Yahoo! FinanceThere are two ways to look at stock market corrections, with panic or opportunity. Of course an investor has every right to panic if the company they own faces permanent fundamental decline. Sometimes…
Wikimedia CommonsIn a sea of larger competition, J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) continues to battle to survive. A decade ago, at least its financial results were not continually eroding. J.C. Penney management has spent the…
ThinkstockFor the week ended Friday, July 31st, the spot price index for a pound of cannabis rose from $1,736 in the prior week to $1,791, a jump of slightly more than 3%. The futures…
ThinkstockThe Labor Department data which show that wages and benefits only grew .2% in the June quarter, served as a reminder of the struggle Americans have to make to simply keep pace with the…
ThinkstockIn the week ended July 31st, the number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. totaled 664 compared with 659 in the prior week and 1,573 a year ago. Including 210 other rigs…
ThinkstockJuly 31, 2015: Here are four stocks trading with heavy volume among the 107 equities making new 52-week lows today. Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) posted a new 52-week low on Friday. Shares dropped…
thinkstockJuly 31, 2015: Markets opened higher on Friday but only the Nasdaq Composite was able to trade in the green for the whole day. The blue chips were hampered by poor earnings at the…
ThinkstockTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA) may have just proved how financially fit and capable the company is. On Friday afternoon the global generic drug giant reported that it has secured financing of $33.75…
ThinkstockCarmakers will report July 2015 sales of new light vehicles on Monday, and analysts are expecting monthly sales in the neighborhood of 1.47 million units and a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 17.1 million…
ThinkstockWalter Energy Inc. (NYSE: WLT) filed a notice Friday morning that the New York Stock Exchange has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the NYSE’s intention to remove Walter Energy stock…
ThinkstockOcwen Financial Corp. (NYSE: OCN) is still fighting an uphill battle financially from the backdated foreclosure letters in 2014. The company still has not made a full recovery and shares are in fact still…
ThinkstockConsumer Sentiment got worse over the course of July rather than improved. The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment report was initially shown to be 93.3 in mid-July, but the final July figure ticked down…
ThinkstockWith Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve hoping and looking for any good news on higher prices and getting inflation back up to 2% or more, any aspect of pricing is being looked at…
ThinkstockGlobal Blood Therapeutics Inc. filed an amended S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its initial public offering (IPO). The expected price range is anticipated to be $16 to $18…
ThinkstockFor the most part, unless you were way over-weighted to energy, large cap and mega cap stocks did reasonably well for investors this year. At the end of 2014 Savita Subramanian and her top…