The nation does not know what is coming down the pipe on gun control. After the Newtown massacre, everyone knows and is braced for some form of gun control. President Obama appointed Vice President…
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyIn the run-up to this year’s Super Bowl, soft drink maker Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) will run advertising highlighting the company’s low-calorie beverages and pointing out that consuming too many…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been having its share of problems as a stock. If the reports of lower component and parts orders are true for the iPhone 5, then the reports…
ThinkstockRetail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is exploring the possibility of offering health insurance to small-business owners by setting up a health insurance exchange. The exchanges, which were created under the provisions of…
The stock market is down Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.09%, the Nasdaq down 0.57% and the S&P 500 down 0.33%. Today’s winners include a smartphone manufacturer gearing up to release…
ThinkstockBy Jen Alic of Oilprice.com New pipelines may provide new revenue for US refiners, which have seen big gains in 2012 and are now seeking to ride the wave of success. HollyFrontier Corp (NYSE:HFC),…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse is out with its outlook for semiconductors in 2013. The report sounds great at first when you hear “Irresistible Cyclical Bottom,” but then you have to realize that it is followed by the…
courtesy of Toyota Motor Corp.Although the company has not yet finished counting sales for 2012, Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) claims to have sold more than 9.7 million units in 2012, allowing the company…
ThinkstockCancer ranks on the list of global killers as number two. Over the years, great strides have been made not only in cancer treatment but in survival rates for many different forms of the disease.…
ThinkstockMortgage industry technology and services company Lender Processing Services Inc. (NYSE: LPS) reported today that mortgage delinquencies rose to 7.12% in November 2012, up from 7.03% in October, but down from 7.83% in November…
ThinkstockIf you were looking for confirmation that sales of personal computers were weak during the holidays, look no further. Gartner has released its data, which said that global PC shipments declined by 4.9% in the…
ThinkstockThe 2012 to 2013 flu season has reached what is officially at pandemic levels. The government report last week showed that more than 7% of the deaths in the prior week were tied to…
ThinkstockConsumer electronics retailer hhgregg inc. (NYSE: HGG) announced preliminary results for its fiscal third quarter this morning, and the results were not pretty. The company expects quarterly sales to be down 3.6% from the…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far from Wall St, research calls this Monday: American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) cut to Neutral on valuation/price at Goldman…
ThinkstockAfter a solid year for information technology spending by major corporations in 2012, companies surveyed by analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) suggest that spending will decline in 2013. In fact estimates have dropped to growth…