Light Truck Sales to Top 10 Million in 2016
Sales of light trucks rose more than 7% in October and accounted for almost two-thirds of all vehicle sales in the United States.
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Best Buy Now Taking Pre-Orders for Apple MacBook Pro
The introduction of the new MacBook Pro has not been an unqualified triumph. That has not deterred Best Buy from promoting the new MacBooks at full retail pricing.
LendingClub Earnings Surprise Energizes Investors
Peer-to-peer loan maker LendingClub released better-than-expected third-quarter 2016 results before markets opened Monday morning.
IPO Calendar Thins Out for Election Week
Last week’s two scheduled initial public offerings (IPOs) succeeded in reaching completion, and neither was a smashing success. The calendar for the coming week lists just three IPOs, all micro-caps. GDS Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ:…
Have You Done Your November Home Maintenance Chores?
Fall temperatures have been quite mild across the United States so far, but they won’t last forever. Winter is on its way and some parts of the country can expect to see more than…
Ford Fusion Gaining Share on Toyota Prius in Green Car Market
Green car sales were higher year over year in October for all-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and diesels. That's the good news.
Marijuana News Roundup: 3 of 5 States on Track to Approve Recreational Use
Voters in five states will decide whether to allow recreational marijuana use, and voters in the other four are considering medical marijuana use.
Cost to US Companies of Data Breach Totals $7 Million
The average total cost to a company from a data breach rose 7% to $7 million, according to recent research sponsored by IBM.
10 Best Cities to Flip a Home
If the cable TV channels are any indication, buying a house cheap, adding some sweat and dollars, and then reselling it for a fat profit is back in style again.
Caterpillar Is Dow’s Best Performing Stock, Up 21% in 2016
The best performing stock among the Dow Jones Industrial Average to date has been Caterpillar, up more than 21% year to date, though down 0.3% over the past three months.
Rig Count Jumps as Crude Prices Plunge; Hedge Funds Raise Short Bets
In the week ended October 28, the number of rigs drilling for oil in the United States rose to 450, according to the latest Baker Hughes North American Rotary Rig Count.
Marijuana Price Falls to Yearly Low of $1,393 a Pound
For the week ended Friday, November 4, the spot price index for a pound of cannabis decreased more than 2% to the lowest level for the year to date, according to Cannabis Benchmarks.
Starbucks, Frontier Communications Slide into Friday’s 52-Week Low Club
November 4, 2016: Here are four stocks trading with relatively heavy volume among 1,140 equities making new 52-week lows in Friday’s session. On the NYSE, advancers barely led decliners and on the Nasdaq decliners…
P&G, Disney Weigh on DJIA Friday
November 4, 2016: Markets opened higher again Friday following a solid non-farm payrolls report that, including revisions for the past two months, topped 200,000 new jobs. But as happened on Thursday, equities slunk lower…
The Best and Worst US Airports
Like much of the rest of U.S. infrastructure, many major airports could do with some serious remodeling.
Tankers Falling Apart as Air Force Waits for New Boeing KC-46A
A U.S. Air Force KC-10 refueling tanker from the 60th Air Mobility Wing stationed at Travis Air Force Base in California lost its refueling boom on Tuesday and had to make an emergency landing.
Dow, DuPont Merger Review Halted Again in Europe
The proposed merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont ran into another snag when European regulators suspended their review of the deal for the second time.
Amazon Readies for Black Friday With Special Deals
With so many brick-and-mortar retailers kicking off their Black Friday deals early, Amazon.com won't be left behind.
JC Penney Wants You to Buy Appliances on Black Friday
The front page of the Black Friday advertising supplement from J.C. Penney features a Samsung refrigerator, as well as deals on diamond jewelry, towels, small kitchen appliances and women's winter boots. Not a toy…
Noble Corp Earnings Deliver No Good News to Shareholders
Offshore oil and gas driller Noble Corp. reported third-quarter 2016 results after U.S. markets closed Thursday.