ThinkstockPolicymakers have the difficult task of generating adequate tax revenue without excessively hampering economic growth and employment. States can promote business in various ways, but the tax system is one of the key elements…
Virgin GalacticThe tragic explosion of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo over the southern California desert on Friday could perhaps have been avoided if the space tourism company had heeded warnings from senior aerospace engineers that the…
Automakers will report October U.S. sales on Monday, and the big gainer, once again, is expected to be Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
Here is a quick look at how the Oracle of Omaha’s top 10 holdings have performed recently.
Microsoft, once nearly orphaned by investors, has nearly touched its 52-week high. As a matter of fact, make that a 10-year high.
Old tech companies have reinvented themselves enough to nearly be new, and their old products are in vogue again.
Gasoline prices in the U.S. have not been this low since 2010, , and some analysts think prices could fall further.
Two IPOs have been postponed into the coming week and will accompany 11 scheduled first-time offerings as the month of November kicks off.
Insider sellers have been noticeably absent for most of the month of October. Nothing like a good old-fashioned stock market rally to get the sellers out from the shadows.
Insider buying isn’t always bullish, as sometimes investors are adding to positions that have gone down in price, but it usually signals things are on the right track at a company.
Will merchants and their alternative to Apple Pay prevail in their effort to throw off the yoke of credit card companies and their hated swipe fees?
People who want to have the world's fastest broadband connections should stay away from parts of the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
thinkstock.comFree high-end gym memberships for diplomats, a study that watched grass grow, and Swedish massages for rabbits are but some of the ways the government wastes taxpayer money, according to a new report by…
People in the largest cities in the United States cannot take much comfort in the fact that the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline has dropped below $3.
ThinkstockOctober 31, 2014: Here are four stocks among the 106 equities making new 52-week lows today. Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE: KGC) dropped nearly 17% today to post a new 52-week low of $2.07. The…