Two investment firms have reportedly made an offer to acquire Macy's for a premium of around 32%. Will the famed department store survive?
Opexa Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXA) shares were in free fall Friday morning after the company reported results from its mid-stage trial for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple...
For increasing numbers of Americans, a landline phone is a superfluous expense that they can do without.According to a survey released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
From Ticker Sense Wal-Mart’s (WMT) report on Tuesday marked the end of fourth quarter earnings season.  For the quarter, 67% of S&P 500 companies beat estimates while 19% missed.  The 67% beat...
Many huge endowments would be happy with an 8% return on their money during the course of a year.
Used car sales firm Carvana faces what could be its last chance to turn itself around.
Source: Wikimedia CommonsThe three headlines about Intel Corp.’s (NASDAQ: INTC) earnings indicated that the numbers were fine, the forecast lackluster and a critical new chip product will be...
Overbuilding resulted in the collapse of WeWork financially and the start of a series of layoffs.
Source: thinkstockChinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) announced earlier this week that it will close its plant in Arizona on April 3, costing 43 employees their...
Apollo Education Group released mixed fiscal third-quarter earnings after the markets closed Monday.
Decades of advice turn out to be so much garbage. By Helaine Olen of The Big Money Years ago, when I wrote a popular financial makeover feature for a major national newspaper, one of our subjects...
Cramer said that a lot of momentum is ending on his Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com today.  The profit taking is coming out of the REIT’s after the EOP/Zell deal because...
By William Tretn, CFA of Stock Market Beat A comment on a recent post ignited an important debate. Important enough, we felt, to expand upon our thoughts in a full post. reinharden Says:Your premise...
Yale's endowment rose 7% last year but trailed Harvard's by a mile. Harvard's endowment rose slightly to $36.5 billion.
America's colleges and universities have the equivalent of the richest 10%, just as the population does. At the top of that elite group are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and others.