ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 13 defense contracts in its Monday evening announcement of contract awards. The total value of contracts awarded was $583.4 million. But one single company, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), claimed…
Caterpillar has had a much better performance for its investors in 2014 than the pundits might have guessed. In fact, shares were up about 17.5% prior to Tuesday.
Staples must have forgotten how to tell people they have an "Easy Button." The office supplies leader is out with yet another dismal earnings report. Will Staples ever have a decent earnings report again?
It is no secret that the expansion of Target into Canada has been less than a rousing success. The company lost nearly $1 billion in its first year of operations north of the border.
ThinkstockNow that gold has pulled back from a peak of around $1,900 per ounce to less than $1,300 per ounce, many of the gold bugs have disappeared. What is interesting is that the actual…
ThinkstockThe grinding sell-off that started with biotech, moved to momentum stocks and ended up with solid big cap technology stocks has given investors a very solid entry point to some of the top stocks…
Not only are Comcast and Time Warner Cable the worst providers of both cable TV and Internet service, the two industries in which these companies operate are the most hated by American consumers.
A new report from Deutsche Bank points out a pullback in monetary policy is a near-term negative. The firm does however, have five top bank stocks to buy now that it remains very positive…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Tuesday, May 20, 2014. They include Carnival, Devon Energy, J.C. Penney, Netflix, Iridium and Dow Chemical.
Home Depot reported mixed first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Tuesday morning, citing a slow start to the spring selling season. Shares were down in premarket trading.
ThinkstockThere is no doubt that the ongoing drought has hit California’s Central Valley hard. A new study by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences suggests that it could cost the agriculture industry there…
Twitter remains more than difficult for most investors to value using traditional earnings and revenue metrics. And millions upon millions of shares under the IPO lock-up having been freed.
7-Eleven Inc.From a single location in Texas in 1927, the 7-Eleven empire has grown to more than 52,000 stores in 15 countries. Those stores are no longer owned by a U.S. company but by…
A recent Bloomberg poll suggests that most Target customers are willing to forgive the massive data breach that came to light over this past holiday season.
ThinkstockDemand for gold jewelry in the first quarter reached its highest level since the initial quarter of 2005, as price drops and demand in China spurred the increase. Much of this was attributed to…