Lastest Stories by Trey Thoelcke

The tablet wars will continue to heat up if rumors are right that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will release a $99 machine. Although it may not be as feature rich as current products from Microsoft...
The intellectual property lawsuits between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung continue to go back and forth. The latest court decision hurts Apple. A U.K. court said that the Samsung Galaxy tablet...
In the wake of the controversial 7.8% unemployment rate reported by the U.S. Labor Department earlier this month, Gallup today said that its nonseasonally adjusted rate fell from 7.9% at the end of...
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) said that third-quarter earnings surged, despite a slip in revenue, due to a double-digit decline in expenses. The health care company posted adjusted earnings per...
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) reported third-quarter 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The Minneapolis-based bank posted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.74 on revenues of $5.18 billion. In...
nationsonline.orgSpain is on the cusp of something, but no one seems to know for sure what it is. The country received good news from Moody’s that kept Spain’s sovereign paper rating at...
Analysts continue to sift through the earnings reports from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC). Each released relatively weak results for the most recent...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) apparently is about to have another in a series of very public product announcements that stretch back over all of the years when Steve Jobs ran the company. As the number...
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) reported fiscal third-quarter results before markets opened this morning. The health care giant posted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.25 on revenues of $17.1...
There continue to be rumors that Iran will dump oil into the Strait of Hormuz to block the shipping lane that is so critical to the movement of crude. For months, there have been worries and...
Billionaire investor George Soros has spent the past year warning that the European Union will be destroyed by financial and debt problems that will plunge Europe into an economic dark age. Soros...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) needs to build and sell its Surface tablet to “hedge against a declining PC market,” a reporter from ZDNet writes. The problem is that even if the Surface does...
The U.K. Office for National Statistics (ONS) said today that inflation in the country fell to its lowest level in almost three years in September. Annual consumer price inflation slowed to 2.2% last...
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany has increased by 6.7 points in October 2012 to -11.5 points. This is the second consecutive increase of the indicator, and it compares to a...
Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) reported fiscal third-quarter results before markets opened this morning. The USA Today publisher posted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.56 on revenues of $1.31 billion....