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Why 2014 May Be a Big Year for Opko Health, Inc.
Filed under: Investing Philip Frost has never been shy about backing his investments. Frost, the former founder of IVAX, and Chairman of generic heavyweight Teva Pharmaceuticals, has big stakes in a...
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Lockheed Martin Lands $611 Million Patriot Missile Contract
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense worked overtime Friday, awarding 34 separate defense contracts in 24 hours. Total value: $1.46 billion. The biggest award by far went to defense...
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Sysco and Its Subsidiaries Win the Pentagon Food Service Contracts
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense worked overtime Friday, awarding 34 separate defense contracts in 24 hours. Total value: $1.46 billion. Among the publicly traded companies winning...
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Pentagon Awards $1.46 Billion in Defense Contracts Friday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense worked overtime Friday, awarding 34 separate defense contracts in 24 hours. Valued at $1.46 billion in total, the contracts covered everything from...
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BlackBerry's Revenue Drops Off a Cliff
Filed under: Investing Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry released its latest earnings results this morning. Shares rose this morning, but have now given up most of their early morning gains. By...
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Pentagon Awards Nearly 3 Dozen Defense Contracts Friday
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded 34 separate defense contracts worth $1.46 billion in total Friday. Among the publicly traded companies winning work: A joint venture between...
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Textron Wins $105 Million Filipino Helicopter Contract
Filed under: Investing The Canadian subsidiary of U.S. defense contractor Textron has won a contract to supply the Philippines' Department of National Defense with eight specialized helicopters, as was...
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How Staples Can Adapt Its Principal Office Supplies Business in the Age of...
Filed under: Investing Staples has had stagnant sales growth for the last five fiscal years; maybe it's time that the company reorganizes itself in yet another private-equity deal, to come out with a...
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Facebook Inc. Stock This Week: Drones, Satellites, Lasers, and Virtual Reality
Filed under: Investing Facebook made some wild announcements this week. After revealing that it will be paying $2 billion to acquire a company that builds virtual-reality goggles, it announced a new...
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Capex Is Cramping LINN Energy's Style
Filed under: Investing Once an income investor's best friend, LINN Energy has recently provided some nightmares for that conservative crowd. Distributions rose 97% from its 2006 inception to early...
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Taco Bell Targets McDonald's With Breakfast, While Chipotle Watches
Filed under: Investing Waffle Tacos with Bacon, anyone ? Yum! Brands' Taco Bell rolled out its much-anticipated breakfast menu this week. It's an interesting move and points out that doing breakfast...
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Will Stocks Crash If Russia Invades Ukraine?
Filed under: Investing Russian troops are massing near the Ukrainian border a week after the Eurasian power annexed the Crimean Peninsula. Despite recent overtures from Vladimir Putin, the posturing...
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Intel's New Best Friend May Be Google's Worst Nightmare
Filed under: Investing What do you call a company that dominates one industry that is slowly declining, while the industry that offers the most hope represents less than 10% of its business? Intel ....
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How Oculus Could Help Facebook Break Into Health
Filed under: Investing Facebook recently stunned the world by buying Oculus VR, the maker of the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, for $2 billion. Oculus Rift started out on Kickstarter, where it...
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The Two Best Investments You Can Make Right Now
Filed under: Investing There are two investments you can make that will do more good for your financial well-being than any stock, bond, mutual fund, precious metal, or real estate. In fact, you...
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This Week in Biotech: Biogen Idec Gets a Key Approval While Insmed Confuses...
Filed under: Investing With the SPDR S&P Biotech Index up 38% over the trailing-12-month period, it's evident that investment dollars are willingly flowing into the biotech sector. Keeping that in...
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Why Baby Boomers and Millennials Think So Differently About Money
Filed under: Investing Photo: UTI Pictures There are fewer than 20 years' difference between the youngest Baby Boomers and the oldest Millennials, but when it comes to money, the latter generation is...
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Your Taxes: Cost-Basis Basics
Filed under: Investing Selling an investment typically has tax consequences. To figure out whether you need to report a gain -- or can claim a loss -- after you sell, you must start with the cost basis...
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The Country's Smartest Professors Work at These 5 Colleges
Filed under: Investing Choosing a college or university is hard work, and takes a lot of time and research for those who are serious about making the right choice. Of the myriad factors usually...
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Is Chesapeake's Reduced Oil Production Growth Forecast Really That Bad?
Filed under: Investing Faced with persistently low natural gas prices over the past few years, Chesapeake Energy , the nation's second-largest natural gas producer, has made impressive strides in...
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