Shares of gun makers Smith & Wesson Holding Corp SWHC 0.96%,Sturm, Ruger & Company RGR 3.05%, TASER International, Inc. TASR 1.32% and Vista Outdoor Inc VSTO 0.3% are all surging on Friday following the tragic shooting of five police officers in Dallas.

The long-term economic impact of the Brexit is still a topic of hot debate on Wall Street, but Argus believes the Brexit is about to take a backseat to Q2 earnings season in the minds of U.S. investors.

AT&T Inc. T 0.23%’s incredible 2016 bull run may have finally hit a technical bump in the road this week. After peaking as high as $43.40 on Tuesday, the stock has pulled back to around the $42 level in early Friday trading.

Economists who had been speculating that the sluggish U.S. May jobs report was simply an outlier are feeling quite vindicated on Friday. The U.S. economy bounced back in a major way in June by adding 287,000 jobs, well above consensus expectations of 175,000. The unemployment rate rose slightly more than expected to 4.9 percent.

Hershey Co HSY 0.51%‘s board of directors unanimously rejectedMondelez International Inc MDLZ 0.54%‘s $23 billion takeover bid, but investors may still be in for some surprise M&A twists and turns in the snack food industry.

Facebook Inc FB 0.54% is the latest big-name tech company to answer questions regarding its tax bill. This week, the U.S. Justice Department filed a petition to force Facebook to comply with an investigation into property the company transferred to an Ireland subsidiary for tax purposes back in 2010.

Investor fears over the long-term impact of cord-cutting have weighed heavily on large-cap entertainment stocks in recent years. Despite the uncertainty of a changing media world, Brean Capital analyst Alan Gould sees some compelling value for selective investors.

Tesla Motors Inc TSLA 3.69% has gotten a lot of criticism for its aggressive spending in recent years, but there is certainly one thing that the company is not overspending on: advertising.

In a recent tweet, CNBC Senior Markets Commentator Michael Santoli pointed out how WhiteWave Foods Co WWAV 0.9% stock is now up 215.8 percent since its May 2013 spinoff from parent company Dean Foods Co DF 1.77%, which is down 5.9 percent over the same period.

If your day job involves making decisions that could gain or lose billions of dollars and impact the lives of millions of employees and shareholders, it’s probably very easy to lose sight of what is important in life.