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ThinkstockThe Obama administration appointed former Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) executive Kurt DelBene as senior advisor to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services. She is...
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ThinkstockA firm connected to Aubrey McClendon, former CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) filed on Friday a preliminary Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling on Thursday that could result in a damage award to Tronox Ltd. (NYSE: TROX) of as much as $14.5 billion from...
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Courtesy Toyota Motor Corp.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its latest report on fuel economy trends and carbon dioxide emissions Thursday. The data includes fuel economy...
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ThinkstockThe Supreme Court of British Columbia issued a ruling late on Monday on a challenge by Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. (NYSEMKT: PBM) to an earlier ruling by the provincial government that...
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ThinkstockAfter the recession we came out of, and with the massive excess in capacity we have at large multinational companies, the small business component of the economy is where the major gains...
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ThinkstockShares of Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) tumbled nearly 12% on Friday following the announcement that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was launching an investigation...
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courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) and its chief executive officer, Elon Musk, could not do a single thing wrong. Sales of the company’s electric cars rose so quickly beyond...
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Public domain via Wikimedia CommonsWith an expected vote due next Monday on the so-called Volcker rule, one question on big bank stocks is whether the impact of that rule has been fully priced into...
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Courtesy of Boeing Co.As promised, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday issued a formal airworthiness directive on The Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) 747-8, 747-8F, and 787-8...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Treasury Department announced Thursday morning that it will sell the remaining 31.1 million shares of stock the government owns in General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) by the end...
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courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares ended Tuesday with a 3.7% bounce after CEO Elon Musk announced three steps the company would take to address issues related to three...
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ThinkstockBankers are still not very well thought of after the financial meltdown, even if they might not have ben that well thought of before the meltdown. Still, at some point the public needs to...
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Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsThe botched initial public offering (IPO) of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) cost the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) a lot of bad press. What it did not cost the...
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ThinkstockA jury in Florida has reportedly awarded ParkerVision Inc. (NASDAQ: PRKR) $173 million in its patent infringement suit against Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM). ParkerVision had hoped for an...
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