By Matthew YoheMatt Yohe at en.wikipedia CC-BY-3.0, from Wikimedia CommonsWhile the irony of Steve Jobs being honored on a U.S. postage stamp is not lost on anybody in the technology world, it certainly highlights…
Engaged Capital, an investor in Abercrombie & Fitch, said it has nominated five directors to the retailer's board. This is part of the investment company's ongoing efforts to prompt Abercrombie to sell itself.
In a new research report, Deutsche Bank analysts start coverage on some of the top machinery names on Wall Street. Here are their four top machinery stocks to buy that may offer investors a…
Despite last year's sequester and numerous walls of worry to climb, the defense and aerospace stocks have shined. In a new research report, UBS suggests that most of the money has been made.
In a new research report, the analysts at Stifel make the case that while residential housing construction should remain strong, non-residential may have a lot more upside from this juncture in the market.
ThinkstockDespite posting better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year results recently, along with a dividend hike and a plan for additional share buybacks, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) investors are not happy. Shares have fallen to a nine-month low…
ThinkstockWeakness in France, the second largest nation in the eurozone, put a damper on business activity in the 18-nation bloc overall, according to Markit’s Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index. The eurozone PMI fell from 52.9…
In a stock move that is starting to defy gravity, social media giant Facebook has eclipsed the market value of two longtime stalwart members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average: AT&T and Coca-Cola.
Wikimedia CommonsGoogle Capital has made its third investment. Renaissance Learning, an education technology start-up, said on Wednesday that Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) investment fund had acquired a minority stake in the company for $40…
The chemical sector has outperformed the S&P 500 in two-thirds of the past 15 years. Looking forward, 2014 looks to be another year of outperformance for the right stocks. Here are three top chemical…
Even though some of the poorest people in the world can be found in emerging Asia, financial wealth there is on a path to outpace that of the United States by 2015, according to…
Stifel analysts just completed meetings with the top companies at the recent Technology, Internet and Media Conference in San Francisco. They think that cloud computing and software-as-a-service are moving well beyond early adopters and…
In a new research report, Jefferies analysts highlight some top stocks to buy that are doing so well that the price targets have to be moved higher. We screened the report for the top…
The ACEA said on Tuesday that the demand for new passenger cars in the European Union increased for the fifth consecutive month. Registrations rose 5.5% in January, relative to the same period of last…
While Sony-backed films took three of the top five spots in this past weekend's U.S. box office, it was "The Lego Movie" from Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner, that came out on…
Toyota has experienced something of a double whammy Monday: its second recall in a week and a weather-related disruption of production back home.
Biogen Idec has announced that Chairman William D. Young will retire from the its board of directors and will be replaced by Stelios Papadopoulos. The latter is a former investment banker specializing in life-sciences…
Novartis announced Monday morning that it will acquire privately held startup biotech CoStim Pharmaceuticals. Terms of the deal were not revealed, but it will bolster Novartis's cancer immunotherapy portfolio.
In a week that saw the markets continue to march higher, some of the top Wall Street firms that we cover were lowering the boom with Sell ratings on some very high profile names.
Shares of Ciena surged Friday morning following an announcement that the network specialist had reached a strategic global agreement with Ericsson that will help the companies compete with Cisco Systems.