ThinkstockWith both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new all-time highs this week, investors have to wonder how they should be positioning themselves for the rest of the year. Earnings…
A new subsidiary of China's Juneyao Airlines has placed an order for 50 of Boeing's 737 and 737 MAX aircraft. The total value of the order at list prices is at between $3.8 billion…
ThinkstockThe Producer Price Index (PPI) measures wholesale inflation, and the April readings are mostly in line with those from March. The headline PPI for final demand was up 0.6% in April, above the 0.2%…
ThinkstockSometimes despite good earnings and outlooks, great stocks get caught up in sell-offs like the one we experienced from late February through much of April. What started as biotech sell-off turned into an “anything…
Plug Power reported first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Wednesday morning. The net loss was greater than expected, but so were revenues. Shares fell in premarket trading.
thinkstockWhile Wall Street firms hold and attend conferences for everything imaginable, often a very telling metric for the conference is attendance. At the recent CleanTech conference attendance was up 70% year-over-year. The analysts at…
ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications Wednesday morning. It noted an increase of 3.6% in the group’s seasonally adjusted composite index, following a rise of 5.3% for the…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Wednesday, May 14, 2014. They include Akamai Technologies, Avago Technologies, Pandora Media and Randgold Resources.
ThinkstockFace it, we cannot live without water. The reality is that, on the supply side, the world is facing an insufficient supply of fresh water, the distribution channels are uneven, quality is vastly different…
ThinkstockCommodity metals are having a tough time lately. Investor enthusiasm for metals has fallen, and its only necessary look at the price of gold to see why. Equities are where investors want to be…
The results of the new J.D. Power Airline Satisfaction Survey were not a surprise. The two winners have been at the top of their categories for several years: Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways.
Google Glass has to be one of the most widely followed consumer electronics product launches since the first iPhones. After months of waiting, anyone can buy it, if Google has the product in stock.
Sony posted another annual loss, for the fiscal year that ended in March, and forecast another for the current year. The Japanese company has more loss-making units than profitable ones.
In one of the few tech M&A deals that was not leaked well ahead of the transaction, Yahoo! has bought mobile message app company Blink. Even Blink had little to offer in detail.
Advertisements and packaging increase consumer awareness of a product and provide information so that customers can make educated choices. Oftentimes, however, marketing strategies are focused more on raising sales than providing accurate product information…