courtesy of Starbucks Corp.Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is out with its second quarter earnings for its fiscal 2014. The coffee retailing giant reported earnings of $0.56 per share on revenues of $3.87 billion. Thomson…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is out with its first quarter earnings report for 2015, and the company did not follow Apple in its effort to make shares more…
F5 Networks investors must be very confused if they go to quote pages for their news. The company beat earnings expectations and raised guidance, at least that it is how it is being reported…
Standard & Poor's has affirmed its CCC rating on National Bank of Greece. The call sounds like it is one of stability on the surface, but S&P's outlook is Negative.
Microsoft is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Thursday. This could be the most widely followed Microsoft report in years because Satya Nadella will be leading the call for the…
ThinkstockWith all the funny money printed and quantitative easing measures after the recession, it has been amazing that the cost of goods has not risen through the roof. In fact, it has baffled many…
courtesy of philip morris internationalThe U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has come out and proposed to extend its tobacco authority to additional tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. What the public needs to know is…
Facebook is seeing a surge in its shares the morning after earnings. Analysts have keyed in on Facebook, almost all with a positive bias.
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with another weekly jobless claims reading. Weekly claims rose by 24,000 to 329,000 in the past week, and the prior week’s reading was revised…
ThinkstockWere prior reports on durable goods kept lower due to weather? It seems so. The March durable goods report from the Department of Commerce came in at a headline reading of 2.6%. Bloomberg was…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wall Street on Thursday, April 24, 2014. They include Apple, Boeing, Ciena, Facebook, Goodyear and Xerox.
In a new research report, RBC adds and deletes names from its Guided Portfolio: Dividend Growth offering. We screened them by sector, looking for the highest yield for income-oriented investors.
Sirius XM has reported its first-quarter earnings results. The big buyback news is that on Friday the company is scheduled to repurchase 93 million shares from Liberty Media.
Could stock splits be coming back in vogue? Apple finally announced a major stock split. What is amazing is that the split was so large, on a seven-for-one basis.
Apple is out with its second-quarter earnings for 2014. The pressure has been on and off for Tim Cook to do something more aggressive, and this earnings report will put at least some of…
Courtesy Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has reported its first-quarter earnings for 2014. The social media behemoth posted adjusted earnings of $0.34 per share and revenues of $2.502 billion. We had previously shown why…
ThinkstockBy any stretch of normal measurement in earnings season, Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) should have been a rocketing stock on Wednesday. Gilead blew away earnings and revenue estimates. Its Sovaldi Hepatitis C drug…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau releases some interesting studies throughout the course of the year. Considering that it has the Census report, it does after all have access to solid data about the population. Wednesday’s…
The market for initial public offerings was getting to be a bit ridiculous. Now that volatility has returned in the broader stock market, a reality check is starting to be seen as more IPOs…
Caterpillar earnings are coming out on Thursday, and the expectations have to be far better than they were in quarters past. There are just a few problems to worry about.