As you might have guessed ahead of time, Ben Bernanke and the FOMC decided to leave the target Fed Funds Rate unchanged at the 0.00% to 0.25% that has been in place for what now feels like the dawn...
People who want to order the new iPhone from Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) online store can do so now, as long as they are willing to get the phone with a black finish. No other colors are available...
The change in weekly jobless claims came in at 631,000 for this last week.  That is a drop of 14,000, but that also comes after a revision of the week before to 645,000 rather than the preliminary...
The media’s first reaction to the Commerce Department’s new home sales number was, in almost every case, positive. That was a mistake.New home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of...
Home Depot’s (HD) sales only rose 4% in the most recent quarter, to $20.27 billion. And same-store sales for the period fell 6.6%. EPS fell from $.60 to $.50. Operating income fell 22%. There...
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that weekly jobless claims were at 272,000 in the week ending February 20. Its report from a week ago was 262,000. The consensus estimate from both Bloomberg and...
The staff at most of the Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) recently went though a few hours for training. The nationwide program was designed to make the people working in the stores do a better job of serving...
2019 was a very good year for the top U.S. defense firms. Most posted double-digit share price gains and a wave of consolidation could push more gains in the year ahead.
If you didn't know that you could do group calls on Apple devices, you do now.
Executions – by hanging, firing squad, electric chair, or lethal injections – have been part of the U.S. justice system since the founding of the country. From 1608 to 2002, 15,629 people...
When Gen. Dwight Eisenhower surveyed the beaches of Normandy months after the D-Day Invasion, which secured an Allied foothold in continental Europe, he stated: “Without air supremacy, I wouldn’t...
Coverage of the appearance of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference run by tech news site TechCrunch was widespread. Zuckerberg said he was disappointed by the performance...
The pricing of Tesla's offer to acquire SolarCity has been finalized, and SolarCity shareholders reacted pretty much as one might expect.
This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Melly Alazraki. India is the world’s biggest importer of arms, and it has been for some...
Cisco is scheduled to release its fiscal first-quarter financial results after the markets close on Wednesday.