Comcast Corp. is scheduled to report its financial results for the first quarter before the market opens Monday. Here’s what you need to know. Read More »
May 1, 2015
Comcast Corp. is scheduled to report its financial results for the first quarter before the market opens Monday. Here’s what you need to know. Read More »
In the market for the electric version of General Motors Co.’s Chevrolet Spark compact car? It appears you’re no longer alone, as the auto maker appears to have pretty much sold out of the previously slow-seller in April.
The Spark EV– one of a handful of pure electric vehicles on the market– has to date been a bit player for the Detroit auto giant. On sale only in California and Oregon thus far, Chevy dealers have traditionally sold between 80 and 120 a month, with the car’s historical best monthly performance roughly equivalent to the amount of Corvette sports cars sold on a typical day. Read More »
When the price of crude fell off a cliff, oil producers were supposed to topple, too. Companies that own pipelines, storage terminals and oil refineries have been waiting to catch them, or at least some of their assets, with outstretched arms and open wallets. So far, it hasn’t worked out that way. Read More »
Submarine warfare traces back 500 years, at least to Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches. The first recorded sub attack was in 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. A German U-boat’s sinking of the RMS Lusitania was a factor dragging the U.S. into World War I. Submarine warfare waned after the Cold War, but subs are back in vogue, as countries seek strategic advantages over rivals, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Here are five things to know about how the underwater cat-and-mouse game is changing: Read More »
Chevron Corp. is scheduled to report earnings for the first of 2015 on the morning of May 1, and will hold a conference call at 9:00 a.m. EDT. Here’s what you should know. Read More »
The obituaries of Jean Nidetch, the founder of the diet chain Weight Watchers, who died on Wednesday at age 91, talk about her personal and corporate triumphs, as is appropriate. This is a neighborhood account. Read More »
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the animation studio run by Jeffrey Katzenberg, will announce its first-quarter 2015 earnings after the market closes on Thursday. Here’s what you need to know: Read More »
Viacom Inc. is scheduled to release its fiscal second-quarter earnings Thursday morning. Here’s what you need to know. Read More »
Exxon Mobil Corp. is scheduled to report earnings for the first quarter of 2015 on Thursday. Net income of $0.83 a share is the consensus of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters, compared with $2.10 a year earlier. Revenue of $56.4 billion is forecast, compared with $106.8 billion a year earlier. Read More »
Earnings calls tend to be fairly sedate affairs with analysts and executives chewing over the minutiae of their industry. Does a rise in profit margins in Asia mean the China slowdown won’t be severe? Were industrial costs or R&D the bigger drag on profit?
But things got heated Wednesday when Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne’s appeal for auto-industry consolidation was challenged by an analyst on the car maker’s first-quarter earnings call. Read More »
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