As the internet has developed over the past 15 years or so, a variety of business models have appeared — and some have disappeared. Revenue models are also different, running from advertising to subscription…
US consumers simply don’t believe that the US economy is recovering. That shouldn’t be surprising, considering that wages are stagnant, unemployment remains above 9%, and the prospects for the US economy are dim, if…
Investors appear to have lost faith in mining stocks, sending share prices down steadily throughout the year. Both iron ore and copper prices are down nearly 20% since the beginning of the month, and…
A year ago, shares of BP plc (NYSE: BP) closed near $41. Yesterday the shares closed near $42, about 15% below the stock’s 52-week high. When the company reported third quarter earnings last night,…
Stocks opened higher this morning, helped along by a host of merger announcements. Techs got boost when Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) said it would pay $1.5 billion for cloud-based customer service provider RightNow Technologies…
About a month and a half ago, we looked at several solar stocks to try to determine if there happened to be a good value play in the sector. Given the significant drop in…
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects to handle more than 260 million packages during the coming holiday season. That’s a 12% increase from a year ago, and to cope with the flood the company plans…
Some of the highest dividend yields from any sector come from tobacco stocks. That’s why a relatively weak report from one of the cigarette makers gives pause to investors looking for a safe place…
Excluding the impacts of absorbing its recent acquisition of Bucyrus International, Inc., Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) posted an all-time high in sales, revenue, and profits in the third quarter. Even with those impacts, Caterpillar…
A raft of good earnings reports pushed the markets higher at opening this morning, sending the Dow Industrials up about 200 points at mid-day. For some reason traders are hopeful that this weekend’s meeting…
The airlines industry is in a very bad way, unless you are a Wall Street analyst making upside predictions for a sector that Warren Buffett hates. High fuel costs and fewer passengers are simply…
The blossoming trade war with China has just been warmed-up a notch. Led by a German solar PV maker with operations in the US, seven US-based companies have filed a trade case with the…
While Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) and ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) haven’t been pursuing Australia’s Macarthur Coal Ltd. (OTC: MACDF) for more than a few months, the deal never really looked like it would get done.…
The market sure didn’t feel too great through much of the warning, but the day turned out a lot better than it was looking. Weekly jobless claims remained stubbornly above the 400,000 mark. The…
New car sales in September are estimated to have risen 19% year-over-year, though down -5.5% sequentially. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of new car sales is now set at about 12.9 million new cars.…
Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) reported third-quarter earnings this morning, and the company did a little better than analysts expected, but worries persist that the company will be hit hard by…
The headline number from Nokia Corp.’s (NYSE: NOK) third quarter earnings report is that sales fell by -13% year-over-year. But there were some positives as well. Instead of an expected EPS loss of $0.02,…
Stocks opened down this morning following the earnings report Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) after markets closed yesterday. Moody’s downgrade of Spain’s sovereign debt also weighed on the opening. The Consumer Price Index for urban consumers…
Following last year’s disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, oil drillers and field services companies watched their shares fall more than -20% in most cases as prospects for exploration and production dropped. Stock prices…
For the sixth straight quarter, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has posted record sales, partly due to a 22% increase in sales to PC makers. Does that indicate that the PC makers like Dell Inc.…