The most recent National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index listed the most affordable U.S. housing markets. Many of them would seem to be attractive, if they were not so economically broken.
Initial public offerings appear to be off to a strong start this year. 24/7 Wall St. has reviewed the field and compiled a list of the most widely followed IPOs this year. These are…
Ford must have a great deal of trouble selling its inventory of 2014 Fusions. The automaker has started to offer among the most aggressive incentive packages in the industry so far this year.
Drive in the oil-rich nations of the Middle East to avoid accidents. But avoid Central Africa, where accident rates are high. So says a new report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reported fiscal first-quarter results after markets closed Thursday evening. For the quarter the hardware maker reported adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.90 and $28.2 billion in…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) managed to rise ahead of earnings on Thursday, a harbinger that investors did not seem panicky about the report. Now we know what the daily deals and…
thinkstockFebruary 20, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday although techs got off to a slow start. Inventory data on oil and natural gas sent futures prices for both down slightly on the day. The…
ThinkstockThe talk on Thursday was on a report that Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) might like to buy Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) to boost its presence in computer networking. The German business magazine Manager…
Advanced Micro Devices has a proposed $500 million senior note offering, which will effectively finance a tender of other notes coming due. The ratings agencies have chimed in with mixed views.
Gap announced Thursday it will boost the minimum wage for its employees to $9 an hour in June and $10 in June 2015. Are they crazy? Not really. It may only add modestly to…
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 1 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 362.3 million barrels.
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app. In short, this is just a revamped ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and other chat services offered by Google, Yahoo! and even Facebook itself.
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks decreased by 250 billion cubic feet for the week ending February 14. That compared with an expected drop of 248…
If a service like WhatsApp, which posted revenues of a whopping $20 million last year, is worth $19 billion to Facebook, BlackBerry has to be worth, well, more than that to someone. Right?
Despite last year's sequester and numerous walls of worry to climb, the defense and aerospace stocks have shined. In a new research report, UBS suggests that most of the money has been made.