ThinkstockAugust 12, 2014: Stocks making new 52-week lows today included the following four firms. Ceasars Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ: CZR) saw shares fall nearly 18% to a new 52-week low of $11.26 Tuesday afternoon. The…
thinkstockAugust 12, 2014: Markets opened lower on Tuesday, took a brief turn into the green, and then settled into the red by mid-morning. Energy stocks led the decline as data on crude oil indicates…
courtesy of TwitterWhen Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) announced its second-quarter earnings late last month, the company estimated that 14% of its monthly active users (MAUs) used a third-party application to access the company’s micro-blog…
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.In 2013, Samsung Electronics claimed 31% of the global market for smartphones and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) garnered 15%. Those totals are on track to fall to 25% for Samsung and…
ThinkstockThe International Energy Agency (IEA) in its July release projected 2014 oil demand growth of 1.2 million barrels a day. It also projected at the time that demand would rise to 1.4 million barrels…
Volkswagen Group of AmericaFor the first seven months of 2014, Volkswagen AG’s U.S. passenger car sales fell by 13.6% year-over-year. Globally, however, the company reported Tuesday morning that passenger car sales were up 3.8%…
Jaguar Land Rover - Tata Motors Inc.India’s Tata Motors Ltd. (NYSE: TTM) posted a solid earnings beat on Monday and the company’s stock rose 7.5%. Tata’s sales in its home country have been lagging,…
ThinkstockShort interest rose yet again in the two-week period ending July 31 for all four of the 3D printing companies we follow. Share prices fell at all four companies during the period and all…
ThinkstockIn three of the five solar stocks we track, short interest rose during the two-week period to July 31. The biggest movement, however, was a decline in short interest in one of the other…
courtesy of Sirius XM RadioHere’s a look at the five Nasdaq-traded stocks with the largest number of shares held short as of July 31. Short interest in three of the five stocks declined, and…
Wikimedia CommonsHere’s a look at the five NYSE-traded stocks with the largest number of shares held short as of July 31st. Of the five, short interest of two had decreased. Short interest in AT&T…
ThinkstockAugust 11, 2014: Stocks making new 52-week lows today included the following four firms. Demand Media Inc. (NASDAQ: DMD) saw shares fall nearly 8% to a new split-adjusted 52-week low of $8.99 Monday morning.…
thinkstockAugust 11, 2014: Markets opened higher Monday following a relatively quiet weekend on the geopolitical front. Semiconductors and biotechs were among the better performing sectors on a day when no economic data was released.…
ThinkstockBy James Stafford of Oilprice.com Ukraine doesn’t need Russia to take it down — Kiev is doing fine destroying itself, most recently with a new tax code that doubles taxes for private gas producers…
Kinder Morgan Inc.Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) CEO Richard Kinder takes a salary of just $1 a year for his role as chairman and CEO of KMI and the other companies in the Kinder…
Microsoft Corp.In a press release issued at 3:01 a.m. Monday morning, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced the first — and quite possibly the last — mobile phone to bear the name of the Finnish…
Thinkstock Update: When Richard Kinder did not get the CEO job at Enron, he put together a deal to acquire Enron’s pipeline assets. The resulting company, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, was a master…
ThinkstockThe Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) reported second quarter 2014 results before markets opened Monday morning. The online travel and hotel reservation company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $12.51 on revenues…
The Walt Disney Co.Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has apparently decided that when the going gets tough, the company will play tougher. In what appears to be the company’s latest distribution dispute, Amazon has removed…
Volkswagen Group of AmericaVolkswagen AG issued a recall notice on Saturday for more than 189,000 Tiguan compact SUVs sold in the U.S. and Canada to fix an engine stalling problem. The recall follows by…