ThinkstockA stalled French economy continues to bleed jobs as another 45,100 job seekers joined the nearly 3.1 million French citizens already looking for work in October. The total number of unemployed French workers now…
thinkstockThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said this morning that net farm income in the U.S. would fall 3.3% in 2012, to $114 billion from 2011’s record high net income of $116 billion. Net…
ThinkstockIn a ruling that should really be no big surprise, Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc. (NASDAQ: DNKN) has lost its bid with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the phrase “Best Coffee in…
ThinkstockOver the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend, U.S. consumers spent about a third of their gift-giving budgets on consumer electronics gadgets, second only to clothes buying as a percentage of spending. That number comes from…
ThinkstockSteelmaker and recycler Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. (NASDAQ: SCHN) said today that it expects net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013 ending this month to be breakeven before taking a pretax restructuring…
ThinkstockShares of Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: CDTI) are up sharply this morning following verification of the company’s Purifilter emissions reduction system for diesel engines by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Shares have nearly…
ThinkstockThe iOS operating system from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reclaimed the lead in the U.S. smartphone sales race, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel. In the 12 weeks ending on October…
ThinkstockThe S&P/Case-Shiller home price index for September was higher for the sixth consecutive month. The 20-city composite rose 0.3% in September, lower than the consensus expectation for a rise of 0.4% and below the…
ThinkstockIn an announcement of its annual investor conference today, Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) said that it expects the retail market for LCD TV sets and other consumer electronics devices to improve in the current…
courtesy ConAgra Foods Inc.In September of 2011, ConAgra Foods Inc. (NYSE: CAG) withdrew its $5.2 billion bid to acquire packaged foods competitor Ralcorp Holdings Co. (NYSE: RAH). This morning the companies announced a definitive…
ThinkstockThe ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) reported fourth-quarter and full fiscal year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. Quarterly adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) totaled $0.43 and revenues came in at $812 million.…
ThinkstockAs hard as retailers, both online and in the real world, compete for sales over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, so to do online and research firms compete to see which can report sales…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning as traders and investors return from a long holiday weekend. In Asia, the Bank of Japan released minutes of its last meeting, which included a discussion of…
courtesy Facebook Inc.Last week Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) announced some changes to its policies on how the social network will use all the data it collects about its 1 billion users. In general, Facebook…
courtesy of AppleThere’s an old joke about banjos: What’s the difference between a banjo and a Harley? Answer: You can tune a Harley. As far as the iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and…
Wikimedia CommonsIn an apparent mix-up at PRWeb.com, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was said to have acquired WiFi hotspot provider ICOA Inc. for $400 million. The CFO of ICOA has now denied that the acquisition…
thinkstock In yet another effort by the Obama administration to put pressure on Republican Party opponents to negotiate a solution to the coming fiscal cliff, the White House today released a report called “The…
ThinkstockThe education division of The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (NYSE: MHP) has been sold to subsidiaries of Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE: APO) for $2.5 billion the company announced this morning. The publishing house said…
ThinkstockIn an announcement for its annual investor conference tomorrow, UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) reaffirmed its earnings per share (EPS) forecast for 2012 at $5.20 to $5.25. But in its first estimate of fiscal…
ThinkstockIn a snap election announced just a few weeks ago, voters in the Spanish region of Catalonia have given a clear majority of votes to parties seeking referendum on independence from Spain. The movement…