Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.Shares of BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) are sure to take a serious beating today following a dismal earnings report for the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year and an outlook…
ThinkstockAs the fracking revolution continues to drive production up and costs down all across the United States, companies that can deliver production beats are the companies getting big jumps in share prices. The energy…
courtesy of Google Inc.Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) lead in consumer electronics would have allowed it to launch an armada of new devices. It could look at the largest selling devices in the industry and…
Courtesy Volkswagen AGCar sales are on a tear. Through the first five months of 2013, U.S. car sales are up by 8.2%, compared to the same period last year. Some of the more popular…
ThinkstockFrance’s stat operation INSEE reported that French consumer confidence cratered in June. The region’s second largest economy may not be in as much trouble as Italy or Spain, but its citizens believe otherwise, at…
ThinkstockThe Boston Globe is barely there anymore. Its circulation has fallen so far that it is below those of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Honolulu Star Advertiser. And Boston, the home to one of…
Wikimedia CommonsIn a sign that Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has more cash on hand than the sense to use it wisely to create new drugs, its board approved a $10 billion share buyback. Pfizer…
ThinkstockThe signs that the German economy is in a recovery instead of a period of stagnation have continued to grow. Retail sales data for May confirmed this. The Germany consumer has become an engine…
June 27, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the reports on new U.S. jobless claims and personal income and a blizzard of data from Europe. Eurozone consumer confidence is still low, but…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released its preliminary report on June farm prices. The index uses prices from 1990 to 1992 as its base value (100). The June all-products price index rose…
ThinkstockGold for August delivery closed down 1.5% today, at $1,211.60 per ounce. But the really big news is what happened in electronic trading after the Comex closed for the day. The August contract fell…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Treasury Department auctioned $29 billion in 7-year notes today at a high yield of 1.932%, the highest yield on the 7-year notes since July of 2011. The bid-to-cover ratio was 2.61, within…
ThinkstockTV sets, ceiling fans, computers, and set top boxes are just some of the devices that could be built to reduce their energy use by as much as 50%, according to a new study…
ThinkstockWhen bond guru Jeffrey Gundlach talks, people listen. And today Gundlach spoke to CNBC’s Scott Wapner about the recent dive in the bond markets. In his conversation with Wapner, Gundlach called the end of…
ThinkstockShares of technology distributing firm CDW Corp. (NASDAQ: CDW) are up more than 8% at noon today following the stock’s initial public offering (IPO) at $17 a share. That price was at the low…