Family Dollar Store Inc.Employees can now share their opinions about employers online. As a result, companies face new reputation risks that can affect their customers and shareholders. For the third year, 24/7 Wall St. has identified…
When it comes to secondary market ticket for baseball, not every team plays up to their price. Yesterday, we took a look at which National League teams were worth the price of admission, and…
thinkstockJune 20, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday and investors took the DJIA to a new all-time high just shy of 17,000. The S&P 500 also posted a new all-time high as energy stocks…
courtesy of StarbucksIn March Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz said that the company had no plans to raise its prices. This morning the company announced that a grande or venti coffee would…
Wikimedia CommonsFor the past 20 years, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has been rating what it calls limited-service restaurants and the rest of us call fast-food restaurants. In every one of those 20…
Performance Sports Group was known as Bauer Performance Sports until three days ago. The newly named firm held its initial public offering Friday morning.
Top Apple suppliers are getting, and will continue to get, gigantic orders to produce components for the eagerly awaited iPhone 6. Skeptics who were writing off Apple a year ago may have a huge…
RadioShack shares traded under $1 on Friday. If you are a shareholder who is surprised about this, then about the only excuse would be is if your name is Rip Van Winkle.
When is bad news actually good news? If you're Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the answer is Thursday, after the markets closed and Oracle reported results that missed consensus estimates.
AvtoVAZSales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in Russia fell 12% year-over-year in May, and year-to-date sales are down 6%. And it is projected to get worse. Bo Andersson, CEO of…
Micron Technology is set to report earnings on Monday, June 23. The leader in DRAM almost certainly will have to give investors a "wow" factor with this report to keep the bulls happy.
In a letter to Family Dollar's CEO following a dinner meeting on Thursday evening, Icahn said that it is "apparent that we have a strong difference of opinion as to the future of our…
ThinkstockOne of the main concerns physicians have agreed upon in recent years has been the overuse of antibiotics by some health care professionals. Their overuse in some cases has led many of the major…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Friday, June 20, 2014. They include 3D Systems, BlackBerry, Coach, Oracle, Trina Solar and Kroger.
CarMax reported better-than-expected first-quarter fiscal 2015 results before markets opened Friday morning. CarMax shares were up more than 16% in premarket trading.