Courtesy Sony Corp.Sales of Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4 reached 2.1 million units worldwide, temporarily giving it bragging rights over Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox. Given that the PS4 just launched and that…
ThinkstockApparently being all organic, natural or healthy is no longer an assured success in the grocery store business. A company called Natural Markets Food Group has announced that it will be closing its six…
December 2, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened mixed Monday morning and got a small boost from a decent report from ISM on manufacturing. The uptick didn’t hold though and stocks ended the day on…
Lions GateLions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: LGF) has managed to grow and grow, up to the point that it is now worth some $4.4 billion in market capitalization. The latest bump over the last…
courtesy of XeroxThis is a rare event we are seeing today. When was the last time anyone heard about anything great happening at Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX)? This document management provider has two positive…
courtesy of MicrosoftWith no fanfare and just a list of all the subsidiaries included in the deal, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday granted permission…
Life expectancy in the United States has risen in the past few decades. Based on data recently published in the OECD’s report Health at a Glance 2013, these are the 10 nations with the…
ThinkstockContinuing a trend begun in May, Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) on Monday commenced an initial public offering (IPO) of a logistics group called Valero Energy Partners L.P., announcing plans to sell 15 million…
ThinkstockGoldman Sachs has made several changes to stocks in its Internet universe coverage on Monday. Two downgrades stood out the most after looking at the calls, and others were boring enough that we decided…
twitter.com/jimmykimmelTwitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) has seen the underwriting analyst quiet period come to an end. This means that the analysts at the brokerage firms in the underwriting syndicate have now been freed up to…
ThinkstockCarmakers are expected to report November sales on Tuesday, and the consensus estimate calls for sales of about 1.2 million cars and light trucks, a gain of 3.6% over November 2012, according to Kelley…
ThinkstockThe Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has reported that November was yet another gain for its reading on manufacturing. The index rose to 57.3% in the November Manufacturing ISM Report on Business, versus 56.4%…
ThinkstockBarracuda Networks Inc. (NYSE: CUDA) was one of the recent initial public offerings (IPOs) of 2013, and it somehow did not perform as well as others despite being in the right space for cloud…
The stock market gains of well over 20% for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index have been a capstone of a multiyear bull market for stocks. That does not mean…
ThinkstockLess than a month ago, the planned initial public offering (IPO) for Hilton Worldwide Holdings was expected to raise about $1.25 billion that the company would use to pay down debt. The hotel chain’s…