ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Monday morning for the week ending October 11. The agency did not report petroleum status last week due to the federal government…
ThinkstockThe National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports that the seasonally adjusted annual rate of existing home sales in September fell 1.9% to 5.29 million from an downwardly revised total of 5.39 million in August.…
ThinkstockThe president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Charles Evans, said Monday morning in an interview on CNBC that the recently ended government shutdown has thrown U.S. fiscal policy into disarray and that…
ThinkstockThe big North American integrated oil and major oil-producing stocks will begin to release their quarterly results on October 24. The research team at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) are forecasting an…
courtesy of McDonald'sMcDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Monday morning. The fast-food restaurant chain posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.52 on revenues of $7.32 billion. In the…
courtesy of Google Inc.Tech is undergoing one of its every-15-year transitions, this time from a client-server basis to information technology as a service (ITaaS). According to the tech analysts at UBS, history advises exiting…
Stocks are at all-time highs again, and investors have to be wondering which stocks and sectors they should be holding, buying and selling. 24/7 Wall St. looks each morning for top research ideas that…
Jon OggStocks are at all-time highs now that a deal has been reached in Washington, D.C., and investors have to wonder which stocks are set to keep rising and which ones may have overstayed…
ThinkstockHalliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Monday morning. The oil and gas services company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.83 on revenues of $7.5 billion. In…
ThinkstockTellabs Inc. (NASDAQ: TLAB) is being acquired in a go-private transaction. The deal values the telecom equipment maker at $2.45 per share, and a private equity firm named Marlin Equity Partners and its affiliates…
ThinkstockRising oil prices and interest rates, as well as the political wrangling over the federal budget and debt, have not seriously hampered corporate economists’optimism about future economic growth. This is according to the latest…
courtesy of StarbucksStarbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is the latest global brand to be targeted by China Central Television (CCTV). The world’s largest coffee chain has pricing that is unfair and discriminatory in China, according…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release what is likely to be several new versions of its wildly successful iPad on Tuesday. It does so into a hailstorm of competing products. Analysts…
ThinkstockThe Chinese government agency that handles environmental issues told the residents of the huge city of Harbin to keep their cars and trucks garaged, as air pollution overwhelmed the city. It is the kind…
ThinkstockLinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNDK) did what few firms have been able to, at least with any believability. It has ranked the most “in-demand employers,” based on a huge sample size. The research comes from “billions…