ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported Wednesday morning that new housing starts in February slipped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 907,000, a decrease of 0.2%…
GameStop shares were getting bruised on Tuesday on news that Walmart is directly targeting the GameStop model with a new push with its trade-in service and preowned game offerings. Can GameStop survive this challenge?
ThinkstockThe Labor Department has released its latest report on retail inflation via the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Prices in February were up 0.1% on the headline CPI. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, rose…
ThinkstockThe price of milk rose to an all-time high in Chicago on Monday. At $24.32 per hundredweight, the price of milk is up 35% since early December. And the increases are almost entirely due…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. They include Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Michael Kors, Oracle and Shutterfly.
ThinkstockAmerica may have recovered handily from the Great Recession, and the bull market may now be five years old, but in no way should America think that it is remotely immune or even insulated…
Hertz Global Holdings reported disappointing fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The company also announced the spin-off of its equipment rental business.
ThinkstockMedian income for Americans was $34,750 in 2012. At some companies, however, the median is more than five times the national number. Based on figures provided by Glassdoor, 24/7 Wall St. examined the highest-paying…
After years of trouble in Europe, General Motors has finally gotten some relief as sales of its cars and light truck rose in the region during February. It is better than the reverses GM…
General Motors announced new recalls of 1.5 million cars on Monday, including SUVs, vans and Cadillacs, for defective airbags, brake parts and other problems.That was dded to the 1.6 million small cars that GM…
As the age of video games ages, so do the number of discarded and unused video games, probably. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, means to take advantage of that via a video game trade-in…
thinkstockMarch 17, 2014: Markets opened higher on Monday very likely breathing a sigh of relief that the situation in Crimea did not turn into a military confrontation. There’s also a feeling that U.S. and…
JA Solar Holdings reported its first positive quarterly earnings in more than two years Monday morning to become the latest solar energy company to draw a line under the recovery of the solar photovoltaic…
Jon OggEarnings season has all but wound down, but some of the off-calendar quarterly earnings reports are still coming out. 24/7 Wall St. has tracked only six earnings of critical importance to watch this…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee has another meeting this week regarding U.S. interest rate policy. While no new rate announcement is expected to come, what is expected is the announcement of more…