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2 Takeaways From Microsoft's Earnings Meltdown
Filed under: Investing Microsoft's red-hot 2013 hit a major roadblock recently, when its hugely disappointing Q2 earnings announcement sent shares sinking by double digits. To be sure, there wasn't a...
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Carmakers Care About Your Safety. They Really Do.
Filed under: Investing The Connected Car Conference -- or C3, if you wish to get your geek on -- was a big hit at CE Week in New York City. Thanks largely to navigation and entertainment apps on Apple...
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Another Refiner Sets Its Sights on an MLP Spinoff
Filed under: Investing Phillips 66 and its master limited partnership Phillips 66 Partners have made the headlines recently, because of how high PSXP climbed during its first day of trading. It isn't...
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Ford's Fusion and F-150 Will Drive More Profit Gains
Filed under: Investing Ford's hot-selling Fusion should see even more sales gains this fall. Photo credit: Ford Motor. This past week, Ford reported a second-quarter profit of $1.2 billion, a strong...
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Can Student Loans Crush Big Banks?
Filed under: Investing In this segment from Thursday's edition of The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, banking analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss the...
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Are Canadian Oil Sands More Prone to Disastrous Spills?
Filed under: Investing A lot of people don't look favorably on crude oil produced in Alberta's oil sands. In addition to the fact that oil sands production spews greater quantities of greenhouse gases...
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Can the U.S. Really Become the World's Top Oil Producer?
Filed under: Investing Photo credit:Â Flickr/Paul Lowry. Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm has a dream that one day the United States will be energy independent. What's truly remarkable about the...
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Oil Prices Heading Higher! Try This Approach
Filed under: Investing Photo Credit: Flickr/Don Hankins As an energy writer, the most common question I get from friends and family concerns the price of gasoline. Just the other day I was talking to...
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Despite a Few Loose Wires, Boeing's a Bargain
Filed under: Investing Another week, another problem with Boeing's troubled commercial airplanes program. As you've probably heard by now, inspections centering on a Honeywell -manufactured emergency...
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Defense News Roundup: Prepping Planes, Shifting Satellites, and Fixing Ships
Filed under: Investing The U.S. military has a reputation as a somewhat secretive organization. But in one respect, at least, the Pentagon is one of the most "open" of our government agencies. Every...
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The Dow's 4 Most Impressive Dividend Growth Stocks
Filed under: Investing Many investors seek to buy the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials because they represent the cream of the crop of the U.S. stock market. Yet all 30 stocks in the Dow also share...
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3 Stocks for a Royal Baby Boy
Filed under: Investing An 8-pound, 6-ounce package captured the world's attention this week. Prince George Alexander Louis, the newest heir to the British throne, arrived Monday at St. Mary's Hospital,...
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Bank Investors: 12 Must-Watch Announcements and Events to Watch This Week
Filed under: Investing In this series, we'll explore the data announcements and events that may affect the performance of bank stocks during the upcoming week. With earnings season over for the Big...
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Can Mercedes-Benz Pump Up Aston Martin?
Filed under: Investing The Aston Martin DB9 is arguably one of the world's best-looking cars, but its V12 engine, originally designed by Ford in the 1990s, is getting long in the tooth. Photo credit:...
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Verizon Takes Shape, and Illumina Steps Up
Filed under: Investing On this day in economic and business history ... The company now known as Verizon was first created when Bell Atlantic announced its acquisition of rival telecom GTE on July 28,...
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Now More Than Ever, Size Matters for Stock Returns
Filed under: Investing Investors can't complain about the performance of the S&P 500 so far this year, with gains of nearly 20% since 2013 began looking especially impressive when you consider that...
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Banks Are Scared of Their Own Investors
Filed under: Investing When making an investment decision, prudent investors seek to understand exactly how a company makes its money and what risks, current and future, could derail the company's...
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Will "Black Sails" Help Starz Navigate TV's Choppy Waters?
Filed under: Investing First, Netflix decided it wanted to HBO. Now, Starz wants a piece of the action with an original program called Black Sails, due to air next January. Starz pulled out the stops...
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Why CECO Environmental's Earnings Are Outstanding
Filed under: Investing Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very...
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Why Bristow Group's Earnings May Not Be So Hot
Filed under: Investing Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very...
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