ThinkstockAugust 12, 2014: Stocks making new 52-week lows today included the following four firms. Ceasars Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ: CZR) saw shares fall nearly 18% to a new 52-week low of $11.26 Tuesday afternoon. The…
thinkstockAugust 12, 2014: Markets opened lower on Tuesday, took a brief turn into the green, and then settled into the red by mid-morning. Energy stocks led the decline as data on crude oil indicates…
ThinkstockSprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFM) reported earnings last week, and the stock managed to not keep falling. Then news broke on Monday night that Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO) and other selling…
The process of buying your morning coffee has sure changed over the last generation. Companies have strived to beat each other on quality, and we wouldn’t be fair to the public if we didn’t…
The U.S. Treasury Budget for July was announced Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday’s results followed close enough to analysts’ expectations that it should not rock the boat too much in either direction. The Treasury reported a $94.59…
courtesy of TwitterWhen Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) announced its second-quarter earnings late last month, the company estimated that 14% of its monthly active users (MAUs) used a third-party application to access the company’s micro-blog…
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.In 2013, Samsung Electronics claimed 31% of the global market for smartphones and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) garnered 15%. Those totals are on track to fall to 25% for Samsung and…
ThinkstockThe days of the solar industry being a pipe-dream that only eco-friendly green activists support are long over. When prices of polysilicon, one of the main ingredients used to make silicon wafers for solar…
courtesy of Cisco SystemsAs the earnings season winds down, the off-calendar quarter-end reports are coming out this week. Among the most important reports this week, if not the most important, is the one from…
courtesy Deere & Co.Deere & Company (NYSE: DE), one of the larger heavy equipment companies, will release its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday morning. Analysts speculate whether this farming and lawn equipment giant can…
ThinkstockDendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) has turned into one of those unsettling biotech stories: It went from great promise, to high hopes, to a reality check, and now to an incredibly uncertain future. Dendreon hit…
ThinkstockThe International Energy Agency (IEA) in its July release projected 2014 oil demand growth of 1.2 million barrels a day. It also projected at the time that demand would rise to 1.4 million barrels…
ThinkstockAccurate colon cancer screening has usually involved a colonoscopy, an invasive and unpleasant procedure many chose to avoid. But on Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first and only non-invasive stool DNA…
Volkswagen Group of AmericaFor the first seven months of 2014, Volkswagen AG’s U.S. passenger car sales fell by 13.6% year-over-year. Globally, however, the company reported Tuesday morning that passenger car sales were up 3.8%…
ThinkstockThe short interest report is out for the July 31 settlement date and 247 Wall St. is focusing on the active short selling in the biotech sector. Short sellers are often active in biotech…