Mattress Firm Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: MFRM), known to many as the nation’s largest specialty mattress dealer, announced its preliminary fiscal third quarter financial results. More importantly, the company announced that it will be acquiring…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Standard Bank PLC with a failure to disclose certain payments in connection with debt issued by the Government of Tanzania in 2013. This London-based bank acted…
November 30, 2015: Here are four stocks trading with heavy volume among 55 equities making new 52-week lows today. Vale SA (NYSE: VALE) posted a new low on Monday. Shares dropped about 7.6% to…
November 30, 2015: Markets opened higher on Monday but the upbeat start to the day didn’t last long. Industrials and consumer discretionary stocks weighed most heavily on equity indexes today, with energy and tech…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its preliminary report on October farm prices Monday afternoon. The prices-received index declined 8 percentage points month-over-month to 89, with the crop production index dropped 8 points…
A week ago the forecast for the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States was $1.99, the lowest price for gas at any time in more than six years.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced insider trading charges against a former Goldman Sachs employee who stands accused of stealing nonpublic information in the firm’s e-mail system. The agency claims that he…
The latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey shows that overall Texas regional factory activity increased for the second consecutive month after exhibiting weakness in the first three quarters.
Target's website and e-commerce platform is taking on a huge number of customers, but this huge influx of consumers crashed the site for some time on Cyber Monday.
Nordstrom has been paying careful attention to its online business, particularly its off-price Nordstrom Rack and HauteLook businesses, and that has started paying off for the upscale retailer.