Juthinkstockly 17, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday following a weak report on U.S. housing starts offsetting a stronger-than-expected report on new claims for jobless benefits. The news of a Malaysian passenger jet being…
Wikimedia Commons (Lee-Sean Huang)Ahead of the company’s second quarter earnings report after the bell on Thursday, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) continued to dominate the search market with a 78% of a three-country market and…
ThinkstockInvestors and speculators often flock to the world biotech for emerging drugs of the future. It is no secret at all that the biotech sector is full of all sorts of risks, making and…
General Electric is set to report earnings in the very early hours of Friday morning. Why interpreting GE earnings and factoring in guidance could be much more difficult for the next few quarters.
Google is expected to report earnings after the close on Thursday. The first thing we would warn investors of is that this marks the first post-split and dual-class earnings report.
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) will report earnings on Thursday after the close. Big Blue may not be a growth story any longer, but it remains massive, and its high stock price…
We already know where the ax is going to fall most harshly in the 18,000 job cuts that Microsoft has announced -- Nokia. It did not say where the rest of the cuts would…
Advanced Micro Devices is set to report earnings after the close on Thursday. The AMD of yesteryear is very different from the AMD of today and tomorrow.
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 107 billion cubic feet for the week ending July 11, compared with an expected increase of around 100…
UBS is relatively positive on the homebuilding industry, but the analysts also have lowered the number of stocks rated Buy in their coverage to just four.
ThinkstockDid you remember the White House saying to short Russian stocks in recent months as tensions were mounting between Russia and Ukraine and over sanctions? Well, their timing was way off, but their message…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported Thursday morning that new housing starts in June slipped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 893,000, a decrease of 9.3%…
With credit levels still at historic lows, and earnings growth gaining traction, there may be some tremendous upside for investors. Merrill Lynch has raised its price targets on three top credit card stocks.
The U.S. Labor Department is out with its tally on weekly jobless claims, and the verdict is that it was great news. While other information is out that was not positive, the weekly jobless claims…
In a memo written last week, CEO Satya Nadella telegraphed staff cuts now that Microsoft had added some 25,000 new employees as part of the acquisition of the smartphone business from Nokia.