Investing in Stocks

LinkedIn is functional, but it’s not necessarily entertaining in the way that vacation photos or pithy 140-character one-liners can be. Read more

It’s becoming risky to invest in companies that have recently gone public. A recurring question is whether a stock’s meteoric rise on day one will hold up. Read more

The drop for U.S. Steel stock has been dramatic. It lost over a third of its value from the beginning of June to the low in July. Read more

Last week MasterCard reported a slim 1% gain in second-quarter revenue, but it would have been considerably stronger were it not for currency headwinds. Read more

GM says it will invest $1 billion into the Indian auto market. It will be a manufacturing hub for its vehicles, but more importantly, a key sales market. Read more

Once the Supreme Court essentially ruled that Obamacare was here to stay, the race was on for already-big health insurance companies to growth even larger. Read more

Without a problem to solve, there’s no real business model. So Facebook is basically a big advertising machine. Read more

UPS earnings for the second quarter were wobbly. Domestic revenue was up 1.59%, but international revenue declined badly, down 6.39%. Read more

The success of the Square IPO may depend on the continued success of digital payments competitor PayPal, which was spun off from eBay earlier this month. Read more