J.C. Penney’s 2% Turnaround Much Too Weak
J.C. Penney's CEO said the most difficult part of its turnaround is over. That is not true, and some of the retailer's most difficult days may be ahead. It has set painfully modest goals,…
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Newest first · Page 421Baidu’s Stunning 50% Revenue Growth, With More Growth Ahead
courtesy of BaiduBaidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is setting itself up to challenge new all-time highs after its quarterly earnings report. With how late this earnings report was compared to prior years, it seems somewhat…
J.C. Penney Earnings Raise Investors’ Animal Spirits — for Some Reason
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results after markets closed Wednesday afternoon. The venerable retailer reported an adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of…
Tesla Raising $1.6 Billion in Convertible Note Offering
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is going to the capital markets for a serious capital raise. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker is planning to raise $1.6 billion in a convertible senior…
Best Buy to Fire 2,000 Managers: Report
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) reports fourth-quarter and full-year results before markets open Thursday morning, but the company has reportedly already begun a cost-cutting program that could…
The 4 Stocks That Dominated the Market on Wednesday
thinkstockFebruary 26, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday and bounced off an early low on a strong report from the Census Bureau on new home sales — up 10% in January. The tech stocks…
Best Performing IPOs of 2014 Are in Biotech
ThinkstockThe initial public offering market has been rather strong in 2014. After we recently featured our Top 10 IPOs to Watch in 2014, we took a look at the batch of the many IPOs…
Is Forest Oil Doomed?
ThinkstockForest Oil Corp. (NYSE: FST) was trading on Wednesday as though it is going to implode. With a stock price of $2.05 after a 36.5% drop in one day, and with shares having hit…
Is Google Worth as Much as Exxon?
Wikimedia CommonsWe’re about to see another change near the top of the rankings of the most valuable publicly traded U.S. companies. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) looks secure for a while at number 1 with…
Why eBay Holders Win From Icahn, Even Icahn Fails to Win
courtesy of ebayThe war of words between eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) and activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn is heating up. eBay’s message in the headline was simply “Stick to the Facts, Carl.” When…
Boeing Black Smartphone: Secret, Secure, Self-Destructing(!)
ThinkstockThe Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has filed documents with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a smartphone it calls the Boeing Black and that the company is developing as a means of secure communication…
Can SodaStream Stage a Real Recovery Alone?
ThinkstockSodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA) is trading higher after the beverage machine maker’s earnings report. Oddly enough, the stock was having a very hard determining what it wanted to do when the earnings report…
Walmart Brings New Life to Fuel Cell Stocks
Shares of Plug Power were the beneficiary of news Wednesday that the fuel cell maker received an order from Walmart for its hydrogen fuel cells. The news also lifted shares of other fuel cell…
Could Hacking Cause the Next World War?
Nawaf Bitar, a senior vice-president at Juniper Networks, believes that cyberwar is an even bigger threat than is terrorism, and that a cyberattack that goes unchecked will lead to a real war.
The Death of the Gun Stocks, for Now
ThinkstockThe gun trade in stocks is over — at least for now. If you have followed the gun and ammunition demand in America over the past 15 months or so, you will know that there…