ThinkstockThe most conservative Americans live in the Plains States and the South, which probably comes as no surprise. And the liberals tend to live in the Northeast and on the West Coast, not surprising…
With a huge price surge driven in part by strong results from Facebook, the market value of Twitter has pressed above those of Target, the nation's second largest retailer, and CBS, one of America's…
Wikimedia CommonsLarry and Sergey are out with fourth quarter earnings for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). perhaps the news reports of the sale of the Motorola unit this week should have been a tell that…
ThinkstockJeff Bezos and crew at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) are out with fourth quarter earnings for the online seller of everything. Wall Street has not penalized the company for operating on extremely low margins…
thinkstockJanuary 30, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday led by solid earnings reports from some heavy-hitters and a weakening of the Japanese yen. This morning’s advance estimate for fourth-quarter GDP growth was higher than…
ThinkstockChinese New Year is starting, and the good news — and hard to believe news — is that this could help to fend off the waves of emerging market madness we have been seeing…
ThinkstockIn 2013, investors bought more than 156,000 homes, only to fix them up and quickly resell them for an average profit of $58,081. Home flipping became increasingly popular as the housing market began to…
Coffee-house giant Starbucks has a new chief operating officer. The question that investors and company fans should be asking is if Howard Schultz is thinking about stepping aside as CEO any time soon.
ADT is getting absolutely crushed after its earnings missed expectations. The home security leader said that customer growth fell short of plan. Shares hit an all-time low on Thursday.
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks decreased by 230 billion cubic feet for the week ending January 24, compared with an expected drop of between 220…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department reported a surge in weekly jobless claims during the past week. Bloomberg had been calling for almost no change at 327,000, but the rate rose by 19,000 to 348,000. Last…
QEP Resources announced Thursday morning that the company has added two new members to its board of directors, is preparing to file documents with the SEC to separate its midstream business from the rest…
Shares of Exxon Mobil reacted to its fourth-quarter earnings report early Thursday. Earnings were down 16%, mostly due to lower production and weaker-than-expected margins in its refining operations.
United Parcel Service reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Thursday. UPS said it delivered 20 million packages per day during the fourth quarter.
Peabody Energy reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Thursday. The coal producer said it expects and increase in demand for 2014.