Retailers report modest gains for April Americans spent briskly during the early spring months in the latest sign that they’re encouraged by the economic recovery. Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans’ shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to buy spring fashions. More
LinkedIn Shares Slide After Disappointing Outlook LinkedIn's surging share price cooled Friday as the social network projected slower revenue growth next quarter following a decision to lower the number of display ads that the website shows. More
Stocks surge to new highs after hiring climbs A big gain in the job market is lifting the stock market to new milestones. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 15,000 for the first time early Friday, and the Standard and Poor's 500 index, a broader market measure, broke through 1,600 for the first time. More
HTC Expects Brighter Second Quarter Taiwan's HTC expects its second-quarter revenue and operating margin to rise from the first quarter, as sales of the new HTC One smartphone pick up. More
Mobile Efforts Help Propel Facebook’s Earnings Facebook was once a darling of investors, then a turnoff. Now, a year after going public, the social network seems to have settled into a more stable relationship with Wall Street. But the company has still been taking pains to prove that it can make more money from its base of more than a billion users, especially from those using Facebook on mobile devices. More
HDFC Bank (HDB) Fell on Weak Margin and Slow Deposit Growth Polen Capital, an investment management company, released its “Polen Emerging Markets Growth Strategy” first quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. 06/5/2024 - 2:23 am | View Link
Stock market today: Stocks eke out gains as labor market cools, rate-cut bets rise Shares of the video game retailer fell about 5%. US stocks flipped from red to green territory on Tuesday, closing higher as investors assessed weaker-than-expected economic data against the ... 06/4/2024 - 3:03 pm | View Link
Stock Market Highlights: Nifty tanks 6%, ends below short-term and medium-term averages. Key levels to watch on Wednesday Domestic benchmark indices saw a gap-down opening on Tuesday as voting began for the Lok Sabha elections, which signalled a better-than-expected performance for the INDIA block. Apart from this, ... 06/3/2024 - 5:03 pm | View Link
Stock market today: Stocks cap another winning month, S&P 500 logs best May since 2003 US stocks wrapped the last trading day of the month on a high note, notching the sixth positive month in the last seven for all three major indexes. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average ... 05/31/2024 - 6:18 am | View Link
8 Best Dow Stocks To Buy According to Hedge Funds This includes the Dow Jones index as all 30 of its components ended the day in red on May 23 ... care services and programs. On May 15, Bank of America Securities analyst Kevin Fischbeck ... 05/25/2024 - 3:53 am | View Link
In downtown Nashville last weekend, I realized my mistake. I had been way too quick to nod along when someone says something along the lines of, “Downtown isn’t for locals anymore.”
Sacramento-based private mortgage lender Summit Funding Inc. is expanding with strategic hires of top loan producers in key markets across the country where it's targeting growth.
The Pitch Elk Grove startup contest is returning at the end of this summer with $20,000 in prize money for the best startup pitches from area technology and entrepreneurial companies.
The proposal still includes a new school of global studies and major renovations to Warren Towers and Mugar Memorial Library. But gone, at least for now, is a new dorm tower and a new science and engineering research building.