courtesy of NokiaThis month was hardly a good one for any company, other than Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung, to release a new tablet. There is a blizzard of new products. And, the media…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.From the look of it, more retailers are going to be open on Thanksgiving day this year than ever before. The latest to join the throng is Best Buy Co.…
ThinkstockA 90-car train operated by a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (NYSE: GWR) delivering crude oil from North Dakota to Florida continues to burn Saturday after 20 cars and 2 engines derailed in…
Courtesy Volkswagen AGVW has enough problems in the U.S. It can barely give it cars away with “0% down, 0%” at signing. Research from firms which include J.D. Power and Consumer Reports do not…
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom about Thanksgiving and Black Friday winners and losers is easy to agree with to some extent. Shoppers will flock to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in greater numbers year after year as the…
ThinkstockThe unemployment situation in the United States looked relatively good through the first half of the year. The jobless rate dropped to 7.3% in October from 7.9%% at the beginning of the year. However,…
November 8, 2013: U.S. markets opened slightly higher Friday morning after the monthly report on non-farm payrolls showed a larger-than-expected gain. The preliminary report on November consumer sentiment came in low pushing share prices down…
ThinkstockAmong the long list of “next big things” one of the stalwarts has been LED lighting. It’s one of those technologies Yogi Berra might have had in mind when he said, “The future ain’t…
ThinkstockDesktop-based online e-commerce spending rose 13% year-over-year in the third quarter to $47.5 billion. Mobile spending, called M-commerce in the trade, rose 26% year-over-year to $5.8 billion. This is the 16th consecutive year for…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.24/7 Wall St. is watching a few key moves in the market and economy on Friday that should all be points of consideration over the weekend. We are calling these the…
ThinkstockTwitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) managed to stun the markets on Thursday with a solid initial public offering (IPO), and the reaction so far on Friday feels a bit like an IPO hangover. The Twitter…
ThinkstockThere are a number of similarities between Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD). Neither is a significant player in the most rapidly expanding part of the chip business —…
ThinkstockAfter the Labor Department stunned the market with much stronger payrolls data, the market is going to get to deal with a new reading on consumer sentiment. The Reuters/University of Michigan reading did not…
ThinkstockAt its annual investor day event Thursday, Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) announced a new three-year plan to drive its revenues higher and cut its costs. The company noted that in the period 2010 to…
Wikimedia CommonsMcDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) released its latest data on same-store sales growth. As the title of this post suggests, McDonald’s has run into a growth problem. We cannot figure out how it can…