Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) sent waves through Wall Street this week by beating estimates by $0.16 a share in its earnings report for the third quarter.
It cited heavy demand in its mining equipment business as a major catalyst in the third quarter... read more »
October 28, 2011 1:37 pm / no comments
Oil Services Industry Set for “Gusher Of Profits”
As Ian Cooper’s recent article for Wealth Daily stated, the world isn’t necessarily running out of oil. It’s running out of “easy to get” oil.
Oil companies aren’t chasing... read more »
September 13, 2011 2:30 pm / no comments
Cobalt has been used as a pigment in glass and porcelain for centuries. Most notably it was used to create that distinctive blue color in fine china. Other than that, cobalt was mainly seen as a byproduct of mining copper and nickel ore.
The... read more »
September 8, 2011 4:38 pm / no comments
There’s a lot of talk about diversification and asset allocation on this website, and rightly so. While diversification can limit large short-term gains, it also protects against large short-term losses. Since the markets tend to be unpredictable,... read more »
July 19, 2011 2:00 pm / no comments
It will be one year on Friday since British Petroleum (NYSE: BP) was able to cap a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and begin to mend one of the worst public relations episodes in recent memory.
One year later and it looks like we have... read more »
July 18, 2011 6:30 pm / no comments
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) may have a bright future ahead, but don’t expect much more growth in the short term.
Netflix stock fell back almost four percent on Thursday after negative customer reactions to a monthly rate increase.
The fall... read more »
July 15, 2011 4:00 pm / no comments
GroupOn and Twitter will receive plenty of headlines leading up to their IPOs, but the most important technology IPO preceding Facebook will be Zynga.
Unlike GroupOn and Twitter, Zynga currently earns a strong profit. And if it fails, it would... read more »
July 13, 2011 7:45 pm / no comments
A study found that 80 percent of people can differentiate a sample of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) from a sample of Pepsi (NYSE: PEP). The same study found that if you give people three samples they can only accurately guess which samples are... read more »
July 11, 2011 7:00 pm / no comments
E-commerce is one of the few areas of constant growth in the United States these days. It’s the reason Wal-Mart (Nasdaq: WMT) wants to unseat Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) as the leader in online retail sales.
Check out what the first-quarter... read more »
June 29, 2011 4:00 pm / no comments
There’s a word you may want to get to know – Haptics.
If you’ve ever used a video game controller that rumbled or a touchscreen that vibrated when you hit a key, than you’re familiar with the concept behind the word.
Haptics... read more »
June 29, 2011 1:00 pm / no comments