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Is It an iPad Christmas After All?
Filed under: Investing "It's going to be an iPad Christmas," Apple CEO Tim Cook predicted during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call. Data from two recent studies seems to back Cook's statement...
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The Best News for Homeowners Since 2007
Filed under: Investing Photo: J E Theriot According to the latest news from the Federal Reserve, households everywhere can now breathe a little easier. Reason to celebrate For the first time in six...
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Has SodaStream Reached a Point of Opportunity?
Filed under: Investing For the first time since April, shares of SodaStream have fallen below $50. While there has been no news to create the fall, SodaStream remains heavily shorted. Thus it tends to...
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Here's Why Oil Prices Might Rise in 2014
Filed under: Investing Over the past few years a glut of oil has built up at Cushing, Oklahoma, which has depressed West Texas Intermediate, or WTI, oil prices. Midstream companies saw a major...
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2015 Ford Mustang: Under the Hood With Ford's Chief Engineer
Filed under: Investing The scene outside Ford's media event in New York when we arrived. That's the current Mustang on the left, and the all-new 2015 Mustang on the right. The Mustang's chief engineer,...
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Your Stocks Are Fine -- You're the Problem
Filed under: Investing If there's one thing we've learned over the last few decades, it's that humans are hardwired to be horrible investors. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the vast majority of...
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Scary Chinese Space Robots Invade the Moon!
Filed under: Investing Don't look now, but I think China just started a new space race. Is it just me, or does the moon look especially ominous tonight? Source: Wikimedia Commons. On Saturday, Dec. 14,...
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Will Wearable Technology Be the Next Big Innovation in Health Care?
Filed under: Investing Health-care spending in the United States is hovering at around 18% of GDP, and the industry is facing pressure to quickly become more efficient. Most debates on this topic tend...
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Don't Let This Mutual Fund Move Trick You
Filed under: Investing In a strong bull market in 2013, most mutual funds have performed fairly well. But as the end of the year approaches, some mutual funds resort to a sneaky trick to try to...
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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Offers Unique Advertising Model
Filed under: Investing The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show aired on CBS on Dec. 10 bringing in 9.7 million viewers -- up a tick from last year. What makes this particular infomercial different from the...
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Cheap Stocks for 2014: Tech's Best Buys
Filed under: Investing Looking for a deep-discount value play in the tech sector? The market is littered with cheap stocks for 2014. Some tech stocks are cheap for good reason while others seem...
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Are Activist Hedge Fund Shareholders Just Throwing Tantrums?
Filed under: Investing Activist shareholders are getting restless, but is it really a desire for change that's motivating these moves, or more a need to have their egos stroked? In recent weeks we've...
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Are Natural Gas Exports Bad for America?
Filed under: Investing Domestic consumption of oil has fallen off by more than 10% over the past decade, while U.S. production has increased more than 30%. Natural gas demand has increased 6%, largely...
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MasterCard's New Capital Plan: The Good, the Neutral, and the Ugly
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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Will VeriFone Earnings Invite a Buyout Bid From Visa or MasterCard?
Filed under: Investing VeriFone Systems will release its quarterly report on Tuesday, and investors have started to believe in the electronic-payments company once again. Even though VeriFone earnings...
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Obamacare Medicaid Enrollment: Too Good to Be True?
Filed under: Investing In the midst of the dismal enrollment numbers announced so far for the Obamacare health exchanges, Medicaid has stood as the silver lining in the clouds. Recent reports about...
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The Biggest Victims of the Patent Cliff in 2014
Filed under: Investing The patent cliff has been the biggest challenge facing the pharmaceutical industry as of late. It's already taken a huge bite out of some big pharma firms' financials: Top...
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Can Mobile Gaming Help Save Lives?
Filed under: Investing For many years, the health-care industry failed to successfully integrate gaming into its strategy to improve patient outcomes. There have been some innovative attempts in the...
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Why Twitter Shares Sank Today
Filed under: Investing While Fools should generally take the opinion of Wall Street with a grain of salt, it's not a bad idea to take a closer look at particularly stock-shaking upgrades and downgrades...
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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Pfizer Team Up
Filed under: Investing The Healthcare Diagnostics subsidiary of Siemens has signed a fresh deal with one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. Siemens announced today that the unit has...
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