ThinkstockAlmost every financial and general newspaper or news website has as its headline a story about the record peak of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The same media appear evenly split on what happens…
courtesy of SamsungThe frenzy over the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy S IV increases by the day. The smartphone will replace the wildly successful Galaxy S III, which has been called the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:…
thinkstockIf there is any question about the existence of a new recession in Europe, statistics operation Eurostat answered it. The agency has reported gross domestic product data for the final quarter of 2012: GDP fell…
ThinkstockThoughts on Dow Record Almost every financial and general newspaper or news website has as its headline a story about the record peak of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The same media appear evenly…
courtesy of Kia MediaMarket penetration and bad PR have taken down Hyundai and stablemate Kia, which until recently were the hottest brands in the U.S. market. As sales of competitors rise, the two manufactures…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Beats Electronics discuss a content partnership. (Reuters) The European Union will fine Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for violating agreements about use of its browser. (Reuters) Google…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J.C. Penney Co. Inc.’s (NYSE: JCP) board has a problem. If it wants to sell the company, in lieu of kicking out Ron Johnson as CEO, as the Wall Street…
courtesy of Google Inc.Two things happened very recently that might halt the adoption of Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system, which is used in the majority of smartphones around the world. The first is that the…
The business of war is profitable. In 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion. Based on a list of…
Here are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUR) is up 48.3% at $3.04. MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE: MTG) is up 27.8% at $5.34 (new 52-week high today of…
You already have seen the positive earnings report from Sturm, Ruger & Co. (NYSE: RGR) and positive comments from sporting goods stores about gun and ammo sales. Now we have Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and it didn’t take long for the DJIA to blow past its all-time intra-day high of 14,198.10 (more coverage here). There was a little news and data…
ThinkstockWe are now within ten days of the release of the Federal Reserve’s new round of stress tests on how the nation’s largest banks will do if (or when) the economy goes back into…
ThinkstockThis is an unusual month because, due to a strange calendar in February, the monthly employment situation report by the U.S. Labor Department did not come on the first Friday of the month. This…
ThinkstockWe noted last week in our report on the first music industry profit in more than a decade that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was believed to be negotiating with music industry players to license…