Have Investors Had Enough of Jeff Bezos Walmarting Business?
Amazon.com has been one of the greatest growth stories of the current generation. The problem is that all of this growth just hasn't ever equated to significant profits.
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Newest first · Page 214GM Recalls Have Been Good for Sales
courtesy of General MotorsIt is almost counterintuitive: a company recalls more than 28 million vehicles — more than all car companies in the world will sell in either the United States or China in…
‘The Expendables 3’ Leaked Online, Downloaded 200,000 Times
ThinkstockAccording to several media reports, upcoming movie “The Expendables 3” has been “leaked” online and downloaded by at least 200,000 people using file sharing system BitTorrent. The movie’s production company, Nu Image, sued those…
Detroit Allows Outsiders to Pay Past Due Water Bills
ThinkstockA Detroit resident with a past due water bill, facing a shut off of H2O, now has a chance for help. Someone other than himself can pay his water bill. As of Sunday morning,…
U.S. Second-Quarter GDP Watch in the Week Ahead
ThinkstockWhile all eyes will be on the upcoming July unemployment and payrolls on Friday, August 1, the other big economic report during the week will of course be second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP). We would…
GM Recalls Damage Used Car Value
Millions of car owners will get hit in the pocket book because of GM recalls and there is nothing they can do about it.
Can National Bank of Greece and Bank of Ireland Recover?
thinkstockThe woes of Europe are supposed to be abating, at least somewhat. That is certainly supposed to be the case in the lands of the PIIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. Ireland…
6 Analyst Stocks Under $10 With Strong Upside Potential
ThinkstockStocks ended this last week on a very rough note, but we also saw yet another new high in stocks earlier in the week as well. This bull market feels as though it is…
High-Profile Tech Executives Set the Pace for Insider Stock Selling This Week
We screen the lists of insider selling each week at 24/7 Wall Street, and look for the high-profile names that some of our readers may own in their portfolios.
Key Stocks Seeing Insider Buying This Week
ThinkstockAs usual, when the earnings reporting window is open for companies, often the window for insiders to buy and sell stock opens up as well. With well over half of the S&P 500 companies…
IPO Week Ahead: GE Spins Out Synchrony in a Whirl of 22 IPOs
ThinkstockWe have counted 22 initial public offerings (IPOs) on the schedule for this week, including just two holdovers from last week. Of the dozen companies that actually made it to the markets last week,…
RadioShack Could Be Delisted From NYSE
RadioShack's stock has traded below $1 so long that it has received notice from the New York Stock Exchange that its shares may be delisted. The notice likely will cause investors to drive the…
Americans Overpay $44 Billion for Brand Name Products
Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive live off the consumer appetite for branded products. It turns out that this appetite costs these consumers an additional $44 billion a year.
The 4 Stocks That Tanked the Market
thinkstockJuly 25, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday as the markets come to grips with some weak earnings forecast for the current quarter. Only the basic materials sector managed to avoid a downturn. The…
Fire Phone Launch Fails to Stop Amazon Stock Price Bleeding
When Amazon.com reported second-quarter earnings after the markets closed Thursday, the first highlight it listed for its just-ended quarter was its introduction of the Fire phone.