courtesy of Google Inc.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is out with its corporate earnings report for the first quarter of 2013. The Internet search giant’s results were up 16% to $11.58 in earnings per share (EPS)…
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported third fiscal quarter results after markets closed today. The software behemoth reported adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.65 on revenues of $20.49 billion. In the…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reported its corporate earnings for its first quarter. The report came to $3.00 in operating earnings per share and $23.4 billion in revenue. Thomson Reuters had…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following the report on U.S. jobless numbers (more coverage here). In Europe, the only data out today showed that U.K. retail sales fell 0.7%, slightly better…
Investing in Russia and investing in China are not exactly the easiest places for U.S. institutions to commit billions of dollars for exposure. There are Russian ETFs and China ETFs, and there are of…
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsThere are about five dozen hybrid or all-electric cars available in the U.S. Of those, the editors of Kelley Blue Book chose 10 that they think are the best of the…
ThinkstockAs we said the whole way down, it may be a painful lesson or a fool’s game to try to predict or to try to catch the bottom on the price of gold. The…
ThinkstockAMR Corporation (AAMRQ) has managed to do something which will sound almost impossible, or at least illogical. The parent company of American Airlines is still in bankruptcy and is still in the midst of…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.In decision we predicted yesterday, a New York State appellate court judge denied a request from Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) prohibiting J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) from selling goods…
ThinkstockThat didn’t take long. Co-founder of and former Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) CEO and chairman Aubrey McClendon is back in the oil & gas business. McClendon’s last day at Chesapeake was April 1st,…
The great mystery and puzzlement behind Bitcoin may already be fading or disappearing. We recently questioned what the value would be for the price of gold or the price silver, based on speculators and…
ThinkstockShares of Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) rose as much as 3.2% this morning after the company posted first-quarter earnings that were considerably better than expected. Peabody’s earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.05…
IntelsatThursday’s initial public offering of Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) appears to be off to a bit of a disappointing start, at least on the surface. The world’s largest commercial satellite operator is private equity…
The Federal Reserve may have released its Beige Book on Wednesday showing no real risks to quantitative easing and to the $85 billion per month used for buying bonds. Despite three weak economic readings…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 31 billion cubic feet last week, slightly less than a build of between 33 and 37 billion cubic feet…