Google Inc GOOG 4.67% GOOGL 4.74% is one of the world’s leading companies when it comes to technological innovation. With Google’s quarterly earnings release, today is a good time to take a look at what the company has been up to over the past three months. Here’s a list of seven Google innovations since the…

A recent report by Bridgewater focused on the current state of the housing market in the U.S. The recovery from the bursting of the housing bubble during the financial crisis has been mostly slow and grinding. Bridgewater analysts explain the major reasons why the housing market is not booming like it could be.

Government-backed mortgage giant Freddie Mac FMCC recently announced that it will be selling $410 million of deeply delinquent mortgage loans in a continued effort to clean up its balance sheet. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is pressing Freddie Mac and cousin Fannie Mae  FNMA to actively reduce their exposure to delinquent loans this year.

Credit Suisse updated their earnings forecasts for stocks in the electric power and utilities space. The updated earnings positions incorporate the most recent data on U.S. power demand, nuclear outages and company guidance. Credit Suisse is predicting below-consensus earnings per share for the following five companies.

On the day of its Q4 earnings release, many Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 13.71% shareholders are likely fearful of a repeat of the company’s disastrous third quarter 2014 earnings report back in October that tanked the stock 13 percent. After all, how much could change in only three months? When it comes to Amazon, three months is…

The Bank of Ireland (ADR) IRE 1.55% announced recently that it will be terminating its American ADR program and that the company will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In a press release on Jan 21, the company explained that the ADR program is no longer consistent with the goals of…

Analysts at Maxim Group downgraded Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated VRTX 3.5% Thursday from Buy to Hold and lowered their price target from $148.00 to $121.00. The company released its Q4 earnings report on Wednesday.

In a recent report, Goldman Sachs Group Inc analysts gave its short-term and long-term take on commodity markets. While analysts believe the worst may not be over for falling commodity prices, there is a light at the end of the tunnel in the longer-term.

After its first meeting of 2015, the U.S. Federal Reserve opted not to raise interest rates from near-zero percent levels. The statement provided the first updates on the U.S. economic outlook since the Fed’s last meeting in December.