Europe Rocks U.S. Stocks, Potbelly Sandwiches Stumble, and Costco June Sales...
Filed under: Investing Well... that was awkward. Just when you thought it was fine to go back in the water and all the European debt crisis worries of 2012 were behind us, a Portuguese bank made a...
View ArticleWhy Dollar General Shareholders Should Welcome Rick Dreiling's Retirement
Filed under: Investing Dollar General (NYSE: DG) is at the top of the dollar store market. First quarter earnings, although disappointing in comparison to analyst expectations, compared favorably to...
View ArticleThe 3 Worst Performing Restaurant Stocks of 2014
Filed under: Investing 2014 hasn't been good for all restaurants. While the stock market makes new highs, many restaurants are struggling. The competition has eaten into their businesses, which has...
View ArticleWhy GameStop Could Soon Get Exclusive Video Game Content
Filed under: Investing Major new video game launches could soon feature built-in content that's exclusive to GameStop . A company spokesman confirmed this week that the retailer is looking to partner...
View ArticleMichael Kors Is Going to War With Coach for Men's Luxury
Filed under: Investing Watches will be one key to Michael Kors' growth in the men's segment. Image source: Michael Kors. As if gobbling up market share in Coach's core women's business wasn't enough,...
View ArticleReap Fast-Growing Dividends From Deere and Cummins
Filed under: Investing Source: Deere.com. Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you. If you'd like to add some industrial companies to your portfolio...
View ArticleHow Molycorp Went From Hero to Goat
Filed under: Investing The rise and fall of Molycorp , and other rare earth mineral stocks, has been a caution tale for investors speculating on high-potential and high-risk stocks. When China reduced...
View ArticleDow Recovers, WWE Advances, and Tile Shop's Sell-Off Worsens
Filed under: Investing Stocks headed into the weekend on a peaceful note today, ending in mostly positive territory. A struggling Portuguese bank, believe it or not, spooked investors yesterday, as a...
View ArticleWill Going Upscale Be a Catalyst for AMC Entertainment Stock?
Filed under: Investing A $600 million bet on premium theater seats might just pay off for holders of AMC Entertainment stock, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video. In a recent...
View ArticleDoes Size Trump Strategy at General Electric Company?
Filed under: Investing General Electric is currently the ninth-largest company in the world based on its market capitalization. Yes, it's a massive organization, but GE's management team thinks about...
View ArticleWhy Amazon.com, Aruba Networks, and Westmoreland Coal Soared Today
Filed under: Investing On Friday, the stock market largely repeated its performance from the previous day, albeit without quite as much fanfare. Like yesterday, stocks initially posted losses, with...
View ArticleStocks on Our Radar: The Container Store
Filed under: Investing "So many of our fellow retailers [have been] experiencing a retail funk." That was the actual language used by The Container Store's CEO, Kip Tindell, to describe the difficulty...
View ArticleThe PC Is Back! Or Is It?
Filed under: Investing After years of declines, Gartner expects PC shipments to grow again in 2015. While that's good news for related stocks -- Intel and Microsoft , in particular -- a sustainable...
View ArticleHere's Why MGIC Investment, Rent-A-Center, and Isle of Capri Casinos Tumbled...
Filed under: Investing The stock market generally behaved well Friday, once again getting off to a slow start as investors weighed the latest releases from the beginning of the new earnings season. By...
View ArticleWhy Fastenal Company, Family Dollar Stores Inc., and Chesapeake Energy...
Filed under: Investing All three major U.S. indices finished higher on Friday, reversing a marketwide sell-off that began on Thursday after a Portuguese bank defaulted on some short-term debts. Worries...
View ArticleA Deep Dive Into Tesla Motors Inc: Part II -- Understanding Profits
Filed under: Investing In Part I of our Tesla Motors deep dive, we took a look at what kind of cars Tesla makes, what the Supercharger network is, and the potential of the Gigafactory. To start from...
View ArticleKeurig Green Mountain Is the Amazon of the Beverage Industry
Filed under: Investing You'll have a pretty hard time finding two companies seemingly more different than Keurig Green Mountain and Amazon . While Keurig is the king of the single-serve beverage...
View ArticleHow General Electric and Boeing Quietly Lifted the Dow Friday
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrials gained almost 29 points Friday, limiting their losses for the week to 125 points. While that might not sound like a good result, many investors breathed...
View ArticleWhy Amazon.com and Lorillard Soared Today
Filed under: Investing With earnings season ready to go full tilt next week, stocks finished modestly higher today as fears of a banking collapse in Portugal faded. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
View ArticleHere's What Microsoft Will Look Like in 12 Months
Filed under: Investing U.S. markets managed to close out the week on a winning note, with the benchmark S&P 500 rising 0.1% on Friday, while the narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.2%....
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