ThinkstockSince announcing Monday that it would offer an additional 8.5 million shares in a secondary stock sale, shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) have dropped from about $56 to around $46, the price…
ThinkstockThe U.S. recovery may have tame inflation and weak capacity and production, but now have the most highly watched report of the day, which is actually not even a government economic report. The Reuters/University…
ThinkstockWhen investors and the public hear about industrial production and capacity utilization, they might wonder what its place is when the United Stats has outsourced so much manufacturing and moved into a services and…
thinkstockPower equipment product maker Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) has priced a secondary stock sale of 6.5 million shares at $34.95 per share. The sale includes only shares held by CCMP Capital, and none…
ThinkstockSmithfield Foods Inc. (NYSE: SFD) reported fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The food processing firm reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.21 on revenues of $3.3…
ThinkstockThe U.S. current account aims to measure the nation’s international trade balance, and it considers all goods, services and unilateral transfers each quarter. Today’s report was a first-quarter measurement, so it should have little…
ThinkstockThe government of China failed to sell more than a third of new debt it had on the auction block this morning, the first such failure to reach its target in nearly two years.…
ThinkstockFriday’s big government release for economic data was the Producer Price Index (PPI). The aim is to measure wholesale inflation to determine what will happen to consumer prices and consumer inflation in the months…
ThinkstockIn 2012, the S&P 500 Healthcare Equipment & Supply index was up 15.1%, while the S&P 500 was up 13.4%. However, it was in-line with the broader S&P 500 Healthcare index, which was up…
ThinkstockAnalysts at HSBC have lowered their 2013 average platinum price forecast to $1,710 an ounce, a drop of 7.6% from a previous estimate of around $1,840. Earlier this year, demand for platinum from automakers…
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ThinkstockAlpha is one of those confusing terms used in the financial industry, but rarely defined. It is basically a performance measurement on a risk-adjusted basis. Alpha takes the volatility or price risk of an…
ThinkstockA crude oil pipeline owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) ruptured on March 29 in Mayflower, Ark., just outside Little Rock, as much as 19,000 barrels of heavy crude spilled into the streets…
ThinkstockGermany’s Siemens A.G. (NYSE: SI) and Finland’s Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) formed a 50-50 network equipment company with the catchy name of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) in 2007. Siemens is now looking for a…
courtesy of MicrosoftBest Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) have decided to set a deal for the world’s largest software company to have a store within a store, where Microsoft…