Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today a strategic alliance with Choice, a Brazilian technology company, to integrate and jointly market a non-technical loss (NTL) solution to utilities around the world, with a strong focus in Brazil. Show More Summary
ByRobert Wagner: The Fed minutes were released today, and it triggered a sell-off in everything -- well, at least everything that Yahoo Finance tracks on its front page. Click to enlarge image. The S&P 500, Dow 30, Nasdaq, 10-year bonds, gold, and oil were all down. Show More Summary
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated Names Dave Anderson Interim Chief Financial Officer to Replace Don Kimble COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ: HBAN; www.huntington.com) announced today that Dave Anderson was named interim chief financial officer (CFO). Show More Summary
Huntington Bancshares to Present at the Sanford Bernstein 29th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ: HBAN; www.huntington.com) will be participating at the...Show More Summary
The U.S. toy market is dominated by two companies: Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) and Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT). It’s extremely likely that you’ve come across one or more of the toys and games these two companies produce and market. Hasbro has a product portfolio that most consumers would easily recognize: games including Monopoly and Scrabble, and toy brands including [...]
PetSmart Reports Results for the First Quarter 2013 Q1 Earnings up 15% to $0.98 per Share; Comp Sales of 3.5%; Total Sales up 5.0%; Comp Transactions up 0.8% PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PetSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) today reported earnings of $0.98 per share, up 15% compared to $0.85 per share in the first quarter of 2012. Show More Summary
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), the American software giant founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, is arguably the most overlooked tech stock in the market due to the perceived maturity of its Windows and Office product lines. Formerly the world’s largest company, the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) name no longer carries the luster it once [...]
Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. Announces Investigation Of SoundBite Communications, Inc. Buyout WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rigrodsky & Long, P.A.: Do you own shares of SoundBite Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ GM: SDBT )? Did you purchase...Show More Summary
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) can certainly be known as a social network that has often advocated for social causes and social activism, and it has been a valuable tool in many of those areas, including calls for blood donation in the wake of natural disasters in other parts of the world and calls against censorship and for [...]
"The taper" is coming. And the Fed gave us clues as to when it'll arrive.
First the scoreboard:
Dow: 15,307, -80.4 pts, -0.5%S&P 500: 1,655, -13.8 pts, -0.8%NASDAQ: 3,463, -38.8 pts, -1.1%
And now the top stories:
In recent weeks, there has been chatter about a tapering of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program. Show More Summary
Gaming stocks have had a fabulous start to 2013, with each of the top five publicly traded U.S. companies beating the S&P 500. Caesars Entertainment Corp (NASDAQ:CZR) is leading the pack after announcing the spinoff of its “growth assets,” and the four companies with operations in Macau have made slow and steady gains. LVS Total Return [...]
While a lot of people are excited about the Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Glass project, it would not be a major game changer from a financial point of view, at least for the short-term. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is an advertising company. According to its latest earnings report, the company gets 92.7% of its revenue from its core [...]
If Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shareholders were banking on the company revolutionizing the TV market, they ought to reconsider their investment thesis. On Tuesday, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) fired a preemptive shot at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), affirming its dedication to control the living room. The Xbox One “What if a single device could provide all of your [...]
With the all the troubles that the big box department stores like J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) and Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) have had over the years, investors are better off focusing on the smaller specialty retailers. These retailers are focused and don’t need new management to implement possible turnarounds. I’m a fan of companies [...]
It’s a well-known fact that Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) Blackberry has been reporting losses and has belonged to the group of mobile laggards for quite some time now. But its recent OS 10 launch has bolstered investors’ confidence, and even improved its sales–but is this growth sustainable? Industry Outlook The smartphone industry grew by [...]
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has been working hard on increasing revenue and user engagement, which in many ways do go hand-in-hand. In recent months the company has been finding itself making some real inroads in the mobile space, where Facebook claims three of every five users access the social network from a mobile device. Another angle [...]
The big news this week was Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)‘s $1.1 billion acquisition of micro-blogging site Tumblr. Tumblr has grown its user base rapidly since it was founded in 2006, and today the site has over 100 million registered blogs, which have posted a combined 50 billion blog posts. Web traffic is through the roof, with 184 [...]
If you thought it was impressive and unsettling when Defense Distributed manufactured the “Liberator,” a functional 3-D printed plastic gun, earlier this month with the help of an $8,000 Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) industrial 3-D printer, wait until you see what a hobbyist created with an off-the-shelf, $1,725 consumer 3-D printer and $25 of materials. Dubbed the [...]
It is often said that one of the most important things to a boxer is their corner man. One of the primary jobs of a corner man is to assist the fighter through instruction. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) no longer has one of the best corner men of all time in Steve Jobs, so how will they [...]
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs may be away from us, but Apple still. Does not. Like Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG). OK, so maybe the rhetoric from the two sides has dissipated somewhat since Jobs passed and there have been indications of some level of respect for each other, it is pretty evident that, at least [...]