Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsOn the day that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) came public last year, more than 580 million shares of the company’s stock changed hands. No other trading day since then has…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued a final rule for the amount of renewable fuels to be added to the nation’s transportation fuel supply in 2013. Oil refiners, biofuel makers, and fuel…
ThinkstockBuyers looking for a new house or homeowners looking to refinance a mortgage get hit with a blizzard of fees and charges that are collectively known as closing costs. The costs vary depending on…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is a very important stock to the broad stock market. It is worth some $210 billion, and it is the largest stock of the Dow Jones Industrial…
The world of media convergence gets stranger and stranger by the month. Old media wants to be new media, but now it seems that the billionaires want to control the world of old media.…
thinkstockWhere you come down in the current debate (war?) over which industry will control the living room TV set depends largely on whether you believe that entertainment is a top-down or a bottom-up industry.…
ThinkstockIndia is supposed to be one of the great BRIC emerging market nations that offers massive growth and opportunity for investors. Some 1.2 billion people live in India, and its economic expansion historically has been a…
ThinkstockWall Street is seeing the quiet period end for two recent hot initial public offerings (IPOs) this Tuesday. CDW Corp. (NASDAQ: CDW) and HD Supply Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: HDS) have both performed very well,…
ThinkstockThe trade balance, better known as the trade deficit, widened out in May to -$45 billion in the preliminary report, and now the June report shows that the trade deficit came in much lower…
ThinkstockMost of the big retailers had a “choppy” July, and many are hoping for a strong back-to-school selling season. Since school starts around the country anywhere from mid-August in the South to the day…
ThinkstockThe average age of all light vehicles on U.S. roads rose to a record high of 11.4 years in 2013, up from 11.3 years in 2012 and 10.8 years in 2010. The data comes…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are looking for fresh research ideas now that the markets are at all-time highs. Some investors are looking for income and others are looking for capital gains in long-term value…
ThinkstockEach of the independent refiners to report second-quarter earnings so far have shown year-over-year declines, reflective of a sluggish demand environment, rapidly compressing crude differentials and escalating renewable identification number (RIN) costs. While the…
ThinkstockArcher Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM) reported second-quarter 2013 earnings this morning. The agribusiness giant posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.46 on revenues of $22.54 billion. In the same period a…
courtesy of General MotorsThe 2014 Chevy Volt from General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) will hit showroom floors with a sticker price $5,000 less than the 2013 model. Adding in government rebates, the price of…