ThinkstockDean Foods Co. (NYSE: DF) is among the food companies under post-earnings pressure this week. This company has been a long-time turnaround stock, yet the company just keeps having a hard time turning the…
ThinkstockUpdate: Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) announced Thursday morning that it has launched a new, lower-cost plan for its Verizon Wireless customers. The new plan, called MORE Everything, increases customers’ monthly data allowances and…
Courtesy Facebook Inc.Social media giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has posted an all-time high share price in the early afternoon on Thursday and it’s a little difficult to figure out why. There’s no news…
ThinkstockFollowing last Monday’s implosion at Boardwalk Pipeline Partners L.P. (NYSE: BWP), there have been questions raised about the entire pipeline MLP sector and, especially, investors want to know which one could be next. There…
After years of poor financial results and scandals under former CEO Andrea Jung, new Avon Products chief executive Sheri McCoy promised a turnaround. It is now clear that she has failed.
Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin has been facing its own identity crisis of late, and its future is back to looking very uncertain. After MtGox suspended withdrawals and after widespread reports of Bitcoin attacks, news from around…
Melco Crown Entertainment, one of Macau's biggest casino operators, said profit doubled in the fourth quarter, thanks to its ability to attract so-called premium mass market gamblers.
It had to happen. Verizon Communications announced Thursday morning that it has launched a new, lower-cost plan for its Verizon Wireless customers. A price war is well and truly being fought among the four…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks decreased by 237 billion cubic feet for the week ending February 7, compared with an expected drop of 228 billion…
With top biotechnology and health care companies from around the world attending the Leerink Global Healthcare, it is a good chance for investors to get timely updates on the top stocks and their prospects…
Angie's List is proving the point we made long ago that it was a company that never really seemed like it needed to be public. Despite a 15% earnings gain, shares are getting crushed…
General Motors has issued a recall notice for nearly 780,000 compact cars following 22 reported crashes in which six people died when the cars' airbags failed to inflate. The cars involved are Chevrolet Cobalt…
Rumors have floated of the possibility of a merger between DirecTV and DISH Network on and off for some time. The Comcast acquisition of Time Warner Cable is bound to create buzz out there…
J.C. Penney announced Thursday morning that CFO Ken Hannah is leaving the company and will be replaced by Ed Record, who has 25 years of retail management experience, most recently as COO at Stage…
PepsiCo reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 earnings before markets opened Thursday morning and also hiked its dividend. Shares were down fractionally in premarket trading.