FiskerIf you have been following the trends in hybrid cars and all-electric cars, you probably think of Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) as the winner in the high-performance electric car market. You would be…
ThinkstockDrought conditions in the U.S. have improved somewhat from last year, but much of the Midwest, from the Dakotas to Texas, continues to suffer from moderate to exceptional drought. Conditions improved a bit last…
Goldin AuctionsWhen people think of investing, they generally think of stocks, bonds, commodities or even real estate. They probably do not think about sports memorabilia and baseball cards. That may be good in general,…
Courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; photo by Chris RupertToday marks the opening of the long-awaited in-store shops at J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) stores. About 500 of the company’s 1,100 stores will unveil…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsIt has been quite a week for news website Business Insider. Co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief Henry Blodget was the subject of a profile in The New Yorker and…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.While there have been some negative comments around the new Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) Home initiative from Thursday, we have found two analysts making very positive comments on the stock. We…
ThinkstockAfter markets closed last night, F5 Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) cut its estimates for earnings per share and revenues, and the stock took a beating. Shares are down about 19% in early trading today,…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThis will sound highly counterintuitive, but the extremely weak payrolls report from the Labor Department may in fact be good news for those who have wanted an opportunity to get back…
ThinkstockThe real terror of the March unemployment figures was not that the economy added only 88,000 jobs. Much worse than that is the lack of improvement in the situations of those battered the most…
Courtesy Maersk LineThe U.S. trade balance, better known as the trade deficit, was reported as -$43.0 billion for the month of February 2012. This is down from the -$44.8 billion expected by Bloomberg and…
ThinkstockShares of Exide Technologies (NASDAQ: XIDE) were the big losers yesterday. The stock price fell about 48%, and trading in the shares was halted for five minutes in the middle of the afternoon. The…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsFriday’s report from the Labor Department is finally here. We had seen lowered expectations ahead of this report due to weaker reports from weekly jobless claims, ISM manufacturing and nonmanufacturing…
courtesy of Apple Inc.With earnings season kicking off next week and a plethora of challenging global news hitting the tape, investors are becoming a touch skeptical of the current rally. Are we hitting a…
courtesy of MicrosoftThe worldwide market for combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones is expected to total 2.4 billion units in 2013, rising to nearly 3 billion units by 2017. It is probably…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are usually on the hunt for new ideas that will generate positive returns or income. 24/7 Wall St. looks over numerous research calls to find great ideas from value stocks…