Tesla Earnings Ahead of Tesla Model X Launch
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has a nice bookend to its upcoming earnings, which are likely to be spectacular. The electric car company, or its CEO Elon Musk, leaked that the…
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BlackBerry Buyout Last Stand: Qualcomm M&A Unlikely
Courtesy of BlackBerryBlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) faces its last stand as a public company, while three or four financiers and corporations prepare bids for assets that some analysts think are worth nothing. Stupidity has…
Procter & Gamble Wins with Naming Rights to New England Patriots Stadium
Courtesy Procter & GambleThe New England Patriots have become “America’s Team,” a position that belonged to the Dallas Cowboys for years. Patriots games are among the greatest shows on earth, with quarterback Tom Brady slinging…
As Gas Prices Fall Toward $3, Does the Economy Get a Lift?
ThinkstockThe media is full of analysis of why a drop in gasoline prices may help gross domestic product (GDP). Most of that analysis is flawed because it does not look at the numbers state…
The Market Turned Its Back On Facebook Earnings, As Twitter Looms
Courtesy Facebook Inc.Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) earnings release is less than a week old. In such short period of time, Wall St. has shrugged them off. On the most recent Monday the stock topped out…
VW And Hyundai Are Sales Losers Again
courtesy of Kia MediaThe U.S. October car and light truck sales numbers were another reason for the industry to cheer the remarkable run the industry has had since the depth of the recession in…
Risk in J.C. Penney Stock Rebound
Courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; photo by Chris RupertThere is a growing school of thought that J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has started to walk out of the deep woods of retail oblivion…
Nexus 5 Launches on Google Play with New Version of Android
Courtesy ZTE Corp.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has released the Nexus 5 at its Google Play website, using words like “stunning,” “powerful,” “colorful” and “slim.” It is, in other words, like almost every other tablet or…
Shareholders Resist Larry Ellison CEO Compensation
courtesy of OracleShareholders of Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) voted against the huge pay package of CEO and founder Larry Ellison. Or more accurately, they voted against the company’s pay practices as exercised by the…
Sony, Maker of PS4 and Breaking Bad, Earnings Fail Again
courtesy of Sony Corp.No matter how great its franchises or brands are, no matter who the company employees as CEO, Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) continues to fail again and again at the bottom line.…
Facebook Earnings: Are Shareholder Conference Calls Fair?
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Anyone who bought stock in Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) immediately after it released its earnings got a momentary 14% return. A few minutes later, that return evaporated, and the gain became…
VW Global Results Point to Disappointing Car Sales
Courtesy Volkswagen AGThe Volkswagen Group means to become the world’s largest car manufacturer as measured by unit sales. That means it will have to push ahead of longtime leaders General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM)…
Should Taxpayers Have Lost $9.7 Billion on GM Bailout?
courtesy of General MotorsThe Treasury Department’s SIGTARP report to Congress shows that taxpayers lost $9.695 billion on the General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) bailout, once loan repayments and stock sales were taken into account. The…
Lenovo Tablet, Launched by Ashton Kutcher, Competes with Apple Mac, Dell and HP PCs
courtesy, Lenovo Group LimitedLenovo, the China-based PC company, released its new Yoga Tablet and claimed it would revolutionize the portable computer device world. That claim can be added to dozens of others by the…
What Janet Yellen Means
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and served as a former head of the San Francisco Fed, was recently chosen by President Obama to…
Walmart to Promote 25,000 Workers
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWAs a means to counter what has been an outcry over the amount of money Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) makes, the world’s largest retailer will promote 25,000…
BP Raises Dividend as Troubled Past Fades
courtesy of BP plcThe Deepwater Horizon explosion that resulted in a historically large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, 2010. BP PLC (NYSE: BP), which operated the well, would…
States Where Gas Is Back at $3
Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. used Gas Buddy to find states where the price of a gallon of regular is within a penny or so of $3. The price of gas nationwide continues to fall, as…
Will Apple Earnings Miss or Beat Expections?
courtesy of Apple Inc. Updated 1:15 p.m. EST: Twitter Speculation on Apple Earnings Updated 12:55 p.m. EST: If Apple has a bad earnings reception, the stock is trading above key technical levels. Its 50-day moving…
A New Rise in Global Mergers/Buyouts
courtesy of Verizon WirelessMergers and acquisitions (M&A) sometimes can be an excellent measure of the economy’s financial health. However, since there is a great deal of evidence that most M&A results are failures, a…