America’s Fastest Growing Cities
ThinkstockThe U.S. population rose by just 0.72% in 2013, the lowest growth rate in more than 70 years. Not only has the country become less-attractive to immigrants than in years past, with net immigration…
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Newest first · Page 377Why Investors Are Welcoming the 58.com Secondary Offering
58.com sold 6 million American Depositary Shares Friday morning at a price of $38.00 apiece. The company sold 2 million shares and selling shareholders sold the rest.
Why the End of the NHTSA Probe May Not Help Tesla
Tesla Motors won a victory Friday when the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration closed a probe into two fires in its Model S. But the company faces other challenges.
McDonald’s Offers Free Coffee!
Taco Bell has rolled out a new breakfast menu. To fight back against this new threat, McDonald's is giving away free coffee during breakfast hours for two weeks beginning March 31.
Voxeljet Offering: Insiders Selling Out, Even After 60% Drop
Germany-based 3D printer maker Voxeljet reported fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday and, at the same time, registered another 4.25 million ADSs with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission.
CBS Outdoor IPO Arrives, CBS Arbitrage Ends
Wikimedia CommonsCBS Outdoor Americas Inc. (NYSE: CBSO), what has been the outdoor advertising subsidiary of CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) is now its own company — more or less. The company priced its initial public…
UBS Says These Five Top Tech Stocks Are Oversold
Wikimedia CommonsOne good thing about momentum corrections and sell-offs is they often give investors anxious to own some of the top names a far better entry point. While the market gyrations lately have not…
High Lime Prices Kill Celebrations
ThinkstockThere are at least two stories about the skyrocketing cost of limes: one is a poor harvest in Mexico, and the other is the mob. The growers and the government want you to believe…
BlackBerry Earnings Only Look Good Because They’re Not Awful
BlackBerry reported fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2014 earnings before markets opened Friday morning. Shares got a boost from the lower-than-expected losses.
Personal Income and Spending Rise Handily
ThinkstockWe now have the report for personal income and spending for the month of February. This data is now effectively a month old, so we were only expecting the news to move markets if…
Credit Suisse Sees These Six Stocks as Momentum Traps
courtesy of Pandora MediaMomentum stocks are the greatest things in the world when the market goes up like it did last year. There is always somebody willing to buy the stocks high under the…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Citi, Lululemon, Microsoft, Oracle, SolarCity and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Friday, March 28, 2014. They include Citigroup, Lululemon, Microsoft, Oracle and SolarCity.
Walmart Sues Visa — More Suits to Come
The world's largest retailer filed suit with the federal court in western Arkansas, claiming that credit card company Visa charged excessive card swipe fees. Is MasterCard next?
Will Falling Baidu and King IPO Drop Delay or Harm the Alibaba IPO?
ThinkstockWhen Chinese Internet company Alibaba announced it would hold an initial public offering, the betting in markets around the world was that the IPO would be the most valuable ever, with the market cap…
Walmart’s Biggest Problem
Local merchants and politicians have effectively blocked Walmart's expansion in many of America's largest cities, and that almost certainly not will change. Walmart has become hemmed in.