7 Insurance Policies You Don't Need
Filed under: Insurance, Auto Insurance, Consumer Issues Blend Images/Getty Images You could almost insure every step you take in life -- but you shouldn't. You could spend every available dollar you...
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Filed under: Energy, Stock Picks, Barnes & Noble, Automotive Industry, Consumer Goods, Telecommunications Matthew James/Alamy It's been a rocky year for many investors. The S&P 500 climbed just...
View Article5 Surprising Losers of the First Quarter
Filed under: Retail, Electronics, Restaurants, Stocks, Investing Cassandra Hubbart/AOL After last year's heady gains, the market's been taking a breather in 2014. The Dow's index of 30 blue chip giants...
View ArticleE-Schools Lose Their Cool, Measured by Enrollment, Revenue
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Industry News, Investing Joshua Lott/Bloomberg/Getty Images The once-promising world of online higher learning continues to flunk out. Apollo Education Group (APOL)...
View ArticleBook a Wedding Venue for Less -- Savings Experiment
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View ArticleISM: Service Sector Growth Strides Ahead in March
Filed under: Economic Indicators, GDP, Economic Recovery, Job Market, Investing Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK -- Growth in the U.S. services sector accelerated in...
View ArticleMortgage Rates Move Up a Tick in Latest Survey
Filed under: Mortgages, Refinancing, Housing Market, Home Buying, Interest Rates Jae C. Hong/AP WASHINGTON -- Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages rose slightly this week but remained near...
View ArticleMall Staple Brookstone Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Filed under: Bankruptcy, Company News, Retail, Shopping, Consumer Goods Jeff Greenberg/Alamy MERRIMACK, N.H. -- Brookstone, a staple in malls and airports nationwide, is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Board Member Jeremy Stein to Resign
Filed under: Economic Recovery, U.S. Government, Federal Reserve, Barack Obama Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Board of Governors member Jeremy Stein By MARTIN CRUTSINGER...
View ArticleAfter Market: High Tech Dives Lower, Drags Everyone Down
Filed under: Technology, Market News, Biotechnology, Stock Markets, Investing The stocks we used to refer to as high-fliers spent most of Friday getting shot down. In the first few minutes of trading,...
View ArticleApple's 6-Month Sand Trap
Filed under: Investing Apple will report earnings on April 23 after the market close. Analysts are cautious ahead of the report, apparently universally bullish on the tech giant over the long term but...
View ArticleAfter Soaring, Can Restoration Hardware Reach New Heights?
Filed under: Investing Source: Wikimedia Commons One of the biggest stock market movers on March 28 was Restoration Hardware . The home-furnishing retailer reported revenue that fell shy of forecasts...
View ArticleWhy Synnex Corporation, Emerge Energy Services LP, and Mylan Inc Are Today's...
Filed under: Investing Investors had a hard time finding much optimism around the stock market today. The S&P 500 took a big hit after Wall Street had time to digest this morning's March jobs...
View ArticleShould Tesla Motors Inc. Investors Care About the New Jersey Effect?
Filed under: Investing In recent years, the National Automobile Dealers Association, or NADA, and certain states having been pushing back against Tesla Motors' direct-sales model, saying that it would...
View ArticleDon't Buy These Railroad Stocks Until You Read This
Filed under: Investing As a business, it's difficult to succeed when you have three of the most powerful forces on earth working against you -- weather, government, and unions. And that's just what...
View ArticleThis Footwear Retailer Will Scale New Heights
Filed under: Investing Footwear retailer Foot Locker has soared ever since the company posted solid fourth-quarter results last month. Foot Locker's robust growth isn't surprising as its strategies...
View ArticleThe Latest Weapon in the Restaurant Wars: Free!
Filed under: Investing Source: McDonald's. So, you don't want to go to McDonald's , Burger King , or Wendy's ? Given the reputations for these quick-service restaurants regarding unhealthy fast food,...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Aims for New April...
Filed under: Investing "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" debuts in the U.S. this weekend. Credit: Disney/Marvel It's time to gear up, Marvel fans, because this weekend Disney Marvel's Captain...
View ArticleCostco's Success: Company Culture Plays a Role
Filed under: Investing costco.com Investors look at everything from earnings-per-share results to same-store sales to cash flow expectations, but many investors tend to overlook one of the most...
View ArticleDow Slumps 159 Points, Potbelly Pops
Filed under: Investing Monthly nonfarm payroll numbers came out today, and Wall Street found little to applaud about March's labor market. Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by at least 200,000...
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