ThinkstockBy the end of 2013, the 13 largest pay TV providers had lost 105,000 video subscribers for the year. That marks the first year that pay TV posted an annual loss according to media…
courtesy of the Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve under Janet Yellen may not be that much different than the Fed under Ben Bernanke – not yet at any rate. In her first formal two-day FOMC…
courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) has managed what seems to be the impossible after Tuesday night’s earnings. The stock is back up to flat at $38.84. Its low Wednesday was $37.40, and the…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it owes about 919,000 U.S. taxpayers nearly $760 million in refunds for the 2010 tax year. To get what they are owed, all these taxpayers need…
When it comes to his stance on eBay, activist investor Carl Icahn might be starting to understand that his fight to remove board members and to get a spinoff of PayPal is becoming futile.
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) remains a great value company that creates great computing and electronics products. The problem is that Apple remains very unexciting, and whenever CEO Tim Cook makes news…
For its initial public offering Wednesday morning, Paylocity priced 7.05 million shares at $17, above the expected range of $14 to $16. Shares of the cloud-based software company traded as high as $31 before…
The FAA and Boeing released a joint critical systems review of Boeing's 787-8 Dreamliner Wednesday. It was in response to problems with the plane's electrical system and batteries that caused the entire fleet to…
Chevron CEO John Watson told a Houston audience earlier this month that crude oil costing $100 a barrel is becoming the new $20 in the industry, and the inference we might draw from that…
Shares of KB Home surged Wednesday after the homebuilder reported first-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened. It posted its first quarterly profit for the period since 2007, due to higher average selling prices.
courtesy of Facebook Inc.There is a debate among some analysts over whether Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is worth buying or may be turning into a sell. On Wednesday, J.P. Morgan analyst Douglas Anmuth reiterated…
ThinkstockFirst Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is hosting its analyst day on Wednesday. We previously noted three drivers behind its 9% gain earlier in the trading day. Now we have a release from First Solar…
Sprite.com/6mix-storyThe Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) may have Warren Buffett as a key investor and it may have just been named in a UBS top dividend list, but the company’s growth and its stockholder prospects…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 5.9 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 375.9…
First Solar is surging at the same time that the company is conducting its analyst meeting. There are three issues running the stock higher,and there are implications elsewhere to consider as well.