Weekend Box Office Preview: 'Lone Survivor' Set to Overcome 'Hercules'
Filed under: Investing Comcast Universal's Lone Survivor should win this weekend's box office. Image source: Comcast Hercules may be the son of Zeus, but he's no match for a team of four Navy SEALs....
View ArticleWeek's Winners and Losers: Nook Gets Knocked, Google Sets Sail
Filed under: Google, JC Penney, Barnes & Noble, Wall Street Watch, InvestingAP/Jae C. Hong Companies can make brilliant moves, but there are also times when things don't work out quite as planned....
View ArticleTarget's Security Breach Is Bigger Than Expected
Filed under: Investing Shares of retail-giant Target are down once again today after it announced that its credit card security breach is worse than originally expected. According to Motley Fool One...
View ArticleU.S. to Dump HealthCare.gov Contractor CGI
Filed under: Health Care, U.S. Government, Internet, Barack Obama, Health InsuranceU.S. Department of Health and Human Services/AP WASHINGTON -- The federal government will end its contract with CGI...
View ArticlePainfully Slow Jobs Growth Drags Down the Dow
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...
View ArticleFriday's Top Upgrades (and Downgrades)
Filed under: Investing This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines feature new buy...
View Article1 Thing Investors Are Forgetting About REITs
Filed under: Investing If there's one thing to never forget about REITs, it's that you have alternatives. I'm not talking about the broad index, or even a REIT ETF. I'm talking about different parts of...
View ArticleWhat The L: Can Staples "Make More Happen" in 2014?
Filed under: Investing Staples had a nice run with its most recent marketing campaign. You might not realize this, but "That Was Easy" lasted approximately a decade. It was also a fitting campaign...
View ArticleWhy Potbelly Has More Upside Than Noodles & Company
Filed under: Investing In 2012, 49% of all sandwiches consumed in America were bought at restaurants rather than made at home -- a 5% increase from 2010. Potbelly hopes to capitalize on this trend and...
View ArticleFord Motor Co. Posts Record Performance in ASEAN Region, While Automakers...
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.15% in late trading, after U.S. employers hired the fewest amount of workers in nearly three years for December. Nonfarm payrolls rose...
View ArticleWhy Bazaarvoice, Inc. Shares Bombed
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 ArticleThis Natural Gas Byproduct Could Make You Rich
Filed under: Investing Many industries are benefiting from growing natural gas production and persistently low prices. Among the winners is the methanol industry, including producers such as...
View ArticleWhy DryShips, Inc. Stock's Crash Today Should Leave You Cold
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 Article3 Reasons U.S. Auto Sales Will Remain Robust in 2014
Filed under: Investing Despite reporting disappointing sales results for December, the U.S. auto industry registered its best performance since 2007 in 2013. Not surprisingly, automakers were among the...
View ArticleCan Anything Stop Constellation Brands?
Filed under: Investing Booze giant Constellation Brands is having trouble doing anything wrong. The company, which owns a variety of brands from Corona to Robert Mondavi wines, has seen its stock rise...
View ArticleHow Long Will Hewlett-Packard Give Whitman a Free Pass?
Filed under: Investing Turning Hewlett-Packard around was always going to be a tall order, there's no denying that. The challenges were many and varied when Meg Whitman took the reins as CEO in...
View Article4 Restaurant Companies to Watch: McDonald's, Yum! Brands, Chipotle, and...
Filed under: Investing Looking for some good investment ideas? Consider the restaurant industry, diversifying with different types of restaurant stocks to avoid having all your eggs in one basket....
View ArticleWhy Synnex Corporation Shares Sank
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 ArticleChevron Underperforms a Sagging Dow
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 Article3 Predictions for the New Week
Filed under: Investing I went out on a limb last week, and now it's time to see how that decision played out. I predicted that Apple would move higher on the week. Despite the consumer-tech giant's...
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