The Most Popular American Brands In China
courtesy of StarbucksBy 2030, roughly two-thirds of the world’s middle class will be in the Asia Pacific region, largely in China, according to a report by Ernst & Young. Currently at around 150 million…
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Newest first · Page 265LinkedIn Draws the Line at the World’s Oldest Profession
ThinkstockOn Monday, LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) revised the user agreement for its online professional network to exclude certain businesses and at least one profession. The company said that it has always forbidden its users…
Cisco Earnings to Dominate Calendar
courtesy of Cisco SystemsCisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to release its corporate earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday. Thomson Reuters has estimates of $0.49 earnings per share (EPS) and $12.18…
Samsung Captures Virtually All the Profit in Android Market
courtesy of SamsungTo say that Samsung Electronics dominates the market for smartphones using the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an understatement. The Korean electronics giant reaps 95% of the profit…
Southwest Airlines Chases Delta, Raising Its Dividend and Stock Buyback Game
courtesy Boeing Co.Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is living up to what we expected last week. After Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) jumped the gun with a dividend declaration and new stock buyback…
Dendreon Gets Prostate Cancer Competition for Provenge from Bayer’s Xofigo
via Wikimedia CommonsDendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) has been facing problems getting its Provenge sales for advanced metastatic prostate cancer through to the market. Even a direct to consumer advertising campaign has so far failed…
Crude Oil Futures Continue to Slide as Gasoline Inventories Rise
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories decreased by 600,000 barrels last week, bringing the total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 394.9 million…
iPhone Market Share Falls in Q1: Gartner
courtesy of Apple Inc.In the first quarter of 2013, worldwide mobile phone sales totaled nearly 426 million units, up about 0.7% compared with the first quarter of 2012. Smartphone sales comprised nearly half the…
SunPower Raises Full-Year Guidance
ThinkstockThe good news from the solar sector just keeps on coming. Today it is from SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), which issued financial guidance for the 2013 fiscal year. At the end of the company’s…
No Inflation, but New York Fed Manufacturing Zone Enters Recession Levels
ThinkstockMore economic data is out for the markets to chew on. The good news is that inflation appears to be remaining nonexistent. The bad news is that manufacturing in the New York area is…
Apple, Foxconn Drifting Apart
courtesy of AppleThe tight relationship between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Hon Hai Precision Technologies, better known as Foxconn, appears to be fraying. The Taiwanese-based manufacturing giant is being pressured by another Taiwanese firm,…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Stocks to Buy: Ciena, Gap, Halcon and More
Investors and traders are always on the lookout for fresh research ideas that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls to find great ideas from…
Top Analyst Downgrades and Stocks to Sell: BlackBerry, LinkedIn, Renren and More
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Wednesday, May 15, 2013. They include BlackBerry, LinkedIn, Renren and E*Trade Financial.
Jefferies Gives Industrial Stocks of the Month to Buy
ThinkstockJefferies is out with its industrial picks of the month as stocks to buy. The higher the stock market goes, the more difficult it becomes for investors to put money to work. When breaking…
Macy’s Earnings, Dividend Increase Point to New High
thinkstockMacy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The department store giant posted quarterly diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.55 on revenues of $6.39 billion. In the same…