Target Hires New CEO From Pepsi — Why Did He Leave?
Target, desperate due to falling sales and a data breach that exposed personal information from tens of millions customers, hired a PepsiCo executive to be its new CEO.
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Newest first · Page 2083 of World’s Leading Smartphone Vendors Are Now Chinese
The reasons for Apple and Samsung to look over their shoulders in the smartphone business have increased as their product lines have aged. Now, three of the world's top smartphone vendors are Chinese.
Amazon Offers Local In-Home Services
Buy something from Amazon.com and need help setting it up, installing it or just making it work at home? The world's largest e-commerce company will arrange to send an expert.
Will an American Finally Reclaim the U.S. Open Title?
ThinkstockThe US Tennis Open, the single biggest tennis tournament to hit American soil each year at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City, will be underway in less than four weeks. The US Open…
S&P Announcement As Argentina Rating Slashed On Pending Default
(July, 2011) Standard and Poor's State Credit Rating, Provided by The Tax FoundationAs far as S&P is concerned, holders of Argentina’s sovereign paper may as well burn it The press release: RATING ACTION On…
GE, Synchrony Financial Lower Sights for Thursday IPO
General Electric Co. and Synchrony FinancialGeneral Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) spinoff Synchrony Financial priced its initial public offering of 125 million shares at $23 at the bottom of the expected range of $23 to…
Whole Foods’ Guidance Cut Takes an Ax to the Stock Price
courtesy of Whole Foods MarketWhole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) reported third-quarter 2014 results after markets closed Wednesday evening. For the quarter, the high-ticket grocery store chain posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS)…
Yelp Pulls a Twitter – Profits Instead of Losses!
ThinkstockYelp, Inc. (NYSE: YELP) was trading higher ahead of earnings, likely feeling some of the joy from the Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and Facebook earnings. Still, an 8.8% gain to $75.60 ahead of earnings…
Today’s 52-Week Low Club
ThinkstockJuly 30, 2014: Stocks making new 52-week lows today included the following four firms. Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) shares fell to a new post-IPO low of $23.00 after reporting earnings on Tuesday that…
The 4 Stocks That Held Back the Dow
thinkstockJuly 29, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday after a very solid first estimate on second quarter GDP and some strong earnings reports. The FOMC announcement continued the tapering but had nothing to say…
Is a $1.3 Billion Fine for BofA Getting Off Cheap?
A sum of nearly $1.3 billion in a government fine would put most businesses out of business. However, if your corporate name is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) or one of the other…
Back-to-School Season Isn’t What It Used to Be
ThinkstockThe back-to-school shopping season is traditionally second only to the end-of-the-year holiday season for retail sales. Sales could reach $84 billion — not really close to the nearly $600 billion for the holiday season,…
Janet Yellen and FOMC Verdict on Tapering, Quantitative Easing, Rate Hikes
Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve have released their statement for the July 29 to 30 FOMC meeting. As expected, we got more tapering of the monthly bond buying and we had no formal…
Earnings and Value Duel for Exxon, Chevron and ConocoPhillips
This week is the apex of earnings season, and we have the big three oil giants on deck to report: Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips.
Dear NQ, How Real Is Bison Capital?
NQ Mobile announced that it has received a non-binding proposal from Bison Capital to acquire all of NQ’s outstanding shares in an all-cash deal.