If Wall Street believed that Amazon.com had a surge in holiday sales, that optimism did not correlate with the stock price. Or it could have been that the high end of Amazon's fourth-quarter forecast…
The chance that smartphone sales would decrease after years in which the devices had taken the place of PCs among tens of millions of consumers worldwide was considered low. However, the process has already…
Intel announced it would lay off just over 5,000 people between now and the end of the year. The number is about 5% of its workforce. But Intel insists the action is not a…
New General Motors CEO Mary Barra will get a base salary of $1.6 million. She can make about three times that in total bonuses and other compensation, according to a filing with the SEC.…
Jon Ogg in NYCThe stock markets were mixed most of the trading day on Friday. A gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was masked because the gains were tied to only two of…
ThinkstockThe vast majority of working Americans spend their time at one job, but that isn’t the case for everyone. In 2012, roughly 5% of the U.S. working population held more than one job at…
ThinkstockIf you were to ask investor to name a high-flying stock, Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) probably wouldn’t come to mind. But the shares are up more than 8 percent in January. Alcoa’s performance since…
Courtesy of BlackBerryBlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY) just keeps continuing to amaze on the upside. It was not that long ago that it was hitting 52-week lows under $5.50, and on Friday the stock has…
Twitter has seen a wild ride since its initial public offering. It has likely made investors some small fortunes, and has likely cost some short sellers a fortune (or two) as well.
The Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover report for November showed that job openings in America had reached 4 million, nearly a six-year high.
The holiday season brought little joy to United Parcel Service. The package shipping company warned Friday that huge demand for late holiday shipping will cut fourth-quarter earnings below Wall Street estimates.
A weak forecast from GameStop took down the entire video game sector. But now we have a conflicting report from NPD Group indicating that sales were better industry-wide.
FuelCell Energy has joined the ranks of small cap alternative energy players raising fresh operating capital. The company announced an offering on Thursday evening and the offering priced on Friday.
One thing is for sure as the new year in trading has started to unfold. We have not met a firm on Wall Street that does not like technology for 2014. For once, maybe…
As we have looked through research from the firms that we cover on Wall Street, we find that almost everybody expects a pullback. None that we have seen could be as large as the…