the S&P 500; the Nasdaq Composite actually rose to…
Courtesy of BlackBerryTrading in BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) was halted at about 3:00 p.m. ET on Friday as the smartphone maker slipped in a preliminary report on its fiscal second quarter 2014 report. The…
ThinkstockCybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE) and advertising technology company Rocket Fuel Inc. (NASDAQ: FUEL) both launched initial public offerings Friday morning, and both are posting share price gains of more than 90%. FireEye…
GameStop.comTake-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) may not be seeing much of a follow-on gain for its shares after the release of the notorious Grand Theft Auto 5. The reason is that shares had at…
It is not often that a secondary stock offering sends a company’s shares higher, but we are seeing that very phenomenon Friday morning. Chinese solar PV maker JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) and…
Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. is a big fan of dividends, and we expect that there will be several big dividend hikes coming down the pipe from Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) components. That is particularly…
Courtesy Sony Corp.Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) launched its next-generation handheld gaming device, the PlayStation Vita, in the United States last November, and to say that it has been a modest success may be a…