ThinkstockBlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) is highly troubled. News that more possible bidders are interested in competing against Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: FFH) to take the company private is surprising and obvious at the…
ThinkstockThe Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for October dropped to 75.2 from a final reading of 77.5 in August. The October index is the lowest reading since January. Economists were expecting…
ThinkstockPhilip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) has experienced more than impressive growth in both its share price and its profits in the past four years. Lately its gains have petered out. The problem is…
ThinkstockBattered by a host of complaints from refiners and blenders, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reported to be considering a reduction to the amount of ethanol required to be blended with gasoline…
ThinkstockHigh-yielding dividend stocks (such as utilities and telecom sector stocks) have significantly underperformed both the S&P 500 and high-dividend growth stocks over the past five months as interest rates have increased. Despite this underperformance, S&P 500 stocks…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) reported third-quarter results before markets opened Friday morning. The bank posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) that totaled $0.99 on revenue of $20.5 billion. In the same period…
Jon OggA new earnings season has started, and stocks and bonds are dealing with a likely patch for the government shutdown and the debt ceiling. So which are the stocks to buy and which…
Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) reported third-quarter results before markets opened Friday morning. The investment bank and financial services giant posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.42 on revenue…
courtesy of StarbucksFor a number of years, Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz has displayed a sort of arrogance about what he, and sometimes his coffee company, can do to save the world. The…
Courtesy Toyota Motor Corp.The very modest success of Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has been used as proof that the electric car has come of age and demand for these autos will soar. Nothing could…
ThinkstockYi Gang, the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, recently said that the world’s second largest economy has recovered from a nasty period in the first half of 2013. The Chinese miracle…
ThinkstockMicron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) reported fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2013 results after markets closed Thursday. The semiconductor company reported adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.20 on revenue of $2.84 billion. In…
October 10, 2013: U.S. markets opened higher Thursday morning and then rose further on news of new talks that would lead to a solution on the debt ceiling. Today’s report on new claims for…
courtesy GameStop Corp.The $8.2 billion deal that Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) made to repurchase its stock from France’s Vivendi S.A. was reinstated Thursday afternoon by the Delaware Supreme Court just in time for the…
ThinkstockThe initial public offering (IPO) of Antero Resources Corp. (NYSE: AR) got a lot of attention in June when the firm’s controlling owner, private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, filed for an IPO of…