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Valeant Shares Slide After Company Forecasts Cut

Posted by Teri Schroder on Jun 7th, 2016

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (NYSE:VRX) shares plummeted Tuesday as new Chief Executive Officer Joseph Papa reduced the company’s 2016 earnings and sales forecasts. The earnings forecast for this year has been reduced... More »

Airbnb Tackles Negative Press With Diversity Push

Posted by Teri Schroder on Jun 6th, 2016

Airbnb has been in the news a lot in the past few months and little of it has been good news. Last week, the company was in the news when an Airbnb host in North Carolina used racist language to tell a woman who had just booked a room... More »

Wal-Mart Takes On Amazon With Grocery Delivery Service

Posted by Teri Schroder on Jun 3rd, 2016

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) has decided to directly challenge Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) in the grocery arena by adding store to door delivery service in select areas of the country. Before the start of its annual meeting on Friday,... More »

Exelon Starts Plan For Closure Of Two Illinois Plants

Posted by Teri Schroder on Jun 2nd, 2016

Exelon Corp. (NYSE:EXC) has announced plans to close two of its nuclear plants in Illinois. In a statement, the company said that it will close the Clinton Power Station in Clinton on June 1, 2017, and the Quad Cities Generating Station... More »

Tesla Model 3 Owners Won’t Have Free Access To Supercharger Stations

Posted by Teri Schroder on Jun 1st, 2016

The nearly 400,000 people that have already put down a deposit with Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) for the forthcoming Model 3 got an unpleasant surprise Tuesday. Chief Executive Elon Musk said at Tesla’s annual shareholders’... More »

Do Culture and Geography Play into Sleep Patterns?

Posted by Dan Childress on May 8th, 2016

The human animal is a complex and yet we are all made, mostly, the same way. For example, we all need food and water and oxygen for our cells to properly divide and multiply and replenish. Also, we all share sleep in common. But just... More »

Babies Do Not Naturally Imitate—But they Do Learn In Time

Posted by Dan Childress on May 7th, 2016

Over the past several decades, researchers have conducted several studies to examine how human babies are capable of imitating facial expressions and hand gestures and even some vocalizations within the first few weeks of life. And... More »

Tesla Model 3 Pre-Orders Nearing 300,000, Stock Falls After The Market Close (TSLA)

Posted by Dan Childress on Apr 4th, 2016

Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) continues it roll with the upside no where in sight, or is there? Shares of Tesla stock jumped Friday, gaining $7.82, or 3.4 percent, to close at $237.59, after the company introduced the long awaited “more... More »

Mediterranean Diet May Provide Better Bone Health for Postmenopausal Women

Posted by Dan Childress on Mar 29th, 2016

More and more health officials have advocated for the Mediterranean diet over the past few years as continuous studies demonstrate both the immediate and long term health benefits. Sure enough, too, a new study suggests that the Mediterranean... More »

Confident Sanders Sweeps Three Caucuses to Close the Gap on Hilary Clinton

Posted by Dan Childress on Mar 29th, 2016

Sweeping all three Democratic caucuses on Saturday—in Washington State, Alaska, and Hawaii—Bernie Sanders is quickly closing the gap on Hillary Clinton’s marginal lead for the Democratic presidential nomination. These wins... More »

GDP Revised and Increases, Corporate Profits Down

Posted by Dan Childress on Mar 25th, 2016

Gross domestic product increased at a 1.4 percent annual rate instead of the previously reported 1.0 percent pace, the Commerce Department said on Friday in its third GDP estimate. GDP growth was initially estimated to have risen at... More »

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