ThinkstockResearcher find two measurements which best gauge air quality. One comes from object data about the quality itself. The second comes from the perceptions of the people who live in the nations. Each rates stands distinguishable…
ThinkstockOut of nine initial public offerings (IPOs) tentatively scheduled for the week ending November 22nd, five actually took place. Here’s a look at how they performed on the first day of trading. Liquefied natural…
Google Inc.If you live in Brazil and want to purchase the latest Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5S, you’ll pay the equivalent of $1,585 for the 16 GByte model that costs about $200 (with a…
MicrosoftWhich company will rule the America TV experience? Will it be primarily hardware or software based? Will it be a cable company which relies on ancient set-tops and primitive pay per view? An online service like…
ThinkstockIf anyone wants to understand the advantage Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has over rivals who sell merchandise online, he only has to look at traffic data. Amazon has more than twice the number of visitors to…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Standard & Poor’s on Friday announced that J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is getting booted from the S&P 500 index effective after markets close on November 29th. It’s just…
Courtesy of Boeing Co.On Friday The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) notified customers for its 747-8 and 787 Dreamliner that planes equipped with the GEnx engine from General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) could have an…
ThinkstockWhat happens when everyone hates an investment or when everyone likes an investment? A contrarian investor would say it is time to go the other way. Gold has gone from shinola to you know…
ThinkstockIf Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) are seriously going to do a joint offer (or individually) for Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC), 24/7 Wall St. cannot help but…
Jon OggTwitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is now two weeks old and it is still valued somewhere around 50-times sales. The stock lost about 3% this last week and shares were right at $41.00 at…
November 22, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened mixed Friday morning with the DJIA opening lower after its record-setting close above 16,000 on Thursday. An interesting JOLTS report from the Labor Department indicates that U.S.…
Daimler AGAfter nearly a week of press previews, the Los Angeles Auto Show opened to the public on Friday and will run through next weekend. The number of new cars, concept cars, announcements, and…
ThinkstockThe world around venture capital sometimes creates some very interesting reading when you look at private company valuations versus public company valuations. In this case, it is in the online streaming music service of…
ThinkstockThe country’s two largest cable operators, Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) have reportedly had discussions in the past few months related to a combination. Time Warner took the…
ThinkstockThis is going to sound a bit counterintuitive on the surface, but there is some good news in the American jobs market: more Americans are quitting their jobs. The U.S. Labor Department has issued…