Merck Livens Up the Dow's Jump
Filed under: Investing After yesterday's late-session tumble, the major U.S. stock indices are back in the green today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had gained 45 points as of 2:30 p.m. EDT, with...
View ArticleAllied Nevada Gold Is Close to the Inevitable
Filed under: Investing Back at the beginning of June, I wrote an article on Allied Nevada Gold where I suggested that the company could become a takeover target in the longer term. As it turned out,...
View ArticleGeneral Mills Goes Big for Healthier Products
Filed under: Earnings, Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage Cassandra Hubbart/AOL General Mills (GIS) is launching healthier products and revamping and promoting its existing ones to revive sales that...
View ArticleTarget Finally Starts Delivering on Free Shipping
Filed under: Investing Source: Target. With all the exclusions that applied to Target's online free shipping policy, it's no wonder customers felt frustrated by the experience, and, according to...
View ArticleFord Motor Company Unveils All-New Edge and Caterpillar Faces Another...
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrial Average shrugged off negative economic data from the Commerce Department and was trading 30 points higher, or 0.18%, by midafternoon. The department...
View ArticleViaSat and Google Imply That AT&T Has Big Plans for DirecTV
Filed under: Investing ViaSat's surprisingly fast Internet speeds, combined with recent actions on behalf of Google , might imply significant upside potential in the future of satellite Internet...
View ArticleT-Mobile US Inc. Is Giving Away Apple's Best iPhone
Filed under: Investing T-Mobile is the nation's fastest-growing carrier. Last quarter, it added 1.3 million monthly subscribers -- more than both of the largest U.S. carriers combined. Yet, despite its...
View Article$100 Billion? $1 Trillion? Just How Big Is the Potential 3-D Printing Market?
Filed under: Investing If you're invested in 3D Systems , Stratasys , one of their smaller peers, or just following the disruptive 3-D printing space, you know that this technology is growing like...
View ArticleHow Important Is California to Dunkin' Donuts?
Filed under: Investing The dream of the Oregon Trail never dies. Companies fire up in the East, build a head of steam, and then push out across the Midwest to find their fortune on the West Coast....
View ArticleWhy Zulily Inc Shares Jumped 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 ArticleCould Cliffs Natural Resources Really Go Bankrupt?
Filed under: Investing Iron ore futures prices from CME Group GlobexCliffs' stock prices from Google Finance Cliffs Natural Resources' stock price has dropped an astounding 85% since its peak of $100...
View ArticleWhy Shares of CVR Refining LP Dropped 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 ArticleBusiness Leaders Stress Economic Risks of Climate Change
Filed under: Investing Source: Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the U.S. A major threat is staring the U.S. economy in the face and the situation is so dire that an all-star...
View ArticleWill the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Help Save This Company?
Filed under: Investing Small-caps tend to fly under the radar, but when a promising investment emerges it's best to look for any unnoticed value we as investors can pounce on. Comstock Resources has a...
View ArticleIntel Is the Dow's Top Stock of 2014
Filed under: Investing The U.S. economy is already looking well past the reported 2.9% contraction experienced in the first quarter, a figure that was revised up today from a previous 1% estimate from...
View ArticleWhy Shares of Media General, Inc. Jumped 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 ArticleAfter Market: Stocks Finish Higher; S&P 500 Nears Record
Filed under: Technology, Market News, Drug Companies, Internet Stocks gain on Wall Street with broadcasting shares getting a big boost from the Supreme Court's decision against Aereo. Investors brushed...
View ArticleSeeing Faces in NYC Inspires Business Startup in San Francisco
Filed under: Small Business Garry Bowden/Souls of San FranciscoAlex Regenstreich, founder of iseefacestoo In 2012 I was standing in Bloomingdale's in NYC when I noticed a famous Celine purse that...
View Article3 Costly Mistakes You Are Making on Life Insurance
Filed under: Family Money, Personal Finance, Insurance Industry, Life Insurance, Financial Education Alamy Thinking about your life insurance is not much fun, and far too many people ignore this...
View ArticleWhat We All Can Learn from the Military's Payday Loan Problem
Filed under: Personal Finance, Payday Loans, Financial Education Getty Images As a 19-year-old, Robert Knoll made a mistake that many young people do -- he got into debt. Knoll did it by living beyond...
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