What Happens to Shorted Shares in a Bankruptcy?
Filed under: Investing In this edition of The Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Motley Fool One analyst Jason Moser and Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst Brendan Mathews take a question from a reader...
View ArticleThe E-Cig Market Grows Up
Filed under: Investing Aside from the fact that the electronic-cigarette market has grown from virtually nothing to $1.7 billion in annual sales in a little over five years, one sign of the industry's...
View Article1 Threat to New York Community Bancorp's Dividend
Filed under: Investing The executives at New York Community Bancorp are in a bind. While they want to continue growing the bank's balance sheet, doing so could jeopardize its quarterly distribution to...
View ArticleCitigroup's Shares Will Fall on Thursday -- Investors Should Look at Them Now
Filed under: Investing U.S. stocks could not sustain the morning's gains on Wednesday, as the benchmark S&P 500 ended the session with an 0.7% loss. The narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average fell...
View ArticlePentagon Awards $2.25 Billion in Defense Contracts Wednesday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 14 separate defense contracts Wednesday, worth $2.25 billion in total. Among the publicly traded companies winning contracts: L-3 Communications...
View ArticleCan China Mobile, iPhone 6, and the iWatch Return Apple to Double Digit-Growth?
Filed under: Investing Is double-digit revenue growth a thing of the past for Apple ? Based on Apple's weak stock performance since September 2012, the market seems to believe that's the case. The...
View ArticleGeneral Dynamics, Textron Win Defense Contracts Thursday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 14 separate defense contracts Wednesday, worth $2.25 billion in total. General Dynamics didn't win the biggest of these contracts -- but its...
View ArticleDow Jones Industrial Average Falls 99 Points, King Digital Plummets 16%, and...
Filed under: Investing Fresh off yesterday's 91-point win, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 99 points Wednesday following more war-like words from world leaders in the wake of Russia's Crimea...
View ArticleThe $393 Billion Industry You've Never Heard Of
Filed under: Investing The meetings and events industry covers the gambit from backyard weddings to massive citywide festivals like SXSW, plus conferences, galas, fundraisers, and celebrations. It's a...
View ArticleWhy Zions Bancorporation Flunked the Stress Test
Filed under: Investing If you're a shareholder of Zions Bancorporation , then there's a good chance you're irritated at the Utah-based bank. At the end of last week, investors learned it was the only...
View ArticleTASER Reports Hundreds More AXON Camera Sales
Filed under: Investing Just one day after TASER International updated investors on the latest sales successes for its AXON on-body wearable camcorders for police officers, the company came out with...
View ArticleWhy Leidos Holdings, SFX Entertainment, and QIWI Tumbled Today
Filed under: Investing Looking at the broad stock market benchmarks, Thursday appeared to be a largely meaningless day for the market, as investors saw only small declines pegged largely to ongoing...
View ArticleGrowth vs. Value: Is Microsoft Stealing Google's Investors?
Filed under: Investing Microsoft had long been blasted as being a stale technology company that "missed mobile" and couldn't innovate. While long-suffering shareholders for the past 10 years dealt with...
View ArticleWhy Citigroup, Accenture, and Windstream Corporation Are Today's 3 Worst Stocks
Filed under: Investing Although all three major U.S. indices lost ground on Thursday, the mood on Wall Street wasn't "bearish" by any means, and only 49% of publicly traded companies declined. While...
View ArticlePentagon Awards $6.64 Billion in Defense Contracts Thursday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 19 separate defense contracts Thursday, worth $6.64 billion in total. The biggest award by far was a $5.79 billion multiple-award,...
View Article1 Way Facebook Can Recoup Its $2 Billion From Oculus
Filed under: Investing By now, most investors know that Facebook allocated another $2 billion to acquisitions this week, this time putting virtual reality in its sights with the purchase of Oculus....
View ArticleYou'll See Apple Inc. Streaming More Music Soon
Filed under: Investing Would you subscribe to an Apple streaming music service? You may soon have the option, Billboard reports. Fool contributor Tim Beyers explains the implications of the proposed...
View ArticleHow to Generate Income Using Call Options
Filed under: Investing Stock markets are looking overvalued, and investors looking to squeeze some extra value from their stocks should consider a covered call option strategy. A covered call is just...
View ArticleWhy the Dow Will Outperform the Nasdaq in 2014
Filed under: Investing The Nasdaq Composite's performance in 2013 beat the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 37% to 27%. But most of the gains were due to multiple expansion, and now the Nasdaq's average...
View ArticleLululemon Jumps on Earnings, and Microsoft Rolls Out Office for iPad
Filed under: Investing Stocks ended mostly flat today as the continuing sell-off of momentum and tech stocks countered strong economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down just five...
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