Evan Hanson - Author for 24/7 Wall St.
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U.S. auto sales are on the rise, but the rest of the U.S. economy is still pretty sluggish. What’s driving this new-car sales boom?
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After disappointing sale last years, mega-retailers like Wal-Mart and Kroger are rethinking the size of their superstores and testing out much smaller markets. But with everyone scaling back,...
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McDonald's owns breakfast, but lunch is still up for grabs and Starbucks and Dunkin Brands are both hoping to claim it.
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Northrop Grumman won the biggest Defense Department contract of the day. Valued at up to $9.9 billion, Northrop's project is to modernize and support the Air Force's B-2 Stealth Bombers.
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Microsoft plans to release a version of its Office software suite -- optimized for touch screens -- for Google’s Android operating system. As consumers increasingly embrace non-Windows operating...
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The Department of Defense awarded $10.46 billion in defense contracts Tuesday. The winning defense contractors included included Olin Corp., Boeing, and General Dynamics. The non-defense related...
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U.S. auto sales had a strong month in May, with all three of the Detroit automakers posting gains well ahead of analyst estimates. Most of the leading automakers saw substantial gains, but in the key...
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Americans are paying more at the gas pump this week, with the national average price for regular gasoline clocking in at $3.690 per gallon Monday, up $0.016 from a week ago and $0.044 above last year.
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Last week Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, bid $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers -- a price most experts consider way too high. Is this just a vanity purchase or is there a chance...
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The merger between Men's Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank, which was just approved by the Federal Trade Commission, will create the fourth-largest retailer of menswear.
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Google’s Chromebooks, the inexpensive laptops powered by Google’s Chrome operating system, are coming to New Zealand, the Philippines, Norway, Denmark, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Spain and Italy. In...
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Lockheed Martin won a $915 million contract from the Pentagon for work on the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program. The defense company's mission will be to track 'space junk' orbiting the Earth,...
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Apple’s iTunes has become a family affair. On Monday, the tech giant announced a number of upcoming updates to its iOS operating system, iOS 8, including the ability to share iTunes purchases, as...
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Apple unveiled the next iteration of its Mac operating system, OS X, at the 2014 World Wide Developers Conference. OS X Yosemite includes several major new features that make Apple’s desktop...
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Abercrombie and Fitch is making over its Hollister brand in an attempt to bring back the cool young shoppers it chased away. The retailer is ditching the dark nightclub feel in favor of a brighter,...
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