courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Last Friday the Walton family, heirs of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) founder Sam Walton, announced that the family business, Walton Enterprises LLC, would would distribute about 6% of its…
Wireless carrier Sprint more than doubled its retail footprint Saturday with the opening of 1,435 Sprint-RadioShack co-branded stores.
For the three-month period ending in February, Samsung Electronics lost 1.1% of market share in the U.S. smartphone market.
In the week ended April 10, the number of rigs drilling for oil in the United States totaled 760, according to the latest Baker Hughes North American Rotary Rig Count.
The United States is forecast to remain the world's largest economy in 2030, but China will close the gap between first and second place.
ThinkstockApril 10, 2015: Here are four stocks among the 12 equities making new 52-week lows today. Extreme Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) dropped about 28% on Friday to post a new 52-week low of $2.33…
thinkstockApril 10, 2015: Markets opened higher on Friday after GE announced a plan to dump real estate assets held by GE Capital and initiate a share buyback of $50 billion. Equity markets generally rode…
In the first three months of 2015, there were a total of 34 initial public offerings on U.S. equity markets. In the same period, about 270 companies held secondary stock offerings.
At a signing ceremony Friday in Panama City, Boeing received a firm order for 61 of its new 737 MAX single-aisle jets, which carry a list price value of $6.6 billion.
The Air Force needs to come up with a fleet of 350 new trainers at a time when the U.S. defense budget is under pressure both from lower appropriations and sequestration.
The delivery time for most Apple Watch models currently is listed at four to six weeks, and some models have no indicated delivery time.
ThinkstockApril 9, 2015: Here are four stocks among the 38 equities making new 52-week lows today. Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: HST) dropped about 1.6% on Thursday to post a new 52-week low…
thinkstockApril 9, 2015: Markets opened higher on Thursday and the three major indexes spent most of the day bouncing around the breakeven line. Equity prices turned higher with about an hour left in the…
Analysts and investors began to see the value of Petrobras assets in light of the $70 billion mega-deal in which Royal Dutch Shell will acquire BG Group.
The EIA reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 15 billion cubic feet for the week ending April 3.
The proliferation of self-directed investment choices has not eliminated the need for full-service investment advisory firms.
Retailers are announcing March U.S. same-store sales figures Thursday. Research firm Retail Metrics projected an overall gain of 1.1% year-over-year.
Walgreens Boots Alliance reported mixed second-quarter fiscal 2015 results before markets opened Thursday morning.
ThinkstockApril 8, 2015: Here are four stocks among the 38 equities making new 52-week lows today. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: SPPI) dropped about 5.2% on Wednesday to post a new 52-week low of $5.58…
thinkstockApril 8, 2015: Markets opened higher on Wednesday on a quiet news data. Mortgage applications rose slightly even as mortgage rates slipped lower. Then the crude oil inventory report hit the wire at mid-morning…