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Should Investors Be Worried About Arcos Dorados?
Filed under: Investing In this segment of Friday's Investor Beat, Motley Fool analyst Ron Gross gives investors one stock that he'll be watching closely this week. He takes a look at Arcos Dorados ,...
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The Jobs Report Looks Strong -- How Will the Fed React?
Filed under: Investing The monthly jobs numbers are in, and they look good. How will this impact the Fed, and its tapering off of its quantitative easing program? In this video from Friday's Investor...
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Pentagon Awards $10.33 Billion in Defense Contracts Friday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 12 separate defense contracts Friday, worth $10.33 billion in total. The vast majority of these funds, however, were awarded in just a single...
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Why Big Lots and Foot Locker Jumped
Filed under: Investing Investors seemed to get what they were looking for out of today's jobs report, but stocks still held steady as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  gained 31 points, or 0.2%, while...
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Target: Opportunity or Still in the Cellar?
Filed under: Investing To figure out Target's potential over the next year, we need to look at some key numbers. At the same time, one non-event as well as one key comment might be the clearest...
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The Radical Plan to Force the Biggest Banks to Pay the Government $86 Billion
Filed under: Investing Hate your taxes? Hate the banks? One proposal is seeking to revolutionize both. Many have taken issue with the taxes -- or lack thereof -- paid by companies in recent years, yet...
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Gaming Stocks Have Suddenly Become Dividend Plays
Filed under: Investing Melco Crown is the latest gaming company to consider paying a dividend after its board of directors recommended paying both a special and regular dividend. If approved, it would...
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Don't Believe This Common Warren Buffett Myth
Filed under: Investing Some people believe Warren Buffett has lost his edge. Berkshire Hathaway's book value growth has actually lagged the total return of the S&P in four of the past five years....
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Consumers Hesitate to Take On Credit
Filed under: Investing Total consumer credit expanded at an annual rate of 5.3% for January to hit $3.11 trillion, according to a Federal Reserve Consumer Credit report (link opens a PDF) released...
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Why Falling Ferrari Sales Are Good for Fiat Chrysler
Filed under: Investing Ferrari's 458 Italia is one of the world's most coveted sports cars. Ferrari has been taking steps to make them even more exclusive. Photo credit: Ferrari S.p.A. It doesn't make...
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Retirement vs. College Saving: 3 Reasons to Put Yourself First
Filed under: Investing Prioritizing savings can be hard when you face multiple demands on your money. For those with kids, deciding whether to save for retirement or for your children's college...
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Are America and Russia Creeping Toward a Confrontation Over Ukraine?
Filed under: Investing In what looked for all the world like a game of geopolitical chess, with multimillion-dollar pieces of military hardware serving as the pawns, the United States made several...
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Urban Outfitters Shareholders Should Be Cautious Heading Into Earnings?
Filed under: Investing Source: BrokenSphere/Wikimedia Commons When Urban Outfitters reports earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2013 fiscal year on March 10, what will the outcome be? This is the...
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The Walt Disney Company Wants to Help You Cut the Cord
Filed under: Investing Walt Disney reached an agreement with Dish Network on Monday, to end carriage fee disputes that started in September of last year. Among other things, the deal allows Dish to...
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PetSmart's Mixed Earnings Send Shares Lower
Filed under: Investing PetSmart , the leading pet products and services retailer in the United States, has just released its fourth-quarter report to complete fiscal 2013. The results were mixed in...
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Royalties Trouble Ahead for Qualcomm?
Filed under: Investing According to BI Intelligence, approximately 22% of the world's population now owns a smartphone, up from just 5% six years ago. In addition, one out of 17 people around the world...
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iKang Healthcare: The Latest IPO to Watch
Filed under: Investing iKang Healthcare could find the going tough in New York with its newly announced plan for a Nasdaq IPO, at least based on the lackluster record for others from China's medical...
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3 Consumer Companies Thriving in Spite of the Cold Weather
Filed under: Investing Weather conditions have become a matter of much discussion lately, as the cold and snowy winter in many parts of the country has hurt many companies over the past few months,...
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Facebook Inc. Is Growing Up
Filed under: Investing It wasn't long ago there were concerns about how Facebook would continue its stellar top-line growth. The fear, and it was a legitimate one, was that Facebook users would get...
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TV Everywhere Stinks, and Verizon Wants to Fix It
Filed under: Investing Verizon CEO Lowell McAdams told investors on Tuesday that the company is in talks with content providers to deliver web-based TV programming to mobile devices. This comes just...
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