This Year’s Most Expensive NFL Tickets
thinkstockWith only eight home games for a team in a season, NFL tickets tend to be the most expensive on average. After the 2014 NFL schedule was released, tickets started flooding onto the…
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ThinkstockDrunk driving deaths fell by 23% between 2002 and 2012. But for much of the United States, drunk driving is still a problem. According to a report by the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility,…
The 4 Stocks That Chilled the Markets
thinkstockApril 25, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday following weak quarterly reports from some heavily followed stocks. The tech stocks were particularly hard hit as some of the momentum plays were headed south today.…
Weekend Box Office: Can ‘The Other Woman’ Dethrone ‘Captain America’?
21st Century Fox Inc.“Captain America: The Winger Soldier” has topped the box office charts for the past two weeks and has hauled in some $207 million for Buena Vista studios and parent Walt Disney…
Amazon Down 10%
Wikimedia CommonsWhen a stock is valued at 72 times forward earnings, it is a pretty safe bet that investors are looking at a growth play. When the same stock has been publicly traded for…
Now That Microsoft Has a Handset Business, What Does It Do With It?
Now that Nokia has unloaded its unprofitable mobile handset business on Microsoft the question is how does Microsoft make it profitable? What did Microsoft get for its $7.52 billion?
Consumer Sentiment at Nine-Month High in April
ThinkstockThe final April reading on the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rose to 84.1, near its highest reading since 2007. A survey of economists by Bloomberg had a consensus estimate for a…
Google Looks at Wi-Fi for Fiber Cities
An exclusive report at Computerworld claims that Google is considering building out Wi-Fi networks in the cities and towns where it is deploying its high-speed Google Fiber Internet service.
Visa Blames Strong Greenback, Russia for Weak Growth
After reporting earnings after markets closed on Thursday, Visa held its conference call to add some color to its rather boring second-quarter results.
Plug Power Sinks on Secondary Offering
Fuel cell product maker Plug Power priced an underwritten secondary stock offering of 22.6 million shares at $5.50 Friday morning. Shares opened at $5.62 Friday, down 6.5% from Thursday's close.
Five Big Internet Companies Targeting Rich TV Ad Budgets
Amazon.com Inc.The Internet continues to grow at a breathtaking rate. And it is slowly, but surely changing the way many standard entertainment and advertising are viewed and consumed by the consumer. The analysts at…
Can Airline Stocks Keep Investor Interest After Earnings?
courtesy of American AirlinesInvestors like the airlines. First-quarter results, for the most part, were strong, and the stocks are mostly higher for the year. All are up quite a bit from lows seen in…
Three Stocks That May Get Government Money to Supply the Internet
ThinkstockMost of us are so accustomed to having the Internet around and on 24/7, that we hardly give it a second thought. From the connection in our home to the Wi-Fi in the Starbucks…
Ford Earnings Weak Around the World
Ford reported mixed first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Friday morning. Operating margins in North and South America fell, but Ford's market share in China improved.
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, Broadcom, SunPower and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street for Friday, April 25, 2014. They include Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, Broadcom and SunPower.