Before the markets opened Wednesday morning, Dollar Tree reported first-quarter fiscal 2015 results that were just okay and the company narrowed its guidance, but shares rose in premarket trading.
The most recent weekly jobless claims have been released by the U.S. Labor Department, and they show a big jump in the wrong direction. Jobless claims rose by a sharp 28,000 to 326,000 in…
Retailer Best Buy reported mixed first-quarter fiscal 2015 results before markets opened Thursday morning. Shares were down about 3.5% in premarket trading.
A new research report from Cowen cautions that progress on a cure for pancreatic cancer is slow, but steady. Drugs from three companies though have been favorably viewed by consultants.
A new report from the global equity strategy team at Credit Suisse maintains that the best defensive sector now is large cap pharmaceuticals. Here are their top large cap pharmaceuticals to buy now.
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday, May 22, 2014. They include CenturyLink, Facebook, Keurig Green Mountain, SodaStream and Sprint.
ThinkstockLow fees and free tools are no longer enough to satisfy self-directed investors who make their own investment decisions and use a brokerage firm primarily to execute their trades. The online investment tools that…
ThinkstockIf there needs to be any proof that obesity is an epidemic and probably the most serious threat to the health of the American population, one only has to turn to the results of…
For all the discussion about the bright future of online video advertising and subscriber-based premium video delivered over the Internet, Google's YouTube towers over all other video sites.
There is a perception among businesses and people that nothing kept online is secure anymore. A major cyberattack on Facebook would only serve to tremendously reinforce that.
ThinkstockWorld news does not always fully capture people’s level of happiness. Last year, Gallup found a majority of people in the world experienced positive emotions. Of course, in some countries and regions people were…
Credit: Lockheed MartinThere are Russians running around Crimea. Chinese warships are prowling the Pacific and doing doughnuts around the Indian Ocean. Drug cartels boast military-grade weapons in their arsenals in Mexico. And in Iraq, the…
ThinkstockActivision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) has seen its shares perform rather well during the latest video game console upgrade cycle. That performance has become good enough that the company announced that Vivendi S.A. will…
Thinkstock After 40 years of allowing customers to “Have It Your Way,” Burger King Worldwide (NYSE: BKW) wants you to know it identifies with self-expression and individualism, so now it’s OK to “Be Your Way.” Online ads…
thinkstockMay 21, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday and again there was no economic news of note today, except the release of the rather ho-hum FOMC minutes. After two days of losses, equities were…