Family Dollar Store Inc.Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) reported its earnings after the market closed Thursday as $0.73 in earnings per share and $2.61 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $0.77…
Jon OggAny time you have a stock market where the S&P 500 is down 40 points (2.07%) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 334 points (1.97%), it is called a sea of…
ThinkstockOctober 9, 2014: Thursday has been a tough day for equities. We’ve already covered in more detail three stocks that have fallen to new lows today: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU); Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon and Jeff Bezos have a pledge to sell you just about anything you want to buy, and lately they have been willing to do it for nearly free. Word has been out…
thinkstockOctober 9, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday as crude oil prices continued to sink and the dollar strengthened. Every sector traded lower today even though new claims for unemployment benefits were below the…
ThinkstockAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) was all set to have a great day after its stellar third quarter earnings report on Wednesday night. The problem is that the market was soft and only got softer…
ThinkstockThe Secretary General for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), H.E. Abdalla Salem El-Badri, issued a statement to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday. He touched on a few key points of…
ThinkstockAs home prices have risen over the past few years, so have the number of homeowners who have seen an increase in the equity in their homes. Many of those homeowners refinanced their mortgages…
ThinkstockThe European Central Bank recently left interest rates unchanged at its most recent rate policy communication. This was on the heels of the prior cut in rates where Europe is experimenting with a negative…
Lakeland Industries shares have skyrocketed since the beginning of October as investors take a pessimistic view on recent Ebola news.
A group called the Modern Markets Initiative has introduced "a framework designed to guide the critical, ongoing review of (our) financial marketplace and its impact on investors."
Zynga has announced that it launched its new Words With Friends game, but it is not likely to regain the heights that the original reached.
Investors have decided that the U.S. government should only have to pay 3.074% to borrow money for its 30-year bonds in the latest long bond auction.
A report from the Center for Audit Quality shows that investor confidence in U.S. public companies is at record highs.
Despite recent stock market volatility, Oppenheimer has issued another favorable research report on Pandora.