The Future of 3-D Printing With General Electric
Filed under: Investing The future of additive manufacturing has many naysayers and advocates. Many believe it will change the face of manufacturing in the near future, while others think the technology...
View ArticleBank of America Attempts to Show It Has a Conscience
Filed under: Investing You probably don't often see Bank of America's name linked with the term "socially responsible," but the concept isn't as far out as you might think. For the past few years, the...
View ArticleHP's Strange Fall: What Should You Do?
Filed under: Investing Shares of Hewlett-Packard plunged on Thursday following the company's somewhat disappointing Q3 earnings report and guidance. HP reported adjusted EPS of $0.86 on revenue of...
View ArticleThe Dow's Top 3 Stocks This Week
Filed under: Investing U.S. stock markets struggled along this week without much of a catalyst to get traders bidding shares higher or lower. Economic data showed more weakness in housing, new jobless...
View ArticleFord Is Still Angry About Japan's Yen
Filed under: Investing Ford's strong new Fusion has been stealing sales from Toyota's Camry all year -- but now Toyota is in a prime position to push back, thanks to the Japanese government. Photo...
View ArticleHow to Take Great Macro Pics With Your iPhone
Filed under: Investing One of Apple's huge competitive advantages is its ecosystem. Thousands of independent software and hardware developers are working hard every day to make great products for iOS...
View ArticleAeroVironment's Drones Fly Longer, Farther
Filed under: Investing The latest in drone and robotics technology was on display recently at the world's largest unmanned systems exhibition in Washington, D.C. California-based AeroVironment , which...
View ArticleCan the 2014 Chevy Spark EV Electrify GM's Drive to Go Green?
Filed under: Investing Photo credit: Chevrolet, General Motors is often blamed for killing the electric car in the early 1990s. However, it could now be said that GM is about to supercharge the...
View ArticleObamacare's Doctor Dilemma
Filed under: Investing America has a looming problem -- and Obamacare is going to make it worse. That's the conclusion from two former U.S. Senate majority leaders -- one a Democrat and the other a...
View Article1 More Dividend Stock Heads Away From Hydro
Filed under: Investing Integrys announced this week that it's selling off one of its hydro dams, marking yet another utility's unease with hydroelectric power. Let's take a closer look to see whether...
View ArticleIs Toyota Catching Up to Ford?
Filed under: Investing Ford's hot-selling Fusion Hybrid has stolen lots of sales from Toyota in 2013. But now Ford's factory is struggling to keep up with demand, and that could cost the Blue Oval....
View ArticleLast Week's Best and Worst Dow Components Have a Lot in Common
Filed under: Investing This past week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average's best-performing stock was Microsoft , which rose 9.27%, while the worst-performing component was Hewlett-Packard , down 15.21%....
View ArticleAre Stocks Too High?
Filed under: Investing Both of the major stock market indexes have not only recovered from the financial crisis. They have proceeded to new heights. Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down...
View Article5 Stocks Growing Their Dividends by 15% Per Year
Filed under: Investing Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock's current yield, but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends. That's because strong businesses that...
View ArticleDo Health Care Stocks Fall in the Fall?
Filed under: Investing Every investor has heard the old line "sell in May and go away." That wasn't such great advice this year with the S&P 500 index up nearly 5% since the beginning of May. And...
View ArticleThis Week in Biotech
Filed under: Investing With the SPDR S&P Biotech Index up 37% over the trailing-12-month period, it's evident that investment dollars are willingly flowing into the biotech sector. Keeping that in...
View ArticleFTSE Shares That Soared and Plunged This Week
Filed under: Investing LONDON -- It's been a week of two halves for the FTSE 100 , as it slumped 133 points (1.7%) to a low of 6,387 on Wednesday on fears of "tapering" of economic stimulus policies....
View Article7 Largest Oil Spills of All Time
Filed under: Investing Last month, we saw a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico go up in flames. You may not have heard about it, though, because that rig was drilling for natural gas, so the threat of...
View ArticleWhy Uni-Pixel Shares Popped
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 ArticleStrategic Hotels Sets Preferred Dividends
Filed under: Investing Luxury hotel and resort operator Strategic Hotels & Resorts announced today its third-quarter dividend on three series of cumulative redeemable preferred stock. 8.5% Series A...
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