Why Horizontal Drilling Is Such a Game-Changer for America
Filed under: Investing Photo credit: Flickr/nestorgalina "America has a long history of achieving the impossible. We defeated the British. We landed on the moon. We invented the Internet. And now we...
View ArticleThis Week in Biotech
Filed under: Investing With the SPDR S&P Biotech Index up 40% over the trailing-12-month period, it's evident that investment dollars are willingly flowing into the biotech sector. Keeping that in...
View ArticleCan Industrial Biotech Fuel the Pentagon?
Filed under: Investing The Navy's F/A-18F Super Hornet strike fighter flew on a 50/50 blend of biofuel and conventional fuel. The stunt earned it the nickname "Green Hornet." Source: U.S. Navy. Energy...
View ArticleWill Al Qaeda's Legion of Doom Destroy America's Economy?
Filed under: Investing Surgically implanted bombs, the most serious threats the U.S. has seen in years, and Al-Qaeda "chatter" similar to what was seen right before 9/11 are just some of the threats...
View ArticleConfusing Overconfidence With Laziness
Filed under: Investing There's little doubt that the average investor would be better off buying passive exchange-traded funds than individual stocks. Studies have shown that most people trade stocks...
View ArticleWho Wants to Buy Rio Tinto's Mines?
Filed under: Investing Iron ore miner Rio Tinto is finding out how difficult it can be to negotiate from a position of weakness. As it tries to unload assets to shore up its financial position, buyers...
View ArticleStan Lee Spills on the Next Big Marvel Movie
Filed under: Investing Does Walt Disney's failure to talk much about new additions to its Marvel movie slate at San Diego Comic-Con last month mean the studio is having trouble identifying new...
View ArticleMicrosoft Attacks Google, Again
Filed under: Investing Microsoft is using its Scroogled.com domain to take jabs at Google again. Google's Gmail recently began serving ads in its revamped inbox feed, and Microsoft's letting Big G have...
View ArticleDendreon's Dive Leads the Biotech Sector's Weeklong Fall
Filed under: Investing Biotech's the biggest boom-or-bust business on the market, with regulatory approvals and clinical trial results routinely sending stocks hurtling up or down by significant...
View ArticleTyson Has a Beef With Industry's Doping Problem
Filed under: Investing No longer wanting to be the A-Rod of the cattle industry, meat processor Tyson Foods said beginning next month it will stop buying cattle that were fed the performance-enhancing...
View ArticleFull Steam Ahead for Huntington Ingalls
Filed under: Investing In a weak week for the Dow, shares of America's second-biggest warship-builder, Huntington Ingalls , largely dodged the downturn. Indeed, Huntington Ingalls shares ended the week...
View ArticleIs Tesla the New Apple?
Filed under: Investing I struck a chord earlier this week, and it appears to be a B-flat. I stated that General Motors' move to slash prices on its Chevy Volt on Monday by $5,000 -- hot on the heels of...
View ArticleLast Week's Worst Performing Dow Components
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a loss for the first time since the third week of June, as the index fell 232 points, or 1.48%, this past week. The blue-chip average now...
View ArticleDon't Wait Until 2014 to Understand Obamacare
Filed under: Investing Next year will be the year. Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, was passed back in 2010, the most significant parts of the major...
View ArticleUnpopular Opinion: McDonald's Is Overrated
Filed under: Investing Burger flipper McDonald's reported that July same-store sales rose 1.6% in the U.S., with a 0.7% increase globally, keeping the stock near the $100 mark, a tight range it has...
View ArticleIs Amazon a Threat to Costco?
Filed under: Investing In the following video, the Fool's Austin Smith chats with Craig Jelinek, Costco's new CEO. Jelinek joined the company as a warehouse manager in 1984 and quickly rose to become a...
View ArticleTesla Earnings Sliced and Diced: Here's the Story
Filed under: Investing On Wednesday evening, Tesla released its second-quarter 2013 earnings -- sending the stock soaring 14% in the next day's trading. Investors were probably pleased with the...
View ArticleMeet the App That Tries to Fix Network TV
Filed under: Investing Network TV is in trouble, and Viggle isn't likely to help, says Fool contributor Tim Beyers in the following video.For those who haven't heard of it, Viggle is a smartphone app...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Nintendo, and Sony Have a Problem
Filed under: Investing Microsoft probably thought that the Xbox One would be a slam dunk. Its Xbox 360 has been the top-selling console in this country, every single month, for more than two years....
View ArticleEli Lilly's Earnings Made Easy
Filed under: Investing Midsummer is considered prime beach season, but investors know that, more importantly, it's second-quarter earnings season. With that in mind, this episode of The Motley Fool's...
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