5 Things to Watch This Week: Sequester, Energy Drinks, Groupon, Consumer...
Filed under: Earnings, Retail, Best Buy, Food & Beverage, Materials & Construction, Wall Street WatchFrom the country's leading home improvement chain reaching into its orange apron for fresh...
View ArticleHome Depot Sees Huge Sales Boost From Hurricane Sandy
Filed under: Earnings, Retail, Materials & Construction, Home & GardenNatural disasters can be good for business -- if you're in the business of helping people rebuild their homes.We were...
View ArticleSears Shares Rise on Solid Results
Filed under: Earnings, Retail, Industry NewsSears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) reported fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The department store operator...
View Article5 Winners and Losers of the Week in Business
Filed under: Company News, JC Penney, Earnings, Barnes & Noble, Food & Beverage, TargetFrom a free music website that's trying to encourage more of its users to pay to an energy drink maker...
View ArticleWarren Buffett’s Annual Letter Calls Year With 45% Profit Jump Subpar
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Warren BuffettOMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Investor Warren Buffett says last year was "subpar" for his company even after posting a 45 percent increase in profit, because the...
View Article11 Must Read Weekend Stock Stories For Monday
Filed under: Earnings, Market News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Industry News, Economy24/7 Wall St. has tracked many stocks on the move in the last week. Now it is the weekend and this can be...
View ArticleStaples’ Dividend Hike Cannot Hide the Problems
Filed under: Earnings, Retail, Industry NewsStaples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the office supplies...
View ArticleSolar Stocks Get a Jolt (TSL, STP, SPWR, FSLR)
Filed under: Energy, EarningsAnalysts at Raymond James raised their ratings on several solar stocks, saying that the risk of owning these stocks is now in balance with the potential reward. The four...
View ArticleBofA/ML RIC Report Great For Stocks, Not For Gold & Bonds
Filed under: Technology, Earnings, Real Estate, Market News, Banking, Commodities & Futures, Economy, InvestingBank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is out with its so-called RIC-Report for its...
View ArticleFedEx Earnings Fall on Fewer Airfreight Shipments
Filed under: Earnings, Aerospace & Defense, Transportation & Logistics, Stocks, InvestingWilfredo Lee/APBy DAVID KOENIG DALLAS -- FedEx said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit fell 31...
View ArticleHigher Sales Rev-Up Harley-Davidson’s Quarterly Profit
Filed under: Earnings, Transportation, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, StocksJustin Sullivan/Getty Images MILWAUKEE -- Harley-Davidson says its first-quarter net profit rose almost 30 percent as it...
View ArticleExxon’s Quarterly Profit Edges Up as Energy Production Slumps
Filed under: Energy, Company News, Earnings, Oil & Gas Industry, StocksReed Saxon/AP Exxon Mobil said Thursday its quarterly profit edged up, helped by higher earnings in its chemicals business but...
View ArticleMarket Minute: Verizon Bidding to Control Wireless Venture with Vodafone
Filed under: Earnings, Market News, Telecommunications Getty Images A battle for Verizon Wireless, and earnings that will move the market today. The Dow Industrials fell 43 points yesterday, while both...
View ArticleUPS’ Quarterly Profit Rises on Higher Consumer Spending
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Labor, Transportation & Logistics, StocksPaul Sakuma/AP DALLAS -- Consumers who kept spending after the holidays ended helped boost profit at UPS. United Parcel...
View ArticleBristol-Myers Earnings Plunge as Sales of Plavix Plummet
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Consumer Goods, Drug Companies, StocksThomas S. England/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBy LINDA A. JOHNSON Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb on Thursday posted a 45 percent...
View ArticleHigher Cigarette Prices Help Ignite Altria’s Quarterly Profit
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Tobacco, Stocks, ProductsPaul Sakuma/APBy MICHAEL FELBERBAUM RICHMOND, Va. -- Marlboro maker Altria Group's first-quarter profit rose about 16 percent as it...
View ArticleAmazon May Lose Hundreds of Millions, but Things Are Looking Up
Filed under: Amazon.com, Earnings, Retail, ShoppingReed Saxon, AP Amazon just announced another quarter of tiny profits, and says it expects to lose as much as $340 million this quarter. But things are...
View ArticleStocks Edge Higher as Job Market Improves
Filed under: Earnings, Market NewsAssociated Press By CHRISTINA REXRODE NEW YORK (AP) - The engines driving the stock market were more tepid than turbocharged Thursday, but they were enough to help...
View ArticleHonda’s Quarterly Profit Picks Up Despite China Woes
Filed under: Earnings, Transportation, Automotive Industry, Honda, StocksMatt Cardy/Getty ImagesBy YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO -- Honda's fiscal fourth quarter profit rose nearly 6 percent as the Japanese...
View ArticleChrysler’s 1Q Profit Tumbles 65% As It Readies New Models
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Chrysler, Transportation, Automotive IndustryPier Marco Tacca/Getty ImagesChrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne.By TOM KRISHER DETROIT -- Chrysler's first-quarter...
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