Exelon has agreed to develop a deployment plan for American Superconductor's superconductor technology to build a superconducting cable system that will strengthen Chicago's electric grid.
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department released its Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand for the month of June on Wednesday morning. We were worried that wholesale inflation would be stronger than what the economists…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Wednesday, July 16, 2014. They include Apple, Intel, Nationstar, IMAX and Diageo.
Sirius XMThere has been some talk of late that corporations are starting to slow down on their waves of stock buybacks. It might make sense when you consider that many of the market’s most…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) had already guided revenues higher for its second quarter, and now we have the final earnings report. The semiconductor and processor giant reported earnings of $0.55 per share on revenue…
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govWarren Buffett has never really been a big seller of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) stock. Still, it has been well telegraphed that the shares in Mr. Buffett’s estate would go into…
ThinkstockOn Wednesday morning the markets will have to deal with yet another reading on inflation — albeit at the wholesale level. The US Labor Department will report its reading for the Producer Price Index…
Intel is set to dominate the bias toward much of the technology sector when it reports earnings on Tuesday after the close. Intel already raised its guidance back in June.
Yahoo! is set to report its second-quarter results after the close of trading on Tuesday. All eyes will be focused on Yahoo's external gains from the Alibaba IPO.
ThinkstockInflation in international trade will be nothing to scare the Federal Reserve into a major inflationary panic. June’s import and export prices were more than just tame. Export prices were down by 0.4% on…
Historically, food and the prepared food markets were supposed to be recession proof. Now it turns out that consumer shifts are changing this longstanding rule. Consumers remain value conscious, and they are also changing…
courtesy of AppleThe Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is now looking for 2014 to be an all-time record high for global consumer electronics. Its semi-annual sales forecasts signaling that consumer electronics revenues will be up…
ThinkstockFed Chair Janet Yellen offered a bit of a surprise in her semiannual Monetary Policy Report in front of Congress on Tuesday. It may seem like a bit like Alan Greenspan’s moment regarding irrational…
ThinkstockFed Chair Janet Yellen is delivering her semiannual Monetary Policy Report in front of Congress on Tuesday. The testimony is before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate. Her speech…
ThinkstockJune turned out to not be a great month for retail sales. The Census Bureau reported that advance monthly sales for retail and food services rose by only 0.2% to $439.9 billion on a…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Tuesday, July 15, 2014. They include Applied Materials, Citi, Lexmark, PHH, Twitter and Stratasys.
ThinkstockCredit Suisse issued its regional allocation for global investors on Monday. The firm’s Andrew Garthwaite sees several key changes taking place in the second half of 2014. Keep in mind that this was also…
PetSmart may be trading more on outside forces than it is off of fundamentals. That is the take of Bank of America Merrill Lynch at any rate.
Goldman Sachs traded higher ahead of Tuesday's earnings report. It turns out that one of the drivers may not just be solid results from Citigroup -- it could be the firm's outlook for the…
Kandi Technologies Group is not the best known company to U.S. investors, but those who do know it were smiling on Monday on news that it sold 4,114 Kandi brand electric vehicles during second…