courtesy of AppleLarger screens and faster networks are leading to increased usage of mobile devices, especially smartphones, for watching video. That’s one conclusion drawn from a global survey of mobile phone owners conducted recently…
ThinkstockWith the overseas woes of Cyprus and Europe, we are closely monitoring the Treasury Note auctions on what is a shorter pre-holiday week. Unfortunately, the 7-Year Treasury Note auction seems to have missed the…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks declined by 95 billion cubic feet last week, slightly less than the decline of 83 billion to 87 billion cubic feet…
ThinkstockChinese for-profit education company Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (NYSE: AMBO) got some bad news earlier this week. A proposed buyout by private equity firm Barings Asia Private Equity Fund V L.P. was withdrawn following…
ThinkstockDollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) is a stock that we have said over and over is “money” for long-term investors. The one thing that has acted as a continued drag is that private equity backer…
ThinkstockAmericans are more confident in the economy than they were last year, a recent Gallup poll reveals. And optimism about the national economy, it appears, is largely driven by prosperity at the local level.…
ThinkstockThe maker of Vlasic Pickles, Celeste Frozen Pizza, Van de Kamp fish sticks and a variety of other frozen and packaged foods, Pinnacle Foods Inc. (NYSE: PF) priced its initial public offering (IPO) at…
When the holidays wound down and we started off 2013, all the Wall St. firms started to put out their top stock picks for the year. We covered those various lists so our readers…
ThinkstockThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a global growth report for 2013. While the global economy is said to be improving, the obvious drag pointed out was Europe. The United…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsStocks are fighting to get into positive territory on Thursday, ahead of a long three-day weekend in celebration of Easter. We have two key reports that investors are watching closely:…
ThinkstockIn the month of February, 54,000 U.S. homes were foreclosed, less than a revised total of 58,000 in January and down from 67,000 in February 2012, according to research firm CoreLogic Inc. (NYSE: CLGX).…
ThinkstockMuch of the research coverage on Wall St. from the bulge bracket firms is concentrated on the most liquid, best known stocks from the S&P 500. These names are recognizable to investors and are…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Thursday, March 28, 2013. They include Lululemon, Nike, Under Armour and United Technologies.
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.Although earnings surprised on the plus side this morning, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) reported lower unit shipments than analysts were looking for, and its subscriber number also fell from last quarter.…
thinkstockThe Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) reported fiscal third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The fertilizer maker reported adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.88 on revenues of $2.24 billion. In the…