ThinkstockRackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) is due to report second-quarter results on Monday after the close of trading. After reporting first quarter earnings in May, Rackspace announced that it had hired Morgan Stanley to…
Microsoft Corp.In a press release issued at 3:01 a.m. Monday morning, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced the first — and quite possibly the last — mobile phone to bear the name of the Finnish…
ThinkstockAfter being absolutely rocked back in the spring, the biotech sector has bounced back smartly. Even a bubble comment from the head of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen didn’t stop the return of the biotechnology…
ThinkstockMannKind Corp. (NASDAQ: MNKD) was supposed to be in the news for its earnings report. Instead, we got news of its strategy on how to get its Afrezza inhalable insulin to the market. The…
Thinkstock Update: When Richard Kinder did not get the CEO job at Enron, he put together a deal to acquire Enron’s pipeline assets. The resulting company, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, was a master…
ThinkstockThe Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) reported second quarter 2014 results before markets opened Monday morning. The online travel and hotel reservation company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $12.51 on revenues…
Jon OggStocks were firm on Monday morning, looking to add to the recovery bounce from Friday. Investors have now been given an opportunity to look for stocks that have pulled back that perhaps they…
ThinkstockIt is hard to miss the recent advance in the stock markets. After a spike higher in 2013, the S&P 500 is up another 17% over the past year. However, many investors are unaware of…
ThinkstockGas prices have fallen so quickly that the average price for a gallon of regular is below $4 in every one of the Continental United States. This figure was barely imaginable several months ago,…
ThinkstockBuzzfeed, a company that has come to call itself a media operation instead of the social media distributor of clever lists, which it has been for several years, raised $50 million, according to primary…
The Walt Disney Co.Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has apparently decided that when the going gets tough, the company will play tougher. In what appears to be the company’s latest distribution dispute, Amazon has removed…
ThinkstockWe are now entering into mid-August and earnings season has seen its peak. While we are getting into the stragglers who report later than peers, there are also many key companies reporting earnings that have off-calendar…
ThinkstockAs we enter mid-August, the economic calendar still has some important reports on deck for the week ahead. 24/7 Wall St. has created a brief preview for the top economic events on deck this…
Volkswagen Group of AmericaVolkswagen AG issued a recall notice on Saturday for more than 189,000 Tiguan compact SUVs sold in the U.S. and Canada to fix an engine stalling problem. The recall follows by…
Thomson Airways Boeing 787 G-TUIB" by Björn from Niedersachsen /lower saxony - IMG_6739Uploaded by russavia. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsThe pilot of a 787 Dreamliner was forced to shut…