Harris Wins Polish Radio Contract
Filed under: Investing Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris announced on Monday the signing of a $61 million contract to sell radio sets to the Poland Ministry of National Defense. The radios in question,...
View ArticleSkilled HealthCare CEO Calls It Quits
Filed under: Investing Foothill Ranch, Calif.-based Skilled Healthcare needs a new CEO. On Monday, the assisted living facilities operator announced that Chief Executive Officer Boyd Hendrickson plans...
View ArticlePier 1 Imports Declares Dividend
Filed under: Investing Pier 1 Imports is continuing to export some of its money in the form of shareholder payouts. The company has declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.05 per share, to be...
View ArticleIs Apple Stock Finally in "Screaming Buy" Territory?
Filed under: Investing A mid-April dip notwithstanding, shares of Apple are now trading below $400 for the first time since December 2011. Though that might not sound that long ago, back then, Apple...
View ArticleDelta Makes a Big Move Into Europe
Filed under: Investing Last week, Delta Air Lines closed on the acquisition of 49% of British carrier Virgin Atlantic. By teaming up with Virgin Atlantic, Delta has tripled the number of flights it...
View ArticleFacebook Wants to Become Zynga
Filed under: Investing Considering Zynga's expeditious fall from grace, it's hard to imagine any company looking on enviously -- especially one that has a unique insight to Zynga's business: Facebook ....
View ArticleBerkshire's Specialty Insurance, Bigger Than You Think?
Filed under: Investing Two weeks ago, Berkshire Hathaway announced its newly formed commercial property-casualty insurance group, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, is officially up and running....
View ArticleCanadian Solar Power Plant Sale to TransCanada Closed
Filed under: Investing Start scratching names off the asset list of Canadian Solar . The company announced that it has closed the sale of Brockville 1, a 10 megawatt AC solar power plant. The buyer is...
View ArticleUniversal Display Has Its Eye on the Skies
Filed under: Investing If playing an integral role in millions of smartphone displays and (soon)Â big-screen TVs weren't enough, the folks at Universal Display have fixed their eyes on aircraft...
View ArticleCorning's New Partnership Could Change the World
Filed under: Investing Corning recently announced a partnership with View, to help further commercialize View's innovative dynamic glass, which automatically adjusts its tint in response to the...
View ArticleWhy Big Industrials Sent the Dow Lower
Filed under: Investing Throughout most of 2013, you could count on the Dow Jones Industrials to recover from early losses to post impressive gains by the market's close. Yet lately, the stock market...
View ArticleUniFirst Declares a Set of Dividends
Filed under: Investing UniFirst is getting ready to issue a pair of dividend payouts. The company has declared quarterly common stock distributions for both its regular and its Class B shares. For the...
View ArticleNielsen Replaces Sprint on the S&P 500
Filed under: Investing McGraw-Hill's S&P Dow Jones Indices has made a change in one of its iconic products. After the close of trading on July 8, the S&P 500 will be home to media research...
View ArticleNorthrop Wins Funds for E-2D Hawkeyes, JTaGS Satellite Link
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded Northrop Grumman a pair of contract wins on Tuesday, worth upwards of $16 million in aggregate. The larger of the two awards, for $9.3 million,...
View ArticleBoeing Wins Foreign Military Sales Contracts Worth $132 Million
Filed under: Investing The Department of Defense awarded Boeing not one, not two, but three separate contract wins Tuesday, worth upwards of $132 million in aggregate. The smallest award, for $7.7...
View ArticleMake Money in Recovering Industrial Stocks the Easy Way
Filed under: Investing Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you. If you'd like to add some industrial stocks to your portfolio, the Industrial...
View ArticleMasterCard Is Tier 1
Filed under: Investing "And, by the way, the bulk of the billions in Berkshire Hathaway has come from the better businesses. ... And most of the other people who've made a lot of money have done so in...
View ArticleDow Dips Late on Egypt Tension
Filed under: Investing Heading into the Fourth of July holiday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average started off strong, but dipped late in the afternoon on word of instability in Egypt, finishing down 42...
View ArticleCoreLogic Makes an Acqusition
Filed under: Investing CoreLogic is proceeding logically in terms of asset buys. The company announced it has signed an agreement to acquire a set of assets that compliment its core competencies. The...
View Article"Nokia Networks" Has a Nice Ring to It
Filed under: Investing When the rumors started swirling a couple of weeks ago that Siemens was shopping around its 50% ownership stake in Nokia Siemens Networks, the profitable joint venture it has...
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