24/7 Wall St. StaffA firm that provides employer-sponsored childcare and other family services held its initial public offering (IPO) this morning, with shares priced above the expected range of $19 to $21. Bright Horizons…
Courtesy Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.Cruise ship operator Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: NCLH) kicked off its initial public offering today. The firm priced 23.53 million shares at $19 a share, which was…
ThinkstockThe Greenbrier Companies (NYSE: GBX) reported first-quarter fiscal 2013 diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on revenue of $415 million. In the same period a year ago, the railcar builder reported diluted EPS…
ThinkstockApollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) reported fiscal first quarter 2013 adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.22 on revenue of $1.06 billion. In the same period a year ago, the for-profit education firm…
ThinkstockIn yet one more sign that China has not only dodged the recession but it has been largely unaffected by the troubled economies of the rest of the world, the services sector of the…
courtesy of StarbucksStarbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) will open a store in Vietnam, and why not. The investment is tiny, if meant to determine whether the coffee shop chain can take a piece of the morning…
courtesy of Google Inc.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has upped the ante in the competition among major e-mail suppliers, which would include, at least, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and AOL Inc.…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has scrounged up another way that might make it money. So far, Wall St. has been disappointed about the revenue Facebook has managed to derive from its one…
thinkstockTwo of the most famous names in media research and ratings have agreed to a merger. Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) will acquire all outstanding shares of Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) for $48 a…
ThinkstockThe Institute for Supply Management is out with its semiannual outlook, and the group sees economic growth continuing in 2013. The December 2012 Semiannual Economic Forecast is based on surveys of purchasing and supply…
ThinkstockFedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects to move 19 million packages on Monday, making it the busiest day in the company’s history. Over the course of the peak holiday shopping season — from Thanksgiving Day…
ThinkstockPalo Alto Networks Inc. (NYSE: PANW) has been a growth story since before its July IPO. Shares came public at $42 and climbed to more than $72 in September, before beginning a slide brought…
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced after markets closed today that it would accelerate its dividend payments for the second, third and fourth quarters of its 2013 fiscal year. The company will pay shareholders of…
ThinkstockThe ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) reported fourth-quarter and full fiscal year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. Quarterly adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) totaled $0.43 and revenues came in at $812 million.…
ThinkstockDropbox, the online storage company that many people think will file for an initial public offering, has hit a member milestone. It has 100 million users. The firm describes itself as “a free service that…