The World’s Largest Automakers
Courtesy Toyota Motor Corp.After being third behind GM and Volkswagen in 2011, Toyota regained the top spot in 2012 as the largest auto manufacturer in the world, according to a recent report. Toyota Motor…
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Newest first · Page 119Friday Closing Bell: Markets Ignore Tepid Data to Close Higher
September 13, 2013: U.S. markets opened higher Friday morning after mixed reports on the retail sales and producer prices. The preliminary reading on September consumer sentiment came in well below the August reading and…
Second-Quarter U.S. Solar Installations Rise 15%
ThinkstockSecond-quarter 2013 results for solar power markets offered a mixed bag. Residential solar installations were flat quarter-over-quarter, commercial installations were down 11% and utility-scale installations jumped 42%. The United States installed 832 megawatts of…
Consumer Sentiment Slumps
ThinkstockThe Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for September dropped to 76.8 from a final reading of 82.1 in August. The September index is the lowest reading since April. Economists were expecting…
Top Stocks to Buy From Oil Companies That Grew Production the Most in 2013
ThinkstockWith the price of crude consistently over the $100 mark this year, we wanted to find the companies that had increased their production the most. While simply increasing production does not guarantee a higher…
U.S. Retail Sales, Producer Prices Signal No Taper
ThinkstockAccording to today’s report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce, seasonally adjusted retail and food services sales in August rose 0.2% month-over-month and 4.7% compared with August 2012. Economists had…
UBS Offers Eight Well-Known International Large Cap Dividend Ruler Stocks
ThinkstockWith yields on 10-year Treasury bonds up nearly 1.5% since early May and briefly touching 3.0% last week, the impact of higher rates on stocks continues to be top of mind for investors. The…
A Value Opportunity in Big Oil Stocks?
ThinkstockThe run-up in crude oil prices that got rolling in mid-April has pushed West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices from around $87 a barrel to almost $110 a barrel. That is a gain of…
Chrysler: Contentious IPO Nears
Courtesy Chrysler Group LLCItaly’s Fiat SpA may hold an initial public offering (IPO) for Chrysler Group LLC as early as the first quarter of next year, according Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. But that is…
Your Smartphone Tells You Where You Are, Someone Else Is Watching
courtesy of XiaomiWhile you are watching yourself, someone else may be too. And most smartphone owners are watching themselves so that they can know where they are. According to new of data from the…
Twitter IPO Will Be the Most Perfect of All Time
TwitterTwitter filed papers for its initial public offering (IPO). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed the filing to be essentially secret because of rules that apply to companies with revenue of less than…
Minimum Wage to $10, at Least in California
Wikimedia Commons/creative commonsThe announcement must have sent shudders down the backs of fast-food chain and big-box retail chief executive officers. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker…
The Countries with the Most Multimillionaires
ThinkstockAccording to a recent study, the United States is home to about one in every three ultra-high net worth individuals — those with $30 million or more in total assets. At last count, 65,000…
Thursday Closing Bell: Markets Fade at Close
September 12, 2013: U.S. markets opened mixed again Thursday morning with the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 both just slightly better than last night’s close. The weekly report on new claims for jobless…
States With The Most Zombie Homes
ThinkstockThere are more than 770,000 homes in foreclosure in the U.S. According to the latest data provided by RealtyTrac, roughly one in five of these, over 150,000 in all, has been abandoned by its…