ThinkstockNational Oilwell Varco Inc. (NYSE: NOV) has not just raised its dividend. It has massively raised it. The leader in equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production operations has announced…
ThinkstockIf one stock was the craziest and zaniest of the alternative energy revolution in early 2014, it was none other than Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG). Investors and traders alike have been fighting almost…
Courtesy Toyota Motor Corp.What exactly is reliability in a car? Most ratings are based on owner surveys in the first few months or first year of ownership. With the average age of a U.S.…
Given the solid quarter delivered by Cisco, Oppenheimer analysts think that investors can expect the supply chain to respond favorably, especially the companies leveraged to cloud and hyperscale data center and networking.
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with yet another weekly jobless claims report, but this one was a much better-than-expected surprise. Weekly claims plummeted by 24,000 to 297,000 in the…
The Boeing Co.When its Flight 370 vanished in early March, Malaysia Airline System very likely knew that it was in for some rough times. The mystery of the plane’s disappearance adds drama to an…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department released its consumer inflation report on Thursday morning. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the key measurement of inflation at the retail level, and it is likely to be monitored…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday, May 15, 2014. They include Cisco Systems, Kinder Morgan, Rackspace, Twitter and L-3 Communications.
ThinkstockThe biotech meltdown that started in late February was an indiscriminate killer. The top mega-cap sector leaders were shot down in flames along with small cap names that have yet to make a dime.…
Walmart reported disappointing first-quarter 2015 results before markets opened Thursday morning due to severe weather in the United States.
courtesy of General MotorsLast year was a very good year for carmakers. They sold more cars — 82 million — than in any of the past five years, and sales are expected to reach…
A Chinese company will take the long shot that it can compete in a tablet market completely dominated by Apple and Samsung. New challenger Xiaomi has at least one advantage.
courtesy of ChryslerChrysler needs a spark to continue the extraordinary growth that began almost as soon as it emerged from Chapter 11 and began its relationship with Fiat. It has gotten that spark as…
ThinkstockThere were 40.7 million immigrants living in the United States in 2012. Of these, 11.7 million were “unauthorized.” That total is up from 19.8 million in 1990. Almost all immigrants live in 15 states,…
ThinkstockCisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) managed to beat earnings when it reported on Wednesday. The networking and communications equipment giant even represented that the quarter was a solid execution with new markets and technologies…