Trey Thoelcke - Editor for 24/7 Wall St.
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Courtesy of The Washington Post CompanyShares of the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) are up in early trading after the company reported that it swung to a profit on strong revenue growth from its TV...
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thinkstockEconomists and business chiefs increasingly say that trouble in Europe is the greatest threat to the world’s financial and GDP futures. In addition, political stability in many nations...
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Courtesy of Tesla MotorsAutomobile magazine has named its Car of the Year. Unfortunately, it has chosen a vehicle almost no one has bought or will buy, and the car’s maker may not even survive the...
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Wikimedia CommonsGoogle Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile OS is on the march again, gobbling market share from its competition, even Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The only thing that might stop...
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thinkstockCostco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) this morning reported a better-than-expected rise in October same-store sales, due in part to higher gasoline prices and a weak dollar. The company...
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Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) managed to maintain its habit of posting quarterly losses. In its most recent fiscal quarter, the large Japanese consumer electronics company lost $194 million. The reasons for...
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thinkstockGreece cannot seem to work its way out of the financial news by settling on austerity programs that would trigger aid from the International Monetary Fund and European Union. Internal...
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courtesy of BlackberryThe Defense Department will continue to take new bids for its suppliers of smartphones. The BlackBerry, made by Canada’s Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM), has most of...
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According to CoreLogic’s National Foreclosure Report for September, some 57,000 foreclosures in the United States were completed in September 2012. That was down about 31% from 83,000 in September...
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The EU statistics agency Eurostat reported today that inflation in the eurozone eased due to a deceleration in the growth of energy prices. The agency’s flash estimate of consumer inflation in the...
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The EU statistics agency Eurostat reports that the unemployment rate in the eurozone climbed to a record 11.6% in September. That was up from the 11.5% reported for August, and exceeded the 11.5%...
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Wikimedia CommonsWhich industries benefited from Hurricane Sandy? Very few, one has to suppose. But among those must be e-commerce, which means another victory for Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN),...
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thinkstockEurope’s financial problems were pushed off the front pages for a few days as Hurricane Sandy roared up the East Coast. But they did not go away, and they may have worsened. The debate...
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thinkstockSome popular websites knocked offline by hurricane damage to the facilities they use to host their content have still not recovered. The popular gossip site Gawker is among them. Other...
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ThinkstockMetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) this morning reported that its net income more than doubled in the third quarter, helped by a gain from a securities settlement and lower costs. The...
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