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Courtesy 3M Company3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the conglomerate posted diluted earnings per share (EPS)...
ThinkstockFactory output across Europe continued to collapse in November, which will cause economists to extend the period during which they expect most nations in the region to stay in recession, as...
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) is set to kick off earnings season for the fourth quarter after the close on Tuesday. This matters more than any of us would like, mainly...
ThinkstockNuclear commercial services firm EnergySolutions Inc. (NYSE: ES) announced this morning that it is being acquired by a subsidiary of private equity firm Energy Capital Partners II LLC in a...
ThinkstockMarkit issued its year-end eurozone PMI data. The summary of the report: Data collected 5–14 December. • Final Eurozone Manufacturing PMI at 46.1 in December (flash estimate 46.3) •...
ThinkstockInvestors abandoned shares of Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: SWHC) and Sturm, Ruger & Co. (NYSE: RGR) after the Newtown shootings. Private equity firm Cerberus Capital...
courtesy General Electric Co.For the fifth time in three years, General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is raising its quarterly dividend. This time by $0.02 to $0.19 a share, almost double its level...
Mark Hirschey / Wikimedia CommonsWarren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) apparently is living up to at least some of its former buyback ambitions that the company...
After reporting a strong PMI figure for China, Markit posted slightly positive numbers for the United Kingdom, a sign that its austerity, unemployment and lack of demand for goods and services from...
Timken Co. (NYSE: TKR) has been in business for more than 100 years, making bearings and steel for a variety of industrial products. Now the company’s largest single shareholder, activist firm...
ThinkstockIn an announcement of its annual investor conference today, Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) said that it expects the retail market for LCD TV sets and other consumer electronics devices to improve...
ThinkstockOne way to cushion the shareholders’ presumed fall of the fiscal cliff is to distribute some cash now, before the tax on dividends jumps. Westlake Chemical Corp. (NYSE: WLK) is the latest...
ThinkstockIn the third calendar quarter of 2012, the share of corporate bonds that were downgraded totaled 1.3% of issuances, flat with the share downgraded in the second quarter. The share that was...
Mark Hirschey / Wikimedia CommonsBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings. Many changes had been made in...
thinkstockSiemens A.G. (NYSE: SI) released strong earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter and outlined plans to lower costs by six billion euros by 2014. At its current pace and with strategic plans...