Vacations are a luxury many of us hope to enjoy. It’s therefore encouraging to hear that more Americans are planning vacations this year than they have in the past. In a report by the Conference Board, the percentage of U.S. adults planning to take a vacation in the next half-year […]
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2 Reasons to Worry About Nordstrom After the Latest Report
Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) stock has held steady following its third-quarter earnings release. However, this wasn’t the usual solid quarter investors have gotten used to seeing. Continue Reading Below In addition to comparable sales turning negative, down 0.9%, there were two big warning signs in the report. First, comparable sales at Nordstrom […]
Will 2018 Be Procter & Gamble’s Best Year Yet?
It’s a safe bet that Procter & Gamble‘s (NYSE: PG) management team is happy to close the books on 2017. Sales have been sluggish, competition was fierce, and the company narrowly beat back an activist shareholder challenge that would have forced a major strategic shakeup. Continue Reading Below Weak global […]
NVIDIA Strengthens Offering for Gamers Heading Into Holidays
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) recently announced its new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card, which fills out the graphics specialist’s roster with several gaming cards spanning every performance level heading into the holiday quarter. Continue Reading Below Competitor Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) recently launched a new round of cards aimed […]
3 Serious Problems with the 4% Retirement Rule
Most of us know that we need to be socking away a lot of dollars for retirement, and many of us are doing so. It’s hard to know how much money we will need, though, which makes it hard to know how much we have to save and accumulate. We […]
AP Source: Uber nears deal for huge Softbank investment
DETROIT – Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is close to finalizing a multibillion-dollar investment by Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank, a person briefed on the deal said. Continue Reading Below The investment could be announced Sunday, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investment has not been […]
Better Buy: Facebook Inc vs. Google
It’s hard to imagine, but just over twenty years ago neither Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) nor Google — now Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) — existed. Combined, these behemoths are worth over $1.2 trillion. That’s more than the GDP of all but 14 countries in the world — a truly staggering figure. Continue […]
Lawsuit seeks new recourse on for-profit college fraud
WASHINGTON – Two women who claim they were defrauded by a for-profit college have sued the Education Department and a private loan servicer in a case their attorneys say could provide a new legal remedy for tens of thousands of students frustrated with the department’s inaction on claims seeking loan […]
Why GNC Holdings Stock Fell 22.6% in October
What happened Continue Reading Below Shares of GNC Holdings (NYSE: GNC) dropped nearly 23% last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, after the nutritional supplements retailer delivered third-quarter results that disappointed investors. So what GNC’s third-quarter revenue fell 3% year over year to $609.5 million. That came in below Wall […]
Intel Corp. CEO Says Nervana AI Chip Revenue Comes Next Year
In summer 2016, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced it would acquire a company called Nervana to accelerate its efforts in the small-but-fast-growing market for artificial intelligence and machine learning processors. Continue Reading Below With Nervana’s technology, Intel hopes to more effectively compete against technologies like NVIDIA‘s graphics processing units (GPUs), […]