Why Rayonier, Shanda Games, and YPF Soared Today
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleTesla Motors' Supercharger Network Gets a Boost
Filed under: Investing Tesla Motors passed a fresh milestone this week, after the electric-car maker officially connected its East Coast and West Coast Supercharger network. This will allow Model S...
View ArticleKeep an Eye on Obamacare's Strong Enrollment Trend
Filed under: Investing In this video from Friday's Market Checkup, Motley Fool health-care analyst David Williamson tells investors in the health-care sector why he has his eye on the Obamacare...
View ArticlePentagon Awards $340.6 Million in Defense Contracts Monday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded eight new defense contracts Monday, worth $340.6 million in total. More than half of these funds went to one single company -- Britain's...
View ArticleMicrosoft Corporation Had a Fantastic Quarter
Filed under: Investing Shares of Microsoft opened about 4% higher the day after the company reported solid earnings, with double-digit revenue growth in both its consumer and commercial segments. The...
View ArticleApple Earnings: Wall Street's Disappointment Could Be Your Opportunity
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleWhy IBM Is Selling Its Server Business to Lenovo
Filed under: Investing The world's largest PC manufacturer, Chinese technology company Lenovo , will pay $2 billion in cash and $300 million in stock to acquire IBM's x86 low-end server business, also...
View ArticleWhy Apple Is Critical to Semiconductor Foundries
Filed under: Investing It's no secret that the move to next generation semiconductor manufacturing technologies is becoming more expensive per generation. Not only are the actual capital requirements...
View ArticleWhy Geron, Regis, and Nam Tai Electronics Tumbled Today
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleOramed Pharmaceuticals: Monday's Top Stock
Filed under: Investing Even though the markets took a beating over the past week and biotech stocks experienced a broader industry sell-off, one stock in this space stood out as the clear winner on the...
View ArticlePfizer Inc. and Geron Corporation: Monday's Biggest Losers
Filed under: Investing While several biotech stocks sold off today in a broader industry sell-off, two stocks in this sector fell today because of their own bad news. Geron tumbled by about 15% today,...
View ArticleHow to Profit From Energy? Invest in Alaska
Filed under: Investing Alaska is about to fund up to $5.9 billion of a $45 billion natural gas export project. It joins ConocoPhillips , ExxonMobil , and TransCanada as an equity partner. The state...
View ArticleNervous Investors Continue Sell-Off: Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter All Tumble
Filed under: Investing Follow @mthalman5513 Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're...
View ArticleCost-Cutting Saves a Cautious Caterpillar Inc.
Filed under: Investing Following the drop in monthly dealer retail sales stats that Caterpillar reported last week, the market was ready for the heavy equipment manufacturer to completely go over the...
View ArticleThe Sprint Deal Is Just Another Reason to Love NQ Mobile
Filed under: Investing NQ Mobile jumped over 10% when it was announced that Sprint will provide a version of its NQ Live security software to Sprint Nextel's Android smartphones. NQ's anti-virus...
View ArticleJamie Dimon Doesn't Deserve More Money Than This Man
Filed under: Investing JPMorgan Chase has officially given its CEO, Jamie Dimon, a big pay bump, but does he deserve to make more than Wells Fargo's John Stumpf In this segment of The Motley Fool's...
View ArticleShould the United States Be More Like Iceland?
Filed under: Investing Iceland's banking system got into deep trouble, but its economy is now firing on all cylinders. In this segment of The Motley Fool's financials-focused show, Where the Money Is,...
View ArticleHere's How Visa and MasterCard Actually Make Money
Filed under: Investing Investor's consensus is that Visa and MasterCard are great operators, but how do these two behemoths actually make their money? In this segment of The Motley Fool's...
View ArticleIs Genworth Financial a No-Brainer Buy?
Filed under: Investing Shares of Genworth Financial have rallied from their post-crisis lows but still trade at a deep discount to book value. In this segment from The Motley Fool's...
View ArticleIs Care.com Fairly Valued?
Filed under: Investing Care.com jumped big on the day of its IPO, but even after a 43% gain, it might still have a favorable valuation to dot-com peers Facebook , Twitter , Yelp , and LinkedIn . But,...
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