courtesy of Facebook Inc.The Nikkei is close to a five-year high. (Reuters) Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) begins to fix Dreamliners, now that the FAA has approved its battery repair. (Reuters) LG Display Co. Ltd.’s…
By International Monetary Fund , via Wikimedia CommonsThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the world’s nations must invest more money in their economies or risk a tip back in the direction of a…
thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.(NASDAQ: VRTX) is up 61.9% at $85.60. Desarrolladora Homex (NYSE: HMX) is up 40.2% at $8.16. Novadaq Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: NVDQ) is up…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as the DJIA was slammed by a number of weak earnings reports both last night and before markets opened this morning. The was no economic data out…
This last week was a reminder that terrorism is far from gone. The dual bombs at the Boston Marathon were followed by ricin poison letters in the Senate and the White House mail rooms…
The world of Master Limited Partnerships (or MLPs) has to go through adjustments from time to time as investors sometimes wonder about their tax consequences at a time when the government is looking for…
The gun control legislation that failed to make it through Congress earlier this week once again highlighted the ongoing debate in this country about the balance between individual freedoms and concerns over gun violence.…
ThinkstockOverstock.com Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) had much of the same growth opportunities ahead of it as the now much larger Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). The companies even both had very colorful chief executives running them.…
Jon OggInvestors usually see many Wall St. analysts issuing Buy ratings, but they often overlook or do not see when Wall St. analysts give lists of stocks to sell or when they have very…
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IntelsatDreamliner to Return to Service Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) may be able to put its 787 Dreamliner back in service shortly. The problems with a battery on the plane that had caused fires and…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machine Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has lost the capacity for revenue growth. The troubling trend began a long time ago. Its recent earnings confirmed that the huge tech firm has run…
courtesy of MicrosoftThe most recent quarterly results of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) show that the growth rates of the two are not terribly different. Given that Microsoft is a…
ThinkstockBlackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) will halt its bid for Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). (Reuters) Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announces CFO departure as it posts strong earnings. (Reuters) Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has better-than-expected…
thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) is up 37% at $15.70. Adcare Health Systems Inc. (NYSEMKT: ADK) is up 36.7% at $5.88. Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. (NYSE: PTGI)…