squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York is out with its March 2014 Empire State Manufacturing Survey. Monday’s report signaled that business conditions continued to improve for New York manufacturers, but…
ThinkstockJust one day after more than 90% of Crimea’s voters indicated their desire to join the Russian Federation, the region’s parliament has made a proposal to join the Federation as the Republic of Crimea.…
JA Solar Holdings reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Monday. The China-based solar panel maker reported growing gross margins and said it plans to expand its module manufacturing capacity.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Monday, March 17, 2014. The include Baker Hughes, Cameron, Cisco Systems, Facebook and VeriSign.
courtesy of FordThe film “Need for Speed” posted poor first weekend ticket sales of just $17.8 million, which was a disappointment given the huge public relations and marketing effort put into the release. “Need…
Microsoft has offered a large tier of pricing in the hopes of driving adoption of its Windows Office 365 software. The latest is the most radical departure from old prices. But the profit margins…
Google Drive has been considered overpriced, and thus not competitive, or at least not competitive on that single basis. So, Google has dropped the prices drastically. But has the decision has come too late?
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsElon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) wrote in a Friday post on the company’s official blog that if anyone believes that the state of New Jersey’s ban on…
couresty of Keurig Green MountainAfter markets closed on Friday, Standard & Poors announced several changes in its indexes. The big news in the announcement was the addition of Keurig Green Mountain Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR)…
ThinkstockThe People’s Bank of China on Saturday expanded the trading band on the price it fixes for renminbi. Beginning Monday, the currency trading band is being doubled, from 1% to 2% on either side…
Honda Motor Corp.Honda Motor Corp. (NYSE: HMC) plans to recall more than 886,000 Odyssey minivans manufactured in the company’s Alabama plant between 2005 and 2010. The cause of the recall is a defective part…
ThinkstockThis past week marked the fifth anniversary of the bottom of the market from March 2009. To celebrate those massive gains since then, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has now fallen five consecutive trading…
courtesy of Mike Kalasnik, via Wikimedia CommonsIt really did not take long for Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) to part with its Land’s End business since first floating the possibility last October. In December,…
ThinkstockSince the U.S. Department of Defense first created Arpanet, the Internet’s predecessor, in 1968, the U.S. has maintained control of the Internet’s IP numbering network, the domain name system (DNS), and the massive database…
ThinkstockOf five initial public offerings (IPOs) scheduled for next week, only two are pharmaceutical companies. That’s not the pattern we’ve been seeing so far in 2014, where drug companies lead in IPO numbers by…