Target Stores Join Retailers Opening Earlier on Thanksgiving
courtesy of TargetTarget Corp. (NYSE: TGT) said Monday morning that it plans to open its stores at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, an hour earlier than it has opened in the past. The company…
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Newest first · Page 50Holiday Shopping for IPOs After the Twitter Sale
courtesy of TwitterFor a roughly three-month period between Thanksgiving and the end of February, the number of initial public offerings (IPO) approaches zero. The last (and first) of the year’s most hyped IPOs occurred…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Twitter, Best Buy, Exxon and More
Jon OggNow that we are mostly through earnings season and now that stocks have challenged all-time highs recently, investors and traders alike have to start thinking about how to position themselves for 2014. Which…
Analyst See Small Cap Gold Stocks as Takeover Bait by Big Gold Producers
ThinkstockThe price of spot gold has been hammered over the past year. The top American gold producers have gone through waves of restructuring and cost cutting in an effort to squeeze out profits as…
UBS Large Cap Tech Stocks to Buy and Stocks to Avoid
ThinkstockFor the most part, earnings from the big technology companies came in at or above Wall Street expectations. Some clear trends have started to emerge as mega cap tech stocks that focus on the…
Shire, Novartis Deals: Pharmaceutical Shakeups Continue
ThinkstockThe wave of mergers and acquisitions in health care continues with two big announcements Monday. Drug maker Shire PLC (NASDAQ: SHPG) will acquire the rare disease biopharmaceutical company ViroPharma (NASDAQ: VPHM) in a deal…
Why Martha Stewart Living Cannot Be Sold
ThinkstockShares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (NYSE: MSO) have risen recently on speculation that new CEO Daniel Dienst can sell the company. There is virtually no chance of that. The publicly traded media firm’s…
Five Dangerous Dividend Yields Above 10%
ThinkstockInvestors have been told over and over to love dividends, as they provide income and stability to a portfolio. While those themes are often true, there can be a dark side to dividend investing.…
The Philippines Economy by the Numbers
By International Monetary Fund , via Wikimedia CommonsA massive typhoon has battered the Philippines. That will set back what has been a promising economy for years and make the nation’s troubling unemployment and poverty rates much…
Amazon Sunday Delivery Poses Threat to Retailers
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) challenge to large retailers is not just that it does not need physical stores to do business, nor that it has one of the most visited websites in America.…
Can Cisco and Wal-Mart Beat Earnings This Week?
ThinkstockEarnings season is in the process of winding down, but there are still some key earnings reports coming out. We are still getting key earnings and this week will bring the quarterly reports from…
4 Overvalued DJIA Stocks: AmEx, Intel, 3M, Microsoft
Jon OggIt is a bull market and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index have both challenged new all-time highs recently. For the market to keep rising, more stocks have to…
How Will Disney Handle the ABC and Jimmy Kimmel Protests?
twitter.com/jimmykimmelOver the weekend there was something very unusual: nationwide protests against Jimmy Kimmel and ABC over racism. The protest that I saw was on Saturday afternoon in Houston by the jam-packed Galleria, at the busy…
Washington State Gives Boeing What it Wants, Now It’s Up to the Union
Courtesy Boeing Co.Claiming that the deal will guarantee “tens of thousands” of jobs for the state, Washington’s legislature has approved an $8.7 billion package of incentives for The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) to ensure…
McDonald’s 500 Calorie Plus Menu
courtesy of McDonald'sMcDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) public relations department has been working overtime to show that the fast food chain cares about customer health. In September it announced: McDonald’s is partnering with the Alliance for…