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ThinkstockJanuary’s Producer Price Index has been released, and the wholesale inflation report is looking a bit more heated than what was expected. This report may be skewed or harder to compare on...
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From car sales to cancelled airline flights to empty stores, it has been a retail winter of discontent. With the calendar pushing toward spring, and temperatures finally lifting in the south, some of...
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Jon OggMarijuana may have become legalized for medical use in 20 states and legal for recreational use in two states, but what has not been legalized is how these companies conduct their business....
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Angie's List is proving the point we made long ago that it was a company that never really seemed like it needed to be public. Despite a 15% earnings gain, shares are getting crushed as the earnings...
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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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