courtesy Phillips 66Oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) reported third quarter 2013 earnings before markets opened Tuesday morning. The results were no better than good enough, but the company is looking forward to…
ThinkstockApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has not gotten the warm reception from Wall Street and investors that the fan boys may have hoped for after its quarterly earnings report. The long and short of the…
Jim Henderson, via Wikimedia CommonsIn a quarterly update press release Tuesday morning, Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) reviewed actions it has taken or is contemplating in an effort to “improve our financial flexibility and…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has shown a very mixed report on its coverage of utilities on Tuesday. We have seen one very positive call on Northeast Utilities (NYSE: NU), followed by caution in Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC),…
ThinkstockOn the afternoon of October 24, short-seller Muddy Waters said it was starting coverage of Chinese mobile Internet services firm NQ Mobile Inc. (NYSE: NQ) with a Sell rating and a price target of…
ThinkstockThe latest economic reading is the Conference Board’s report on monthly consumer confidence for October. The title of the report was “Consumer Confidence Decreases Sharply in October,” but this easily could have been “A Total…
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and served as a former head of the San Francisco Fed, was recently chosen by President Obama to…
ThinkstockBank of America Merrill Lynch has refreshed a huge coverage list of master limited partnerships, or MLPs. The firm has shown that forty-eight MLPs in its coverage universe have declared their third-quarter cash distributions,…
ThinkstockThe S&P/Case-Shiller home price index for August posted another month of solid gains. The 20-city composite rose 12.8% year-over-year, above the consensus estimate for a rise of 12.4% for the month. The 10-city index…
ThinkstockThe fracking revolution is helping to revive the U.S. oil exploration and production industry. It also is distinguishing the companies that are big enough and have deep enough pockets to finance the expensive process.…
Courtesy of 3D Systems Inc.3D Systems Corp. (NYSE: DDD) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The 3D printer maker posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.26 and $135.7 million…
ThinkstockInflation is just not appearing in the broad economic numbers. A fresh report from the U.S. Department of Labor actually is not that fresh, but it is the most recent report on inflation because…
ThinkstockArch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The coal miner posted an adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.01 on revenues of $791.3 million. In…
Jon OggWe are in the thick of earnings season, a deal was made in D.C. and stocks are challenging new all-time highs almost daily. So how do investors know which stocks to buy and…
ThinkstockWhile the Federal Reserve most likely will not taper its bond-buying program known as quantitative easing this fall, and perhaps not this year, the fact that interest rates are going higher at some point…