ThinkstockIn just a matter of days, the S&P 500 managed to produce a sell-off of more than 6%. The equity strategy team at Jefferies concede that the recent correction in share prices…
ThinkstockSince the March 2009 market lows, there have been 12 times the Nasdaq has fallen by 5% or more, including the current pullback of 6%. The average pullback has been 9% and…
As the top Web stocks continue to sell off, the shares of one company stand out particularly as a victim of the carnage. Groupon stock is down more than 30% this year.
Healthcare.govIt’s probably no surprise that millions of Americans visited HealthCare.gov — the website where Americans can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. However, while it was among the…
ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is supposed to the most important of the publicly traded Web 2.0 companies. The conclusion is natural. The world’s largest social network has 1.1 billion members. Its revenue…
thinkstockApril 4, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday but turned indisputably south by mid-morning. Momentum stocks soured late in the morning, and added to woes in biotech and tech stocks. In the…
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.For the three months ending in February, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) grew its share of the U.S. smartphone market by 0.1% compared with the three month period ending in…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is taking a few lumps today in a new report from Greenpeace that claims that the some firms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) base their electrical power…
Apple, at the forefront of global technology, also has taken a lead in renewable energy. That is the conclusion of a new report from Greenpeace that looks at energy use at many…
ThinkstockMobile device users spent two hours and 42 minutes of their time on those devices in March, up just 2.5% over March 2013. Of that time spent, 86% was spent using apps,…
Nearly every product, store, sports team, band, movie, you name it is on Facebook and Twitter. Savvy retailers understand that it is not just the young who use and are drawn to…
ThinkstockWhen Chinese Internet company Alibaba announced it would hold an initial public offering, the betting in markets around the world was that the IPO would be the most valuable ever, with the…
thinkstockMarch 26, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday but equity prices trailed downward all morning, finally going into the red in the early afternoon. If there was any momentum in today’s market…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. They include Carlyle Group, Facebook, Garmin, Sirius XM and Tesla Motors.
Despite the rise of online properties such as Twitter, Pinterest and BuzzFeed, the sites that dominate the list of those most visited by Americans are the portals and search site Google.
