Will the Olympics Help 'About a Boy' and 'Growing up Fisher'?
Filed under: Investing This weekend NBC (a subsidiary of Comcast ) will use its coverage of the Winter Games to give two of its new comedies added exposure ahead of the show's official debuts. While...
View ArticleLast Week's Biggest Dow Losers
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View Article2 Key Risks to Facebook's WhatsApp Buyout
Filed under: Investing This week was perhaps the most significant one yet for social-media giant Facebook since its IPO in May 2012. By now, you probably know Facebook announced that it's buying the...
View ArticleTax Prep 2014: 2 Confusing "Stealth" Tax Hikes You Must Prepare For
Filed under: Investing Tax season is hitting its peak, and people are finally starting to hunker down to do their tax prep for 2014. What they're finding, though, is that taxes seem to be more...
View ArticleMonsanto Company's Plan to Silence Its Critics and Save the Honeybees
Filed under: Investing Many plants rely on bumblebees and honeybees for pollination, but new evidence suggests populations are far from decimated. Image: author. Depending on what you read and listen...
View ArticleLast Week: Dow and S&P Fall on Bad Econ Data and Winter Freeze
Filed under: Investing Still crushing throat lozenges after all the "U-S-A" chants reverberating from your Olympics-inspired mouth? (We're disappointed, by the way, men's ice hockey team.) Relax and...
View ArticleWill WhatsApp Pay Off for Facebook?
Filed under: Investing The key questions for investors about Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp will be how Facebook inevitable chooses to monetizes the popular service. WhatsApp implemented a...
View ArticleDo You Live in One of America's Most Innovative States?
Filed under: Investing We're the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn't just...
View Article1 Great Dividend You Can Buy Right Now
Filed under: Investing Dividend stocks are everywhere, but many just downright stink. In some cases, the business model is in serious jeopardy, or the dividend itself isn't sustainable. In others, the...
View ArticleCan Celgene Deliver in 2014?
Filed under: Investing Shareholders in Celgene have experienced a profitable year, with shares in the cancer and immune-inflammatory-related focused company comfortably outperforming the Nasdaq index....
View ArticleShould You Follow Carl Icahn Into This Health Care Turnaround?
Filed under: Investing Investor Carl Icahn has an eye for a good buy. With a remarkable ability to bring out unrecognized value in his share purchases, he has amassed a fortune. And now it appears he...
View ArticleAs Broadcast TV Prepares for Its Last Stand, Aereo Suffers a Setback
Filed under: Investing Courts are making it tough for would-be Rule Breaker Aereo to fight the broadcast TV establishment, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video. Earlier this week, a...
View ArticleGas Prices Jump on Concern About Global Oil Market
Filed under: Energy, Personal Finance, Gas Prices, World Markets, Investing Joe Raedle/Getty Images By Jennifer Saba NEW YORK -- The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose...
View Article3 Under-the-Radar Biotech Stocks You Need to Watch in 2014
Filed under: Investing No industry embraces the boom-or-bust potential of the stock market like the biotech industry. Under-the-radar stocks can produce huge returns for investors from successful drug...
View ArticleWhy Is Allergan Beating the S&P 500?
Filed under: Investing Since releasing its fourth-quarter results on Feb. 5, Allergan's share price is up 9.6%. This comfortably beats the S&P 500's return over the same time period, with the wider...
View ArticleThe Most Important Things to Remember About the Stocks Warren Buffett Buys
Filed under: Investing The world now knows what stocks Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway were buying in the fourth quarter, but that's not the whole story. Perhaps the most attention-grabbing...
View ArticleBioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc: The Future Looks Bright
Filed under: Investing Orphan drug specialist BioMarin Pharmaceutical enjoyed a notable week. It started with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, officially approving the company's enzyme...
View ArticleIs This Drug Maker's Stock Too Cheap to Ignore?
Filed under: Investing Generic drug stocks have done very well over the past year. Companies like Mylan and Actavis have seen their shares rise roughly 60% and 120%, respectively. One sector laggard...
View ArticleFirst Solar, Inc. Earnings: What to Expect Tuesday
Filed under: Investing First Solar will release its quarterly report on Tuesday, and investors have had mixed views in how they assess the solar giant's future. Falling costs throughout the industry...
View ArticleDon't Get Too Excited, BlackBerry
Filed under: Investing Upon hearing that Facebook is acquiring WhatsApp, BlackBerry shares rallied on the confirmation that there is significant value in message services. One of BlackBerry's key...
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