It seems that the appetite for online brokerage firms to do selective M&A deals is not entirely dead.  TD Ameritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD) has announced this morning that it is acquiring much smaller...
SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI) is indicated up this morning.  The recent IPO’s quiet period by analysts has ended and the initiations of new coverage looks positive on the surface. Since its...
We wrote this morning about the ongoing M&A chatter about SUPERVALU Inc. (NYSE: SVU). The store is seeking a buyer for the whole company, but so far most of the interest has come from buyers...
BP's long financial nightmare may be close to an end. Whether this ends the environmental effect of the incident is less clear.
Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) may have posted a 33% gain to earnings and it may still have a lot of growth ahead of it.  The reality is that the company is running into a valuation issue. ...
Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY) has announced a new environmental project to power 23 California stores with renewable solar energy. The company installed solar panels atop a newly renovated Safeway...
Source: ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has become one of the greatest cloud providers for businesses out there, and now Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) is trying ever harder to catch up. This...
Safeway (SWY) Food prices hurting retailing margins. Falls to $25.75 from 52-week high of $38.31. Northrop Grumman  (NOC) Q1 charge still weighs on shares. Sell off to $69.48 from 52-week high...
It felt like the pace of dividend hikes was slowing down.  Wrong.  There were at least six big hikes today that came from the likes of ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE), Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX), Dr....
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights A firestorm of protest from consumer groups, solar and other cleantech businesses — and even California Gov. Gavin Newsom — in recent days succeeded...
We are expecting two initial public offerings this week.  On the docket are SolarWinds, Inc. to trade under the “SWI” ticker on the NYSE, and OpenTable, Inc. to trade under the...
Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today.  We have Thomson Reuters targets of $0.18 EPS and $1.87 billion in revenue.  We will be paying...