courtesy of TwitterTwitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is out with earnings, and the numbers look very impressive on the surface. The problem is that there are some serious caveats for growth ahead and user metrics.…
thinkstockFebruary 5, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday following the report from ADP that nonfarm payrolls had risen less than expected in January. And unlike yesterday, the Japanese yen gathered strength early in the…
ThinkstockThe athlete IPO talk is back. In fact, they may be back in business. Two issues are driving the chatter here, and it is not that the Super Bowl was a crowd killer. News…
Investors have become a bit nervous after a poor January and a rough start to January. Stocks have gone south, and bond yields have come back down from a peak of 3% on the…
ThinkstockIt’s a good thing that the month of January typically accounts for just 20% of most retailers’ fourth quarter sales. This January has been a particularly harsh one, at least as far as the…
ThinkstockA news break is out from multiple sources, showing that CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) will produce a full slate of 16 NFL games. The problem is that this is the Thursday Night Football package.…
The economy continues to add jobs, the ADP National Employment Index said Wednesday, just not a lot of them. The report also hints that ADP and others in payroll processing and the uniforms business…
ThinkstockGambling revenue growth on the Chinese island of Macau fell to its lowest level in 15 months in January, rising just 7% to $3.6 billion. The drop is attributed to slowing economic growth in…
Dow component 3M is confident enough about its future that it announced late Tuesday a new, open-ended $12 billion stock buyback plan. The announcement did not say how the buyback will be financed.
Twitter reports earnings on Wednesday after the close, and 24/7 Wall St. has prepared a preview looking at the trading history, analyst opinion, options expectations, valuations and more.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased and total gasoline inventories increased last week.
The two largest U.S. integrated oil companies, Exxon Mobil and Chevron, have now reported 2013 results, and neither one can claim to have made a very positive impression on investors. Is either a value…
3D Systems is joining the ranks of 3D printing companies lowering guidance. This guidance is not just bad for 2013, but 2014 as well.
Drug store operator and health benefits management company CVS Caremark said Wednesday morning that it would stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its 7,600 U.S. stores by October 1 of this year.
ThinkstockIt is one thing to be a sector caught up in an overall market sell-off. It is quite another when the fundamentals are reasonably good and the sector has been sold off already. Given…