SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google parent company Alphabet beat Wall Street expectations for its fourth quarter earnings Monday, although its stock slid in after-hours trading. The company reported profit of $8.9 billion on revenue of...
Read MoreNew Jersey gambling regulators say its sportsbooks lost $4.6 million on $34.9 million in Super Bowl wagers, the first major sporting event for bettors since sports gambling was legalized in the state last year. The New Jersey...
Read MoreThe Barchart Chart of the Day belongs to the utility company AES Corp (AES). I found the stock by sorting Barchart's Top Stock to Own list first by the most frequent number of new highs in the last month then used the...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Facebook, trudging through its awkward teenage years, is turning 15 on Monday. Launched in 2004 as “TheFacebook,” the service was originally intended only for Harvard students. It’s now a...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls are forging ahead with “Medicare-for-all,” but others are taking a more cautious approach. They’re flagging the political risks of passing a...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to describe the state of the union as he wants it to be, not how it really is. In day-to-day comments, he routinely inflates the magnitude of what he’s done, grandly claiming,...
Read MoreALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s income tax receipts are down more than $2 billion so far, creating a significant and serious state budget deficit that is mainly caused by last year’s Republican-led federal tax cuts,...
Read MoreBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A company developing an $800 million oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota has cleared another hurdle by obtaining a state water permit. State Engineer Garland Erbele...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Tesla is buying the battery company Maxwell Technologies Inc. about $218 million in stock. The deal gives Tesla a boost in battery technology as it tries to cut costs and mass produce electric cars. Those...
Read MoreMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A coalition of labor unions and a Democratic lawmaker filed another lawsuit Monday challenging measures Wisconsin Republicans approved in a lame-duck session, alleging in part that the new laws illegally...
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