Lastest Stories by Trey Thoelcke

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS), 7-Eleven Inc., Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) and other well-known retailers are expected to announce that they have banded together to...
TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) reported earlier this morning that its second-quarter profit came to $421 million, or $0.56 per share, and revenue totaled $6 billion. The results were up from $348.3...
Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, announced today that worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2.3% in second quarter to 419 million units, compared to the year-ago...
Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: KORS) has surged in premarket trading following this morning’s fiscal first quarter report. Michael Kors said earnings more than doubled from a year ago to $68.6...
Peter Sands, CEO of Standard Chartered, has flown to New York to personally take charge of the bank’s attempts to reach a settlement with U.S. regulators over allegations it hid transactions...
nationsonline.orgFlash estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, showed that gross domestic product in the eurozone fell by 0.2% during the second quarter of...
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany slipped 5.9 points in August 2012 to a level of -25.5 points. While this is the lowest value of the...
The Julius Baer Group has announced that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is selling Merrill Lynch’s international wealth management business to the Swiss private banking firm for approximately 860...
In order to avoid a proxy fight, Ingersoll-Rand PLC (NYSE: IR) has named activist investor Nelson Peltz to its board of directors. Eleven of those board members, including Peltz, are independent...
Tesoro Corp. (NYSE: TSO) announced that it that is has agreed to purchase BP PLC’s (NYSE: BP) integrated Southern California refining and marketing business for $1.18 billion, plus the value of...
U.S. stock futures are marginally lower this morning, suggesting the S&P 500 Index could halt its longest advance in 20 months. Reports of slowing growth in Japan fueled concern that the global...
The short interest data is out from the July 31 settlement date and, with a couple of notable exceptions, short sellers generally have retreated from their gambles on biotech firms. For the period...
U.S. stock index futures are headed for a weaker open this morning, with futures for the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 down 0.3% to 0.5%. The S&P 500 index may...
Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) opened higher this morning after the company posted a better-than-expected second-quarter profit as cost cutting offset weak sales. The retailer said its quarterly profit...
In its August report on the global oil market, OPEC forecasts that demand growth for crude will grow by 900,000 barrels a day in 2012, unchanged from July’s report. The cartel is less certain about...