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Jon OggThursday brought two economic reports. First was the weekly jobless claims, followed by January retail sales. Oddly enough, weather was not really cited for any weakness. Stocks were already...
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ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may finally be on the verge of changing its method of acting like a non-profit entity. With margins running at close to zero, or sometimes negative, now it...
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ThinkstockControl4 Corp. (NASDAQ: CTRL) surged after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report. This is a home automation player with wider ambitions than just your new home. While the stock...
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Sprint now owns Clearwire, or at least they are together as a quasi tracking stock under Softbank. Most wireless subscribers seen news of price wars of late, but the price of a monthly CLEAR...
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ThinkstockThe big news regarding Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) was supposed to be its earnings report. Instead, news is out that Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) has signed a 10-year...
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ThinkstockThe Commerce Department’s report on gross domestic product (GDP) has been released for the fourth quarter of 2013. The headline shows growth of 3.2%, which met the Dow Jones estimate of...
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Visa is out with its fiscal first quarter earnings report. This is the most dominant stock of the Dow Jones Industrial Average now because of its $217.12 closing price. Because the Dow is a price...
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courtesy of USPSIf prices of goods or services are rising or falling, it often means that someone is winning and someone is losing as a result. As a general service reminder, and hopefully a...
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ThinkstockIt is unknown what the real damages are going to be from the Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) data theft around the holidays of 2013. Target refers to this as a breach, but by getting credit and...
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The NBA's Sacramento Kings will be the first major professional sports franchise to accept bitcoins. If one NBA team is doing it, others are likely to follow. If the NBA accepts it, why not other...
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) has now released the holiday numbers, and the naysayers were proven wrong despite some of the worst December weather in years.
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Nest ThermostatGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is not afraid of spending big bucks for hot ideas. Many investors know that Google has been investing in energy efficiency and other automation trends, but...
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The 2013 brands rankings are out, and many of the names on the BrandIndex list are iconic American companies and products. It makes sense for investors to buy stocks that resonate well with the...
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Visa is now the most important stock in the Dow Jones industrial Average. And it was the sixth best performing stock of the index in 2013, so 24/7 Wall St. has run a bullish and bearish analysis for...
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New U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data show that personal income in current dollars grew by 0.2% month over month and personal spending rose by 0.5% in November.
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