American corporations have been even more aggressive that professional sports franchises in the adoption of the term "Indian" or pejorative terms for Native Americans, images of Indians and the names of specific tribes.
Airlines keep somewhat careful tabs on whether pilots are drunk, as a means to support passenger safety and expensive planes. As it turns out, screening for suicidal tendencies might be a better idea. According…
The first of two polar vortex events was a few days ago. The next will hit this weekend, at the peak of the late shopping season.
Mortgage rates for some risky loans recently have moved above 4%. That level has now entered the mainstream.
ThinkstockSpecial from ZeroHedge With crude oil prices up over 50% YoY (the most in 6 years), and retail gas prices up over 10% YoY (the most in 5 years), Bloomberg’s Garfield Reynolds suggests the…
By Evan Danckwerth of PrivCo, a private company financial intelligence platform PrivCo screened through its proprietary Private Company Financial Database with information on over 900,000 private companies to rank the PrivCo Top 250, our definitive ranking…
Amazon.com has announced that its Prime Video will be available in 200 countries and territories, which is just about the entire world.
CEO Ginni Rometty has been aggressive in trying to ally herself with Donald Trump. One of Trump's signature issues is to keep U.S. companies from exporting jobs.
In an effort to keep up with the Jones (which in this case is BMW and Audi), Mercedes has buttressed the middle of its model line with a new iteration of the E-Class, With…
A few things will need to happen for oil to reach and hold $60 a barrel, as it has started its march in that direction. With $60 oil, comes $3 a gallon gasoline.
Wal-Mart will help the most tardy shoppers in America as it allows them to pick up gifts in the final hours before Christmas.
So far this year, share price increases among newspaper companies have been related more to mergers and acquisitions than financial performance. New York Times has broken that pattern.
Boeing will sell more than $16 billion worth of planes to Iran in a deal that it says will create 100,000 jobs. Can it possibly know that number?
Oxfam International, the global poverty watchdog, has supplied companies with a list of the best places to park money to avoid taxes.
How hard is it to buy an apartment in Trump Tower, the president-elect’s New York City residence and home base of his empire? Built in 1983 for $200 million, many of its apartments have…
TThinkstockhere are a lot of data about how the holiday season has gone so far, and how it is likely to go in the next two weeks. With just 14 shopping days until Christmas,…
The most searched listing on Realtor.com for the past week is on top of a nine-story building in Monroe, Louisiana, a dirt-poor city.
Short sellers are taking an aggressive run at Tesla Motors, though the same powerful and frequent rumors keep moving Tesla's shares.
A group of investors has increasingly bet that something is off at Apple. The number of its shares sold short surged in the most recent period.
Amazon and Wal-Mart have been chasing one another toward the goal of being the top retailer in America, by one measure or another, for years. Based on stock price, the race is a tie…
