The Week's Winners and Losers: Netflix, Walmart, Pandora
Filed under: Netflix, Food & Beverage, Wal-Mart, Wall Street Watch, Investing Frank Micelotta/Invision/The Associated PressIn a new Netflix sitcom, Lily Tomlin (left) and Jane Fonda play former...
View ArticleGold Up, Still Set for Biggest Weekly Drop in 4 Months
Filed under: Federal Reserve, Alternative Investment, Commodities & Futures, World Markets, Investing Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main/AP By Clara Denina LONDON -- Gold rose Friday ahead of a...
View ArticleHouse Rich: Neighborhoods With the Biggest Price Jumps
Filed under: Mortgages, Real Estate, Housing Market, Home Buying, Home Loans Getty Images By Suzanne Woolley and Bloomberg Rankings Showing Their Appreciation Harbor views, happening culture, a short...
View ArticleDismal Declines on Multiple Fronts for Red Lobster, Olive Garden
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Food & Beverage, Restaurants, Investing Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images Things aren't going so well for casual dining giant Darden Restaurants (DRI). The...
View ArticleBest (and Worst) States To Be a Taxpayer
Filed under: Taxes, Property Tax, Sales Tax, State Income Tax, Tax Laws By Robert Ferris Hate paying taxes? Then consider a home on the range, and keep as far away from New York as possible. The tax...
View ArticleWalmart's New Tool Provides Competitors' Prices
Filed under: Company News, Retail, Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Wal-Mart Jacquelyn Martin/AP By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO NEW YORK -- The "Every Day Low Price" king is trying to shake up the world of...
View ArticleAfter Market: Biotechs, 3-D Printing Cut Into the Week's Stock Gains
Filed under: Technology, Earnings, Market News, Biotechnology, Stocks The biotech sector was in the spotlight on Wall Street on Friday, and not in a good way. Biotechs have been stellar performers for...
View ArticleZuckerberg Says Obama Steps on NSA Spying Not Enough
Filed under: Company News, Facebook, Security, Scandals and Lawsuits, Barack Obama Alex Wong/Getty ImagesFcebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, arrives at the White House for a meeting Friday with...
View ArticleRegulators Failed to Spot Deadly GM Defects Others Saw
Filed under: Company News, General Motors, U.S. Government, Automotive Industry, Auto Recalls David McNew/Getty Images By Julia Edwards, Eric Beech and Karl Plume WASHINGTON and CHICAGO -- Retired...
View ArticleThis Just In: Stratasys, Ltd. Wins a "Buy" Rating (but Should You Care?)
Filed under: Investing At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." So you might think we'd...
View ArticleBig Movers: Bank of America, Herbalife, Microvision, and Pandora
Filed under: Investing Bank of America was the No. 1 traded stock on the NYSE today, after the bank received a downgrade from Atlantic Equities. Many investors are hoping to see a dividend increase...
View ArticleExxonMobil and Bank of Internet: Stocks to Watch This Week
Filed under: Investing In this segment from Monday's Investor Beat, Motley Fool analysts Taylor Muckerman and Matt Argersinger discuss two stocks they'll be watching closely this week. Taylor looks...
View ArticleInvestor Beat: Apple Teaming Up With Comcast?
Filed under: Investing Although neither company is commenting officially on the deal, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is in talks with Comcast over a streaming TV service that would use...
View ArticleApple's iPhone 5c Fails Where It Matters Most
Filed under: Investing Combining tech giant Apple's strong brand with a product that's affordable enough for emerging market consumers seems like a homerun business decision in the making, right? At...
View ArticleHow Airbnb Became a $10 Billion Company
Filed under: Investing Airbnb, an alternative lodging marketplace with more than 500,000 online listings in 192 countries, is in advanced talks to raise capital that would value the company at roughly...
View ArticleWhy Shares of DryShips, Inc. Stock Are in Hot Water Today
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 Article1 Piece of News That Could Move Exelixis
Filed under: Investing Investors will soon learn whether Exelixis will be able to expand the use of its Cometriq cancer drug beyond its current indication as a therapy for medullary thyroid cancer, or...
View ArticleWhy Netflix, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, and Facebook Are Today's 3 Worst Stocks
Filed under: Investing Eight in 10 sectors saw declines on Monday, as heavy selling among high-growth stocks and recent outperformers brought the broader market down as well. The biotech industry in...
View ArticleWhy Herbalife, Steel Partners Holdings, and Achillion Pharmaceuticals Jumped...
Filed under: Investing Monday was an up-and-down day on Wall Street, as major stock market benchmarks moved on both sides of unchanged before settling down on the day. Biotech stocks weighed especially...
View ArticleCan Twitter Keep Growing?
Filed under: Investing Less than one year after its initial public offering, social network company Twitter could be showing signals of a slowdown in user base growth. According to eMarketer, the...
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