Image source: Getty Images. What happened It’s been quite a morning for American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. (NYSE: AXL) , a leading supplier to the automotive industry and a worldwide leader in manufacturing, engineering, design, and validation of driveline and drivetrain systems for trucks, SUVs, cars, and crossovers. Not only did the company announce... Read More →

Forest product manufacturer and supplier Weyerhaeuser Company WY recently announced that it has successfully completed the sale of its printing papers company, North Pacific Paper Company to One Rock Capital Partners, LLC. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As revealed, Weyerhaeuser’s divested assets included its Longview, WA-based papers mill, which it operated in... Read More →

We expect The Kraft Heinz Company KHC to beat expectations when it reports third-quarter 2016 numbers on Nov 3, after the closing bell. Last quarter, the company posted a positive earnings surprise of 19.72%. The packaged food manufacturer delivered positive earnings surprises in three of the past four quarters, the average surprise being 5.22%. Let’s... Read More →

Have you been eager to see how Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. HST performed in Q3 in comparison with the market expectations? Let’s quickly scan through the key facts from this Bethesda, MD – based hotel real estate investment trust’s (REIT) earnings release this morning: A FFO Beat Host Hotels came out with adjusted funds... Read More →

By Vanguard : Part of Vanguard’s Global Macro Matters research series Understanding the current-and potentially future-state of the global economy helps investors put market movements into context. To promote that understanding, researchers from Vanguard Investment Strategy Group examine the economic trends that affect the investing environment in this series. Below are their latest insights into... Read More →

For quite a while now, it’s been rumored that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will transition at least one of the iPhone models that it’s expected to launch in the fall of 2017 away from liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, toward organic light emitting diode, or OLED, displays. Image source: Apple. Thanks to a new report from... Read More →

It seems nothing can slow the momentum in Alphabet ‘s(NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) search efforts or in cloud competitor Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) . Microsoft’s growth is not quite as surprising, in that CEO Satya Nadella’s plans to lead the budding cloud wars is taking hold after a couple of ho-hum years. For Alphabet, a slowing... Read More →

Image source: Getty Images. What happened Shares of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: LITE) were falling today, continuing a slide that his hit several fiber-optic stocks over the last few session. Shares of the optics and photonics tech company finished down 10.3%. LITE Price data by YCharts So what For Lumentum, the sell-off began on Thursday,... Read More →

All major U.S. indices finished in negative territory last week, giving back the previous week’s modest gains. They were led lower by the small-cap Russell 2000, which lost 2.5%. However, the four “majors” — the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000 — are all still up 4% or more for... Read More →

Back on October 26 , I told you about one of the most exciting revolutions for investing to happen in years. The new opportunity has to do with an asset class that has delivered out-sized returns for wealthy, elite investors while remaining off-limits to everyone else. I’m talking about pre-IPO investing. As you probably know,... Read More →