RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is seeing shares higher today on news that it will be selling the iPad2 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) at about 500 stores throughout the country. The initial…
Facebook may hire the former White House press secretary Gibbs (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will reopen stores it had to shutter in Japan (Reuters) Jobs may be the lagging indicator for a…
The L.L. Bean website says the retailer will offer free shipping for any order placed with the company. Unlike other retailers there will be no minimum purchase price to qualify. Amazon.com (NASDAQ:…
America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before the middle…
The market does not expect much from Best Buy (NYSE: BBY). The company is about to release quarterly figures. Analysts think that results will be hurt by low TV sales. Best Buy…
Japan’s markets fell on concerns about contaminated drinking water (Reuters) The US has stopped imports from the area around Japan’s nuclear disaster (Reuters) The damage to Japan could cost $300 billion (Reuters)…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is the world’s most valuable brand with a $43.3 billion valuation. It is followed by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Bank of…
Not many things test a brand’s strength more than a price increase. Nike (NYSE: NKE) said it will increase what it charges for most products by 5.2% because of rising costs for…
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) cut 5% of the employees in its trading operation (Reuters) Congress added another stop gap budget bill to take the federal government’s funding through April 8 (Reuters)…
coutesy of Exxon Mobile Corp.The market capitalization of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) moved ahead of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) last year. It was a humiliation for the world’s largest software company which held…
FedEx (NYSE: FDX) profits will probably be higher but hurt by gas prices. (Reuters) Lehman Bros has set November 17 as the date to get approval of its bankruptcy plan. (Reuters) Problems…
There has been an interesting trend of late that might lead investors to wonder if they should be involved in or not. Dollar stores and discounters seem to be in the middle…
“We will encourage the best firms to acquire or build up overseas operations and to license or acquire famous global brands in order to obtain international recognition and improve the image and…
Japan was hit by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. (Reuters) Chinese insurance regulators passed on details of the AIG (NYSE: AIG) disaster to local insurance companies, according to WikiLeaks. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
On a day when lower oil has not prevented a triple-digit drop in the DJIA and a larger 1.7% drop in the S&P 500, we wanted to see what was working out…
