MOCON Announces Results for the Second Quarter 2013
Filed under: Investing MOCON Announces Results for the Second Quarter 2013 MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MOCON, Inc. (NAS: MOCO) today reported sales of $13.7 million for the second quarter ended June...
View ArticleThis Drug Store Can Make You Money
Filed under: Investing The drug store industry is changing, and while it's not all for the best, profitability is likely to improve for one simple reason. CVS continues to impressWhile Walgreen and...
View ArticleHappy Labor Day: But What the Heck Happened to the Unions?
Filed under: Unemployment Rate, Job Market, Unemployment, Layoffs, U.S. Government, Economy, People, SavingSusan Watts/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesMembers of the Ironworkers Union march in...
View ArticlePolaris Recalls Indian Motorcycles
Filed under: Investing Polaris Industries issued a recall notice Friday for an unspecified number of Kings Mountain-era Indian-brand motorcycles, saying the vehicles may suffer from "a defect related...
View ArticleSouth African Labor Unrest Brings More Downside to Gold Miners
Filed under: Investing South African labor unions have never been easy to deal with. The country is notorious for outbreaks of violence related to negotiations between unions and mining companies. Once...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft Should Hire Nick Saban
Filed under: Investing By now, you've heard the news that longtime Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is taking his song and dance show into retirement sometime within the next year. As...
View ArticleFTSE Shares That Soared and Plunged This Week
Filed under: Investing LONDON -- At one stage it looked as if the FTSE 100 might be set to end its losing streak, but it turned tail again by Friday and lost 79 points (1.2%) overall to finish the week...
View ArticlePentagon Awards 4 Logistics Contracts Friday
Filed under: Investing The U.S. Department of Defense announced no fewer than 35 separate contract awards in a single day Friday -- quite possibly a new record, or at least a recent record. Among the...
View ArticleWho Gets Rich When Miley Shakes Her Moneymaker?
Filed under: Investing Miley Cyrus dominated the headlines this week after her (ahem) spirited performance at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards. While teddy bears and school-spirit foam hands may have...
View ArticleThis Marvel Movie Has "Winner" Written All Over It
Filed under: Investing Of all the brands Walt Disney owns, none has proved so successful as Marvel Entertainment's various superheroes. So why does it seem that few believe next summer's Guardians of...
View ArticleOil Majors Kick Off World Water Week
Filed under: Investing Sept. 1 marks the beginning of World Water Week, and some familiar oil and gas majors are making a big splash to mark the occasion. What are they doing and why? Watch the...
View ArticleAustralia Buying $58 Million Worth of Smart Munitions From ATK
Filed under: Investing The Advanced Weapons Division of Alliant Techsystems won a $57.8 million firm-fixed-price, option-eligible, non-multi-year foreign military sales contract Friday, to supply Low...
View Article2 Stocks to Buy and Hold for 5 Years
Filed under: Investing In this segment from The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer play a round of "Fool in the Blank." In this...
View ArticleToyota to Increase U.S. Transmission Production
Filed under: Investing To meet increased demand, Toyota will invest a combined $102 million in three U.S. six-speed automatic transmission assembly plants, creating "more than 100 jobs to meet growing...
View ArticleNew Eliquis® (apixaban) Post-hoc Subanalysis of the Phase III ARISTOTLE trial...
Filed under: Investing New Eliquis® (apixaban) Post-hoc Subanalysis of the Phase III ARISTOTLE trial Demonstrated that within 30 Days of a Procedure, Stroke or Systemic Embolism and Major Bleeding were...
View ArticleWater, Energy, and the Future of Business
Filed under: Investing Businesses are facing growing constraints on inputs that we all once took for granted: water and energy. The two are far more connected than we ever realized. Watch the following...
View ArticleThis Week in Sirius XM Radio
Filed under: Investing Things never get dull for the country's lone satellite-radio provider. Shares of Sirius XM Radio slipped this week, falling 3.2% to close at $3.58. The media darling's drop was...
View ArticleTrouble in Texas: Abundant Oil, Scarce Water
Filed under: Investing Texas is parched for water, even as its oil flows with abandon. Fracking exacerbates some of the state's water scarcity, and oil and gas companies' relationships with local...
View ArticleWhy This Flagship HIV Drug Is at Risk
Filed under: Investing This episode of The Motley Fool's Market Checkup is dedicated to the world's largest pure-play biotech stock, Gilead Sciences . Market Checkup gives a full examination of...
View ArticleThe 3 Most Profitable Medical Device Companies
Filed under: Investing You may not think of medical device makers as some of the most profitable companies on the markets, but make no mistake -- this industry's top players aren't shy about bringing...
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