United Continental Holdings Inc UAL 0.69% has found itself in the middle of a PR nightmare Monday after a video of police forcibly removing a paying customer from an overbooked flight on Sunday night has gone viral.
Congress has roughly one more month to take advantage of the rarely-used Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal any laws former President Barack Obama implemented shortly before his White House exit. Under the CRA, the president and Congress have 60 legislative days after a new rule is first implemented to repeal that rule with a…
Shares of Straight Path Communications Inc STRP 2.02% were seen skyrocketing more than 150 percent Monday morning after AT&T Inc. T 0.7% announced a $1.6 billion all-stock buyout of the communications company. The buyout price of $95.63 is an incredible premium to where Straight Path was trading just three years ago. Straight Path spent most…
Sears Holdings Corp SHLD 2.29% shares are up an incredible 28.6 percent since the company’s annual report on March 21. Shares initially fell more than 8 percent on concerns about one statement in particular:
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy lost 61,000 retail jobs in the past two months. Fortunately for all the displaced retail sales employees, the economy as a whole is performing exceptionally well at the moment. The overall unemployment rate is down to just 4.5 percent, its lowest level in a decade.
Several American individuals and organizations with a passion for internet privacy are attempting to take what they see as a dangerous new law signed by President Donald Trump and use it against Congress and the president.
One of the most difficult parts of investing is removing emotions from the equation and relying strictly on rational decision-making. Unfortunately, even our own human brains may sometimes point us in the wrong direction.
As unbelievable as it sounds that one tech company could take down an entire sector of the U.S. economy, Amazon.com, Inc. (ticker: AMZN) may be single-handedly destroying U.S. retail. Retailers have seen the Amazon retail juggernaut coming for years, and yet the Amazon body count continues to rise.
U.S. oil prices rose to their highest levels in a month Friday following a U.S. missile strike on a Syrian airbase. Oil exchange-traded funds such as the United States Oil Fund LP (ticker: USO) and the United States Brent Oil Fund LP (BNO) were also higher on Friday after WTI crude prices pushed above $52…
Alternative energy stocks First Solar, Inc. (ticker: FSLR) and 8Point3 Energy Partners LP (CAFD) look to be risky investments, according to at least one analyst.