Lastest Stories by Samuel Weigley

Stocks opened the week lower Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.21%, the Nasdaq down 0.37% and the S&P 500 down 0.30%. Today’s winner is being boughto out by a rival, while...
Today’s 52-week low club, the third in 24/7 Wall St. history, includes a repeat guest and a newcomer. Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) also hit a 52-week low Friday, but we decided it was time to invite...
The stock market is up slightly Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.07%, the Nasdaq up 0.03% and the S&P 500 up 0.01%. Friday’s only market winner beat second-quarter earnings,...
For 24/7 Wall St.’s 52-week low club, we have two well-known Internet companies who have struggled since their respective IPO’s. One company was on our list yesterday, too. Shares of Facebook...
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) founder and CEO Richard Schulze continues to push his case to take Best Buy private. “You can easily test how real my proposal is by granting me permission to...
GameStop Corp.’s (NYSE: GME) second-quarter earnings and sales fell as the lack of new game releases led to software and hardware declines. GameStop’s second-quarter earnings were $21 million, or...
Twenty-six of the top 100 highest-paid U.S. CEOs in 2011 made more than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a study released recently by the Institute for Policy Studies....
24/7 Wall St. is introducting the “52-Week Low Club” where we point out the big stocks that reached their 52-week low on a given today. Today’s additions to the club are two well known...
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesStocks opened mixed today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.04%, the Nasdaq up 0.16% and the S&P 500 up 0.07%. Today’s market winners include a...
Industrial production in the United States increased 0.6% in July, after rising just 0.1% in May and June, according to data released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve. Manufacturing output rose...
New York State manufacturers have faced deteriorating business and have scaled back expectations for the second half of 2012, according to August’s Empire State Manufacturing Survey. About 22% of...
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) thinks it can dethrone Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the enterprise tablet market. Seriously. HP, which sold the failing TouchPad in 2011, will be releasing...
The end of the Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) lockup is quickly approaching. More than 270 million shares of the social network will become free to trade on Thursday. Following the initial public...
Asset management firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is purchasing Seattle-based Getty Images, Inc. for $3.3 billion, management for both groups announced Wednesday. Carlyle is buying Getty from...
The stock market is up Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.25%, the Nasdaq up 0.28% and the S&P 500 up 0.26%. Today’s market winners both reported strong quarterly results,...