General Motors Declares Dividend for First Time Since 2008
Filed under: Investing General Motors' headquarters in Detroit. Photo credit: GM. Things have been changing quickly for General Motors after the U.S. Treasury finished selling off the last of its...
View ArticleIs Coca-Cola About to Make a Monster Acquisition?
Filed under: Investing Coca-Cola's stock price lagged the market by a considerable amount over the last year due to flagging carbonated soft drink, or CSD, sales. There may be an antidote to...
View ArticleJazz Pharmaceuticals Isn't Tired of Spending Money
Filed under: Investing Jazz Pharmaceuticals, which spent nearly $1 billion buying orphan drug maker Gentium in December, just inked another deal to lock up Aerial BioPharma's promising mid stage...
View ArticleIntuitive Surgical Surges, but Are There More Roadblocks Ahead?
Filed under: Investing The past few days have been dizzying for investors in the maker of the daVinci Surgical Robotic System, Intuitive Surgical . Source: Intuitive Surgical. On Friday, the Journal of...
View ArticleAnother Reason to Like Comcast Stock Right Now
Filed under: Investing Thanks to strong performances from The Blacklist and Grimm, among others, NBC is becoming a more meaningful contributor to Comcast's business, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in...
View ArticleCan Qihoo 360 Close the Revenue Gap With Baidu?
Filed under: Investing Baidu has seen excellent growth since Google exited the Chinese market in 2010. In the last 18 months or so, though, Qihoo 360 has emerged as the No. 2 search engine in China....
View ArticleCIGNA Corporation's Diversification Should Deliver Above-Average Growth
Filed under: Investing Cigna is an odd duck in the managed care world. Managed care is certainly about managing costs, but it is also about pricing risk; Cigna's approach appears to be avoiding risk...
View ArticleFlu Season Peaking? Here's What It Means for CVS Caremark Corporation,...
Filed under: Investing The flu is in full swing, with 35 states experiencing widespread activity and 20 states reporting high levels of flu-like illness, according to last week's FluView report from...
View Article3 Reasons to Buy Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Filed under: Investing Gilead Sciences is one of the hottest names in health care this year, after receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, for its game-changing hepatitis...
View ArticleWill UnitedHealth Earnings Top WellPoint and Humana?
Filed under: Investing UnitedHealth Group will release its quarterly report on Thursday, and investors have been pleased with the stock's performance over the past year. With the arrival of the Patient...
View ArticleWas Celgene Corporation's Preview Really $2 Billion Worth of Disappointment?
Filed under: Investing Mr. Market didn't much like what Celgene had to say on Monday -- and promptly shaved around $2 billion off of the big biotech's market cap. But was Celgene's message at the J.P....
View ArticleHow to Know if Your CEO Is Dumping Stock
Filed under: Investing How can you tell if the CEO of a company you've invested in is dumping stock? Check the Form 4, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video. For those unfamiliar, the...
View ArticleArcos Dorados, Dangdang Swing Big As Holiday Sales Impress
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 ArticleGalena Biopharma, Dr. Reddy's Sign NeuVax Licensing Pact for India
Filed under: Investing Galena Biopharma has forged a partnership in India for its NeuVax breast cancer vaccine. The company announced that it is teaming up with Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in a strategic...
View ArticleWhy Silicon Graphics International Corp. 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 ArticleWhy Textbook Publishers Are Better Investments Than Their Trade Publishing Peers
Filed under: Investing Book publishers are hardly the same, and can easily be classified based on the type of books they sell and who they sell to. These differences in product type and customer...
View ArticleHere's How Wells Fargo Managed to Set Record Earnings Again
Filed under: Investing When it comes to producing consistently good results, Wells Fargo is the poster child. The bank reported fourth-quarter numbers today, and long-term investors were surely...
View ArticleWhy Tesla Motors Inc. Stock Heated Up
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 ArticleFool's Gold Report: Metals Fall on Stock Market Gains, Regulatory Scrutiny;...
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 ArticleVIVUS, Inc. and Aetna Inc's New Weight Loss Plan
Filed under: Investing Shares of VIVUS were up nearly 5% yesterday, after the announced a deal with Aetna for a weight loss program for the big insurer's members. It combines both a drug and lifestyle...
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