ThinkstockBarron’s suggested this week that the recovery in the housing market could spell trouble for restaurant stocks going forward. But there seem to be two theories on what could happen. Investors seem to feel…
Bank of America has joined the banking ranks with its fourth-quarter earnings report. The stock was already about 2% within its 52-week highs, and now it appears to breaking above those highs after the…
While Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Beijing to meet Chairman Xi Guohua of China Mobile, the latter company announced that preorders for the iPhone have reached about 1 million units.
While the developed economies of the world will stage improvements this year, and the growth of the developing world will accelerate sharply, the United States is the key to a strong global recovery in…
Ford topped the Polk Automotive Loyalty Awards for 2013 models. It is a testament to the strength of the turnaround started by CEO Alan Mulally as Ford struggled through the recession and into 2013.
ThinkstockIn 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted more than 270,000 patents, often to the same organizations. The USPTO awarded 76,850 patents to the top 50 companies alone. IBM received 6,809 patents…
ThinkstockGeneral Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) just couldn’t take being a serious dividend laggard any longer. Now that rival Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) raised its dividend by 25%, GM decided that it was time…
courtesy of 3D Systems Inc.3D printing is supposed to be the next big thing. We have noted earlier that it has been called the next bubble by some investors. Unfortunately, two 3D printing outfits…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe stock gods decided to buy the dip on Tuesday, a day after the biggest sell-off in about three months. Despite a lack of market-moving economic reports, the losses of…
Wikimedia Commons/creative commonsIf you have been tracking credit ratings of states and nations since before the recession, something today almost seems impossible to imagine. California’s credit ratings are on the mend. They are far…
ThinkstockVerizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) is on the winning end of an argument about Net Neutrality. A US appeals court has overturned certain aspects of the so-called Net Neutrality laws, which effectively required Internet…
ThinkstockJabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE: JBL) is in the unloved field of contract manufacturing, also known as electronic manufacturing services. This sector is not exactly exciting to investors, or at least that was the case…
The National Retail Federation (NRF) has now released the holiday numbers, and the naysayers were proven wrong despite some of the worst December weather in years.
Tesla Motors shares surged Tuesday despite news of a recall. Speaking at the Detroit Auto Show, the company telegraphed that deliveries were above estimates.
Alternative energy company Ocean Power Technologies was for all practical purposes gone and forgotten about until 2013. Now comes news that has the stock surging.