ThinkstockAlibaba Group Holding Limited has finally filed its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct an initial public offering in the United States. The IPO will be much larger, but the filing…
starwars.comThe Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is out with its first quarter earnings for 2014. The media and entertainment giant reported earnings of $1.11 per share, up from $0.79 per share a year ago.…
Wikimedia CommonsGroupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) has reported its first quarter earnings for 2014. The daily deals and discounts reported earnings of -$0.01 per share, and revenue was $757.6 million. Thomson Reuters was expecting a…
Wikimedia CommonsIn a move that had already started, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and its PC-making customers are moving further and further away from the old Win-Tel days. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is winning new…
ThinkstockWith consumers on a budget and with the economists arguing whether deflation or inflation is closer, 24/7 Wall St. is keeping a watchful eye out for any price spikes in the things that affect…
Kimberly-Clark has reconfirmed its previously announced plan to spin off its health care business. The new company will be called Halyard Health, and it will be a stand-alone public company.
The Twitter IPO lockup expiration has arrived. Many shareholders are now free to sell. And sell they will do. Many Twitter investors own this at a tiny cost basis and this is finally their…
Office Depot is back, sort of. Shares surged on Tuesday after the retailer of office supplies posted a better quarterly report than expected. If you follow this industry, the news is more than welcome.
ThinkstockIt does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that months of weak housing data are signaling real underlying problems in the single-family home market. Sure, certain markets remain hot and with prices…
Good news may be on the way for EMC doubters. After the company's own EMC World event, we have seen two analysts defend EMC, the world's leader in storage products, particularly for enterprises.
Courtesy Maersk LineThe U.S. international trade balance, or the trade deficit, came in largely in line with expectations for the month of March. It was -$40.4 billion, up from the -$42.3 billion in February…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. They include Anadarko Petroleum, BroadSoft, Charles Schwab, KBR, Target and Valero Energy.
ThinkstockVIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is going to have to explain how its diet pill Qsymia had lower prescription volumes sequentially. If you just look at the revenue number, it looks massively higher at $36.7…
Courtesy of Apple Inc.If you think that stock splits and stock buybacks do not matter to investors, take a look at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for its new stock handle. The is a “six”…
Wikimedia CommonsAmerican International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is out with its first quarter earnings. As a reminder, Barron’s recently published that AIG could double in five years. AIG reported net income of $1.6 billion…
ThinkstockThis weekend we covered something that should have been more controversial than it was made out to be. That would be whether it was safe to invest in emerging markets. It so happened that…
Oracle has seen two upgrades in two days. The more important analyst upgrade of the two came from Bernstein on Monday, when the firm raised the rating to Outperform from Market Perform.
Courtesy Starbucks Corp.After a solid jobs report on Friday and after more good news from the Conference Board on Monday, two more economic barometers are signaling that growth is resuming in the broader economy.…
24/7 Wall St. wanted to see which companies are looking the best or worst now that so many earnings reactions have been seen. The first such review is in chip leaders.
24/7 Wall St. wanted to look at Groupon's earnings expectations, as well as looking to see whether the daily deals and discounts website is a winner or it needs to create a living will.