ThinkstockWhen the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards last year, the target performance for model year 2025 new cars…
Any time a major company files for an initial public offering (IPO) there will be skeptics. All companies have to cite “Risk Factors” in their IPO filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsBill Gates earned his position on Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) board and as its chairman because of his role as founder and long-time chief executive officer. Despite the outcry among…
courtesy of SamsungHTC, once viewed as a real contender against Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone franchise and the Galaxy line built by Samsung, lost money last quarter. Its potential, which was so bright two…
ThinkstockNormally the morning of the monthly jobs report, released at 8:30 a.m., is a frenzy of speculation about how many jobs the economy added in the past month and what the national unemployment rate was.…
ThinkstockMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is still fighting for relevance, but this week brought on a new argument that may only just be starting to take hold. With Steve Ballmer to be replaced as chief…
TwitterThe long-awaited S-1 filing from Twitter Inc. has now been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No formal terms have been set, but the company is filing to sell up to $1 billion…
ThinkstockWhat is killing the stock market is not just the government shutdown, at least not directly and not for the major part of it. Each week that the federal government is closed, it does…
4:14 p.m. EST: Word has been out that Twitter will file its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission before the end of the week. We are now expecting this A-1 filing to drop…
ThinkstockThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors Thursday morning released the public portions of the so-called annual resolution plans for 11 of the country’s largest banks. The plans were…
ThinkstockTuesday saw the wrap up of the 2013 European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) conference in Amsterdam, which featured key data from several of the companies covered by the biotech analysts at UBS. While…
ThinkstockThe federal government shutdown for lack of congressional action either on a new fiscal year budget or an extension of the fiscal 2013 spending levels has a relatively modest impact on the larger economy.…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 101 billion cubic feet last week, compared with an expected build of about 95 billion cubic feet anticipated…
ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll to population (P2P) employment rate fell from 43.7% in August…
ThinkstockThe federal government shutdown is creating some interesting website outages and making it very difficult to track certain developments. With it still being hurricane season, it is difficult to get formal tracking when so…