ThinkstockA stronger U.S. economy and a growing demand for employees are being joined by another trend according to the latest survey from Mercer. Pay raises are getting larger, if only modestly. Mercer, a subsidiary…
ThinkstockBarrick Gold Corporation (NYSE: ABX) was added to the prized Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs on Friday. While the rating was already a “Buy” with a $21 price target, the price target was…
The last economic report for Friday was the Wholesale Inventories reading for June. It turns out that inventories rose by only 0.3% for the month. Bloomberg and Dow Jones both had the consensus estimate…
courtesy of Lululemon Athletica Correction: In an earlier version of this article the author wrote that Lululemon founder, Chip Wilson, suggested, “some women’s bodies just don’t work” for Lululemon pants and this led to…
No one knows more about a workplace than its employees. Employee opinions reflect basic measures, such as pay, perks, benefits, and hours worked. But they are also influenced by factors such as a company’s…
ThinkstockEconomists and market watchers want to know if labor costs are truly rising or not. After all, there has been very mixed data. Now a report on second quarter non-farm productivity and unit labor costs…
Wikimedia CommonsSame-store sales for McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) could have been worse in July but it’s really hard to see how. The company reported Friday morning that U.S. same-store sales fell 3.2% compared with…
Jon OggStocks turned green on Friday morning on hopes out of Russia, but the markets have remained at risk. Now that investors have an opportunity to look for stocks that have pulled back, 24/7…
Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Samsung Electronics have announced an event for August 20th in New York at which the companies are expected to introduce a Samsung-built Nook. The…
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.Samsung Electronic has filed a document with the trial court citing a recent ruling from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that the court’s decision released in May that the…
ThinkstockWhile technology has been the top sector by far this year, the industrials as a whole have lagged the market dramatically. Most of Wall Street remains very positive about the balance of 2014 and…
DARPA’s official announcement about new chip which mirrors some function of human brain: DARPA-funded researchers have developed one of the world’s largest and most complex computer chips ever produced—one whose architecture is inspired by the…
General Customs Administration reported today. Reuters said: Exports in July jumped 14.5 percent from a year earlier – the fastest pace in 15 months, the General Administration of Customs said on Friday, doubling from…
Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) may be losing its chance to operate as an independent company. All of the metrics that would show Zynga might make even desperate progress were missing in its latest quarterly report. In…
Rupert Murdoch needs to only make one call to land another huge multimedia company. Sumner Redstone, Viacom's founder and executive chairman, owns 79% of the Class A common shares.