Lastest Stories by Trey Thoelcke

United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE: UAL) the Chicago-based parent of United Airlines, has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the Air Line Pilots Association. The pilots...
Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) shares have traded below $20, after a $38 initial public offering. The price could be pushed down more by the people who helped start the company — both employees and...
The war of wills between ECB chief Mario Draghi and Germany’s Bundesbank continues, as the chance that the European Central Bank will have a free hand in buying sovereign debt of weak nations in...
Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) continues its push to remain relevant in the new world of tablets and smartphones, and to keep itself from being broken into pieces and sold off as junk. The...
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers’ index (PMI) released today indicated that the service sector in the United Kingdom grew at its slowest pace in 19 months in July. This casts fresh doubt over...
Retail sales in the eurozone came in better than expected, but growth fell off sharply from the previous year, as consumers in the region struggled with the effects of the economic downturn. The EU...
VirnetX Holding Corp. (NYSEMKT: VHC) has announced that on Wednesday the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, issued its patent claim construction, or “Markman”...
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) has just reported second-quarter net income attributable to common stockholders of $1.5 billion, or $0.90 per fully diluted share. That compares to $1.54 per share in...
The Bank of England announced on Thursday that its key lending rate would remain unchanged, and it made no changes to its planned asset purchases. The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee left the...
This morning, Markit Economics has released July manufacturing PMI data for the United States, the eurozone and major EU countries. Overall, they show that the manufacturing sector continues to slow...
Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) this morning reported net sales of $7.25 billion for the month of July, an increase of 8% from $6.74 billion during the similar period of last year. The...
Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. (NYSE: DTG) reported this morning that its second-quarter earnings came to $1.36 per share on $378.9 million in revenue. EPS were $1.37 and revenue $378.2 million...
Societe Generale SA on Wednesday blamed its worse-than-expected second-quarter profit on write-downs on assets in the United States and Russia. France’s second-largest lender by market value...
A new report by the Credit Suisse Research Institute indicates that companies with women on their boards perform better in challenging markets than those with all-male boards. The results of the...
U.S. stocks are set to open higher on the final day of July. All three indexes are expected to post mild gains for the month. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are up about 0.2%. S&P...