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Caterpillar reported mixed second-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning. The heavy equipment company said it has seen no evidence of an upturn in the mining business.
Posting better-than-expected results for the most recent quarter, along with an improved earnings outlook for the full year, could not halt the recent slide in shares of United Technologies.
General Electric was maintained as Buy with a $29 price target at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, with the firm saying that the fundamentals are better than sentiment would suggest.
Honeywell International reported better-than-expected second-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Friday morning. The conglomerate also revised its full-year guidance.
General Electric reported second-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Friday morning and announced the date of the initial public offering of its North American retail finance business.
General Electric is set to report earnings in the very early hours of Friday morning. Why interpreting GE earnings and factoring in guidance could be much more difficult for the next few quarters.
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govWarren Buffett has never really been a big seller of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) stock. Still, it has been well telegraphed that the shares in Mr. Buffett’s...
Wikimedia CommonsCaterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has been a massive surprise so far in 2014. Things looked very bad at the start of 2014, and this DJIA stock was among the biggest losers in 2013. But...
Standard & Poor's has affirmed its AA/A-1+ ratings on Berkshire Hathaway, but where the call gets interesting is that S&P moved its Negative outlook up to Stable.
General Electric managed to outbid its competitors, appease a socialist government and get what it wanted all at the same time Sunday. The Alstom deal is GE's largest ever.
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, said in late April that he was suing the U.S. Air Force for awarding an exclusive contract for 36 rocket launches to a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed...
Danaher is already close to an all-time high, and now there is some talk that the diversified conglomerate will be broken up. Several reports are driving interest here.
Caterpillar has had a much better performance for its investors in 2014 than the pundits might have guessed. In fact, shares were up about 17.5% prior to Tuesday.
ThinkstockDemand for gold jewelry in the first quarter reached its highest level since the initial quarter of 2005, as price drops and demand in China spurred the increase. Much of this was...
Wikimedia CommonsGeneral Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) $16.9 billion bid for the power division of France’s Alstom has not gone down well with the government of French President François Hollande....