Microsoft is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Thursday. This could be the most widely followed Microsoft report in years because Satya Nadella will be leading the call for the…
courtesy of Starbucks Corp.Coffee prices started spiking in late January, from less than $1.20 a pound to near $2.15 a pound today. Milk and sugar prices are also higher, and eventually this confluence will…
ThinkstockWith all the funny money printed and quantitative easing measures after the recession, it has been amazing that the cost of goods has not risen through the roof. In fact, it has baffled many…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 49 billion cubic feet for the week ending April 18, compared with an expected increase of around 42…
UPS reported first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday, and no surprise, winter weather was its theme of the day. And no surprise either that shares slipped after the opening bell.
When Qualcomm reported second-quarter results after markets closed on Wednesday, its share price dropped 4%. Investors continued to be cautious Thursday morning.
courtesy of philip morris internationalThe U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has come out and proposed to extend its tobacco authority to additional tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. What the public needs to know is…
Amazon.com is quietly taking aim at warehouse stores with a new service called Amazon Prime Pantry. Could it be that Amazon has come up with a solution to a nonexistent problem?
Facebook is seeing a surge in its shares the morning after earnings. Analysts have keyed in on Facebook, almost all with a positive bias.
Courtesy 3M Company3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) reported first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday. The conglomerate posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.79 on revenues of $7.8 billion. In the same period a…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with another weekly jobless claims reading. Weekly claims rose by 24,000 to 329,000 in the past week, and the prior week’s reading was revised…
Courtesy Caterpillar Inc.Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) reported first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday. For the quarter, the heavy equipment firm posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.61 on revenues of $13.24…
ThinkstockWere prior reports on durable goods kept lower due to weather? It seems so. The March durable goods report from the Department of Commerce came in at a headline reading of 2.6%. Bloomberg was…
n a new research report, the analysts at Credit Suisse point out the fact that larger cap gold equities began 2014 relatively expensive at a 12% net-asset-value implied gold price premium to spot gold.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wall Street on Thursday, April 24, 2014. They include Apple, Boeing, Ciena, Facebook, Goodyear and Xerox.