In a marriage that will create the world’s fourth-largest car company, Groupe PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (NYSE: FCAU) will merge-50/50. The announcement: The plan to combine the Groupe PSA and FCA businesses…
If car companies learned anything in the last recession, it is that a sharp drop in car buyers can ruin a manufacturer. GM would certainly find Ford a strong partner as the industry consolidation…
Mattel posted much better than expected earnings. The owner of Barbie has proven that it can return to its spot as a major toymaker.
From the Council on Contemporary Families 1. Even after accounting for receipt of public benefits and programs for low-income families, 13% of U.S. children—9.7 million—are living in families with incomes below the poverty line. Without…
Tiffany, which has received a buyout offer from luxury conglomerate LVMH, is not a very good company. Investors should take the money and run.
Auto sales should stay steady, moving along at a near-record pace, in October. However, some car companies will suffer a fall-off in sales.
It is not much of a house, measuring 2,500 square feet with three bedrooms and two baths. The listing makes the home seem inviting. The drawback is that one of America's best known serial…
Apparently, shoppers do not want to wander around stores looking for items they may want to buy. They also do not want to wander around websites looking for specific items when retailers might make…
Apple's shares are up more than 56% so far this year, outpacing all other members of the Dow Jones industrial average. This week's earnings announcement will tell whether the stock can continue a meteoric…
Amazon's shares have underperformed the Nasdaq this year. The index is more than 13% higher, but Amazon's shares are up 8% or so. In the meantime, Walmart's stock has risen by nearly 26%.
The national rate of drunk driving deaths has slowed, according to new research. Yet in several states, the number has soared.
Germany, the largest economy in Europe and the fourth largest in the world, is in deep trouble, and the big economic engines are sputtering all over the world.
Twitter posted one of its occasionally horrible quarters, which is either proof that its business model was always hopelessly flawed or that CEO Jack Dorsey is out of excuses for the deeply harmful stumbles…
Ford's latest earnings statement shows how poor a job its CEO and board chair have done as the company's performance continues to deteriorate.
U.S. gasoline prices have not moved much in the past month. A gallon of regular in California today costs over four dollars.
A new Gallup poll shows that two-thirds of Americans believe marijuana use should be legal, up sharply from 50 years ago.
While a decline in drunk driving and better safety systems in vehicles continue to reduce the number of drivers and passengers killed in cars, pedestrians have not been so fortunate.
WeWork's CEO will get more than $1 billion in the bailout. But will he give any of that to the thousands of people WeWork will lay off in the next several weeks?
The updated IMF World Economic Growth Outlook downgrades the organization's global growth forecast to less than 3.5% gross domestic product expansion.
One would think that with Spider-Man and other superheroes on its side, Hasbro should do very well in its most recent quarter. It didn't.
