ThinkstockAlthough Amgen Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMGN) $10 billion offer for Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ONXX) was unsolicited and not exactly a stalking horse bid, that’s what many observers expect to be the result. By turning…
ThinkstockThought it is barely above the poverty line, many Americans believe that they can live on $24,000 a year. The number is implausibly low, but perhaps a sign that many people have set their…
courtesy of ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has more than $1.2 billion in cash it probably will never use — the fruits of its initial public offering (IPO). Unless the game company plans to make…
courtesy of Kia MediaKia’s run as a hot brand in the U.S. car market could be over. With a sales drop of 4.5% in the first half, the trouble that company has had recently…
You heard the great hope behind the Arab Spring after riots and coups in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in Northern Africa and the Middle East. If Egypt’s economic numbers were translated elsewhere into a…
July 1, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after a blast of economic data from both Asia and Europe. In China, June manufacturing PMI slid lower. Japan’s economics minister said the country’s…
Jon OggCredit Suisse has issued its top stocks to buy in the small-cap and mid-cap equity strategy, which are its picks with a market cap less than $7 billion. Each Credit Suisse analyst identified…
Courtesy BlackBerryBlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), formerly known as Research In Motion, has seen its shares crushed since Thursday’s close due to a very disappointing earnings report with lower BlackBerry 10 shipments on Friday morning. Analysts…
ThinkstockToday’s announced acquisition of Local TV Holdings and its 19 TV stations by The Tribune Company follows a script mapped out earlier this year by other TV station owners like Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc.…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is getting a big bounce on Monday after an upgrade from Raymond James. This was covered in our top analyst upgrades and downgrades on Monday morning, but we…
ThinkstockThe stock market may have seen increased volatility of late, but stocks are still in a bull market. 24/7 Wall St. has evaluated the best performing technology stocks of the S&P 500 so far…
courtesy of Ford Motor CompanyIn a deal to close a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigation, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) has agreed to conduct a “customer satisfaction campaign” to inspect and fix…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average may have seen its volatility pick up lately, but we are technically still in a bull market, with gains of 13.7% so far in 2013. Second-quarter performance ended up…
ThinkstockAfter markets closed on Friday, News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) formally split itself into two pieces: a publishing company still to be called News Corp. and a movie and TV company named Twenty-First Century Fox…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau reported this morning that construction spending in May rose by 0.5% to an estimated seasonally adjusted annual rate of $874.9 billion from an upwardly revised estimate of $870.3 billion in…