Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe stock market is down Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.35%, the Nasdaq down 0.58% and the S&P 500 down 0.52%. The winners included a…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened mixed this morning, taking until mid-morning to rise above the flat line and stay above it for the rest of the day. The initial response…
Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOR) has seen a sudden and rapid share price tank today. Reports are out that Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) has managed to stop payments to the company. Details are…
Jon C. Ogg The stock market is mixed Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.14%, the Nasdaq down 0.14% and the S&P 500 up 0.05%. Today’s winner is a popular company trying to…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning on an absence of new data from overseas and an expected drop in new claims for unemployment benefits did not occur (our…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following a negative reaction by a government official to a weekend report that Germany would support a sovereign bond-buying plan for the…
Stocks opened the week lower Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.21%, the Nasdaq down 0.37% and the S&P 500 down 0.30%. Today’s winner is being boughto out by a…
Workers in the aerospace industry are concerned about potential military cuts at the end of this year. (Reuters) Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) says that founder Richard Schulze turned down an…
In the latest in a string of multi-billion-dollar acquisitions in the U.S. health care sector, Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) has agreed to buy competitor Coventry Health Care Inc. (NYSE: CVH) for $5.7…
David Einhorn and his hedge fund Greenlight Capital reported some changes to the fund’s portfolio last night. The fund added significant holdings in several health care stocks and eliminated a couple of…
The three major US stock indexes opened mixed this morning following the unemployment report from the Eurozone, which showed that the 11.2% rate had remained unchanged. The Eurozone consumer price index was…
U.S. stocks are set to open higher on the final day of July. All three indexes are expected to post mild gains for the month. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Now that the healthcare constitutionality argument has passed, healthcare and insurance providers are consolidating. WellPoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) just announced that it was acquiring AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) in a $4.9 billion transaction in…
If you were watching the reactions in the market after the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare as being constitutional as a tax, you might think that the healthcare insurance providers are suddenly…
Thursday was D-Day for the Supreme Court decision on the Obama healthcare mandate as to its constitutionality. The long and short of it is that the mandate is constitutional as a tax…
