thinkstockDecember 9, 2014: Markets opened lower on Tuesday following a sharp decline overnight in the Shanghai Composite after China’s central bank tightened up liquidity restrictions. A better than expected job openings report helped pull…
Wikimedia CommonsExxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) on Tuesday released its “2015 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040” in which the company makes some projections on the supply and demand for energy over the…
On Tuesday, announced it would cut production of its 747s to 1.3 planes per month, or just under 16 per year.
For three consecutive quarters, the American Customer Satisfaction Index has been declining, and the drop in the third quarter could indicate weak spending growth for the important fourth.
The country's two largest wireless carriers, Verizon and AT&T, have been forced into a competition neither sought with both Sprint and T-Mobile.
The National Federation of Independent Business reports that its small business optimism index for December rose to the highest reading since February of 2007.
Boeing on Tuesday morning released its 2015 aircraft finance market outlook. A lot of things have to go right for Boeing next year, and an expected dividend hike would help too.
Walmart's physical expansion in China appears to have slowed, according to a report in Caixin Online, and it is getting its lunch eaten by Alibaba and others.
ThinkstockDecember 8, 2014: Here are four stocks among the 326 equities making new 52-week lows today. Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) dropped about 6.4% Monday to post a new 52-week low of $57.70. The stock’s…
thinkstockDecember 8, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday after Japan reported a lower-than-expected revision to third-quarter GDP and the European Central Bank does not appear to have any interest in quantitative easing. Crude oil…
Boeing finally won the U.S. Air Force contract to replace the KC-10 and KC-135 refueling tankers in 2011 after nearly a decade of wrangling with both the Air Force and Airbus.
Since the beginning of 2011, some of the world’s largest mining companies have lost a third to nearly 90% of their market value as global demand for their products declined.
The world’s largest independent energy exploration and production company will be doing less exploration in 2015 and, it says, about 3% more production.
McDonald’s on Monday morning announced same-store sales for November, and it is hard to figure how the news could be worse.
Merck will acquire Cubist for $102 a share, or, about $9.5 billion, including $1.1 billion in Cubist’s net debt and other items.
Could oil drop to $40 a barrel again? Yes. Could oil prices remain at around $40 a barrel for long? Probably not.
Analysts at Moody’s Investors Service project that large commercial airplane deliveries will rise 3% to 5% to offset a similar decline in defense spending.
ThinkstockLast week’s attack on the Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) now appears to be more serious than the theft of unreleased movies. Employees of the company received threatening emails on Friday that claimed to be…
It appears that the IPO game will heat up for the coming week, with no fewer than 10 initial public offerings on the calendar.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.For the three-month period ending in October, Samsung Electronics gained 0.9% of market share in the U.S. smartphone market, for a total share of 29.3%. The Korean electronics giant still trails…