Krispy Kreme and Williams-Sonoma Pop After Hours, but Vail Skids
Filed under: Investing Stocks spent most of today's session in the red but finished essentially unchanged as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 11 points, or 0.07%, while the S&P 500...
View ArticleCan Amyris Inc. Save Deep-Sea Sharks and Expand This Market by 230%?
Filed under: Investing Blue sharks have been identified as the culprits of 13 attacks on humans in the last 430 years, according to the International Shark Attack File. There are likely more attacks...
View ArticleThis Turnaround Company Could Enrich Investors
Filed under: Investing Diamond Foods has an extremely high debt load and has recently been accused of accounting fraud. This may not be an investment for the faint of heart, but if you believe in...
View ArticleHow You Can Profit When iPhone Shipments Surge
Filed under: Investing Speculators betting against the growth of Apple may soon find themselves in troubled waters. According to a recent report by Digitimes, Apple's recent deals with China Mobile...
View ArticleWhy World Acceptance, Carriage Services, and Gogo Tumbled Today
Filed under: Investing On Thursday, the stock market finally succumbed to some of the nagging problems that have plagued it over the past couple of weeks, as investors pointed to the situation between...
View ArticleHere's Where Things Get Really Ugly for Caterpillar
Filed under: Investing After reporting some horrible numbers over the past year, heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar looked like it finally bulldozed its way out the deep hole it dug. Shares have...
View ArticleThe Rare Retail Success Story
Filed under: Investing In a rare bit of truly good news for a brick-and-mortar retailer, fourth-quarter profits for Williams-Sonoma came in higher than expected, with the company also increasing its...
View ArticleApple: 3 Reasons It Might Be Time to Buy
Filed under: Investing Apple's had a decent year with gains of 25%, but it still remains more than 20% off its all-time highs. But the company's deal with China Mobile , new product launches, and new...
View ArticleKrispy Kreme's Fat Quarter
Filed under: Investing Fourth-quarter profits for Krispy Kreme more than tripled year over year, with the company now having approximately 800 locations worldwide. Just how much bigger can this...
View Article1 Financial Stock We're Watching Now
Filed under: Investing In this segment from Thursday's Investor Beat, Motley Fool analyst David Hanson discusses why Discover should stand in its own right as a strong performing investment, rather...
View ArticleInvestor Beat -- Amazon Raises Its Prices
Filed under: Investing Amazon.com has now made it official: the company has raised the price of its Amazon Prime membership service from $79 a year to $99 a year. Amazon had initially suggested that...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn't Panic About the Dow's 231-Point Drop Today
Filed under: Investing Thursday's decline of 231 points for the Dow Jones Industrials came as a shock to some investors today, given the market's past resilience even in the face of escalating tensions...
View ArticleThe Case For Apple Inc.'s Opportunity in China in 3 Charts
Filed under: Investing When it comes to Apple , the Street is getting impatient. Hoping the iPhone 5c would be a low-cost smartphone to compete with an onslaught of cheap Android-powered devices in...
View ArticleIs It Time for Intel to Buy NVIDIA?
Filed under: Investing As both an NVIDIA and Intel shareholder, one merger that has seemed extremely appealing over the last year has been the purchase of NVIDIA by Intel. The synergies here are...
View ArticlePentagon Awards $453 Million in Defense Contracts Thursday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 13 separate defense contracts Thursday, worth $453.2 million in total. Among the publicly traded companies winning contracts: Exelis was awarded...
View ArticleL-3 Communications to Help DARPA Build Drone-Based Internet System
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 13 separate defense contracts Thursday, worth $453.2 million in total. Defense contractor L-3 Communications won two of them: The larger of the...
View ArticleWhy Shares of Williams-Sonoma Inc. Popped
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleHow Toyota Motor Corp.'s Recalls Could Hurt the Company in the Long Run
Filed under: Investing Toyota Motor , the world's largest automaker, has been doing very well. The company expects record earnings this fiscal year on the back of a weaker yen, low costs of production,...
View Article3 Recession-Proof Stocks That Reduce Risks for Customers
Filed under: Investing Source: Stericycle Industrial stocks are typically perceived as vulnerable in a recession, as their business operations are cyclical. However, this isn't the right way to assess...
View ArticleLockheed Martin Wins 3 Defense Contracts Thursday (and Part of a Fourth)
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 13 separate defense contracts Thursday, worth $453.2 million in total. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin was the big winner of the day, landing...
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