3 Lessons Big Pharma Learned From BioMarin in 2013
Filed under: Investing BioMarin taught big biotech companies a thing or two about making money this year. Ā Here are three lessons large competitors likely learned watching BioMarin succeed in treating...
View ArticleStocks in 2014: The Only Prediction Guaranteed to Come True
Filed under: Investing Good news, Foolish investors: Kiplinger's believes that 2014 will offer up another great year of stock returns. According to the company's 2014 investing outlook: "Another year...
View ArticleIs Suncor Energy Destined for Greatness?
Filed under: Investing Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable market-beating...
View ArticleKiOR's CFO Takes a Hike With No Advance Notice
Filed under: Investing KiOR is no stranger to problems. The biofuel company has a history of production well below the estimates it has given shareholders. When Bill Gates made a token investment, it...
View ArticleIs Glassdoor Only for the Extremes?
Filed under: Investing Robert Hohman is co-founder and CEO ofĀ Glassdoor, an online community where employees and job-seekers post anonymous information on salaries, company reviews, interview...
View ArticleIt's Not Different This Time
Filed under: Investing The four most dangerous words in investing are said to be "it's different this time." Someone uses them at the peak of every bubble to justify ignoring lessons of the past.Ā I...
View ArticleWill Russia Kill the International Space Station ... By Accident?
Filed under: Investing On October 4, 1957, Russia became the first nation on earth to put an object in orbit around the earth, when it lofted the 58-cm diameterĀ Sputnik satellite into low-earth orbit....
View ArticleThe 12 Days of Christmas Bust the Budget
Filed under: Investing Every year, PNC Financial Services Group's PNC Wealth Management compiles a clever rundown of how much it could cost to purchase "The Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts for true...
View ArticleTop Restaurant Stocks for 2013
Filed under: Investing With the market leaping higher by 25%, this has been a great year for stock market investors. Of course, individual stock performances varied wildly around that average. Today...
View ArticleStudent Loan Debt Has Just Become Everyone's Problem
Filed under: Investing It's no secret that student loan debt makes it harder for young people to get ahead. It turns out that their burden is even worse than we thought -- and, in fact, it's bad for...
View ArticleWill 2014 Be the Year of Energy Transfer Partners?
Filed under: Investing Now that 2013 is almost behind us, it's time to look ahead to next year. Specifically, what the management team at Energy Transfer Partners has in store for its master limited...
View ArticleIs the 2014 Ford Fusion's Popularity Already Fading?
Filed under: Investing Just a few months ago, Ford's popular Fusion midsize car seemed to be gearing up for a monster 2014. The 2013 Ford Fusion had a great start this year, with deliveries up more...
View ArticleKrispy Kreme Hits No. 20. Can It Keep Going?
Filed under: Investing Krispy Kreme Doughnuts has done it: 20 quarters in a row of positive same-store sales growth. If that's not a sign of a successful turnaround, I don't know what is. In an...
View ArticleHow Costco Saved Thanksgiving
Filed under: Investing Thanksgiving 2013 will likely be remembered as the year that Black Friday took over the holiday, with stores like Wal-Mart StoresĀ opening its doors at 6 p.m. instead of waiting...
View ArticleBerkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett's 2013 Year in Review
Filed under: Investing Berkshire Hathaway has had a relatively eventful 2013, with a major acquisition, a few significant stock purchases, and one question that still lingers. Warren Buffett announces...
View ArticleDow 2013: The Best Year Ever for Stocks?
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrials have posted extremely strong performance in 2013, surprising many investors who had expected the average to pull back after four years of gains...
View ArticleAll of the Coal Plants Aren't Being Closed
Filed under: Investing Alpha Natural ResourcesĀ is expecting over 200 coal plants to be shuttered because of increasingly stringent environmental regulations. However, the Illinois Pollution Control...
View ArticleVenezuela Power Outage May Speed Lukoil's Exit
Filed under: Investing Massive power outage recently seen again in Caracas, Venezuela may cause Russia's second largest oil producer Lukoil to seek more stable growth. Considering the company's CEO...
View ArticleYou May Want These Trailers Near Your House
Filed under: Investing NRG Energy's Power2Serve, a 42-foot disaster relief vehicle and 26-foot-long trailer combination, is helping customers charge phones and laptops and access news to keep the...
View ArticleGeekstock: Did Disney Just Take Princess Power to a New Level?
Filed under: Investing Heroines are winning at the box office! The Hunger Games: Catching Fire entered the weekend having already earned an estimated $593.9 million for Lions Gate Entertainment as...
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