courtesy Boeing Co.Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner is aloft again, as test flights of the troubled plane have started. Regulators still do not know what caused the battery problems that grounded the plane.…
ThinkstockShrinking European GDP Standard & Poor’s has put another nail in the coffin of the prospects of an eurozone recovery. The rating agency expects the region’s gross domestic product to shrink this year and…
courtesy of General Electric Co.No company, perhaps other than Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), is revisited by investors for its failure to grow and prosper more than General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). The tenure of…
Wikimedia CommonsFines of energy companies continue to be the rage among the news media. Perhaps it is the hangover of the huge bonanza of press coverage following the BP PLC (NYSE: BP) Deepwater Horizon…
courtesy of Google Inc.Bill HB 3057, proposed in the West Virginia legislature by 56-year-old Republican Gary G. Howell, would establish “the offense of operating a motor vehicle using a wearable computer with a head-mounted…
courtesy of AOL, IncCarl Icahn may join Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) in a joint effort to buy Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). (Reuters) The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 begins test flights after battery…
ThinkstockAccording to a recent study, the city with the most content residents in the United States is Lincoln, Neb. The city with the most miserable residents is Charleston, W.Va. The Gallup–Healthways Well-Being Index, which…
thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Stereotaxis Inc. (NASDAQ: STXS) is up 30.2% at $2.33. Novogen Ltd. (NASDAQ: NVGN) is up 18.8% at $5.24. SemiLEDS Corp. (NASDAQ: LEDS) is up 15.17%…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following an agreement between the government of Cyprus and the “troika” of the IMF, the EU, and the ECB (more coverage here). There was no economic data…
24/7 Wall St. has been delivering readers many lists of stocks that offer upside as the S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average are within striking distance of all-time highs. The DJIA an…
ThinkstockIn an announcement today in Beijing, China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top planning agency, said that steel production in the country has reached a point where only modest growth can be…
ThinkstockWhen New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley spoke in New York today he didn’t really say anything new, but he did underscore a point that he and several other Fed officials have been…
Courtesy of American ExpressIf the market does not want to try to chase shares of American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) higher, perhaps the company can do it all on its own. The credit card…
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.Last week’s launch of the new Z10 smartphone and operating system from BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) fizzled and the company is paying the price today. In a note to clients, Goldman…
ThinkstockThe German Council of Economic Experts has lowered its economic forecast for Germany for the year 2013. The good news is that this remains positive on the growth front. The bad news is that…