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The current rally in the S&P 500 is now in its 117th month, making it the longest-lived bull market since World War II. Investors may be viewing the longevity of the current bull market as a double-edged sword. While grateful for the return of more than 300 percent earned since the market's...

General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) recently secured a $44.3-million modification deal for the delivery of Hydra rockets. The contract has been awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Per the terms of the deal, General Dynamics will provide Hydra rockets to...

With hurricane season in full swing, it makes sense to take a look at the construction market, since it has historically been one of the beneficiaries. This year is expected to be a normal storm year, unlike 2017, which was one of the ten worst years for storms. That said, Hurricane Florence is...

All around the world, and throughout almost every industry, analysts have been puzzling over how the cryptocurrency revolution could eventually come to shape their businesses. That's an important area of investigation, but it also reflects the fact that the wider world may be missing the point...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is buzzing. In August, it became the first company to reach a $1 trillion market value. On Wednesday, all eyes turned to Steve Jobs Theater to see what the tech behemoth would bestow upon consumers waiting to be dazzled. Historically, the consumer reaction to the...

Telecom stocks have trended upward the past five trading session, driven by healthy job growth data and optimism from a U.S. proposal to restart talks with China in the near future to iron out a new trade agreement. Regarding company-specific news, strategic deals, technological...

Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), like most of its peers, is suffering from the industry-wide decline in beer sales. The primary reason for the soft beer sales in the United States has been the shift of consumers to healthier drinking options, which has resulted in consumers gravitating to wine and...

Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) recently won a $49.6 million contract for the procurement of Joint Air-to-Ground missiles (JAGMs). The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Work related to the deal will be carried out in Orlando, FL, and is...

A number of factors have caused the New Zealand Dollar (NZD) to plummet this week, but futher U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods have largely been attributed with sending the currency to lows not seen since 2016. The escalating trade war has also seen the safe haven currencies such...

SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW) received encouraging news on the labor front when its subsidiary — ExpressJet Airlines — inked a tentative deal with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the largest airline pilot union across the globe. Notably, this 3-year provisional agreement with...

The Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ: CG) plans to phase out its Chinese real estate team by the end of this year, per a Bloomberg report. The company, which has been trying to revamp its Asian Unit, has decided to shift its focus from the Chinese real estate market due to decline in investors...

The 2008 financial crisis should have made a deep and lasting impression on the American psyche. Certainly, anyone that was swept up into the subprime mortgage collapse, either as a borrower or as a representative of any of the major firms that faced disaster, would attest to that fact. After all,...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently secured a modification contract to procure an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Aircraft for the Government of Japan. The majority of the work will be carried out in St. Augustine, FL and Syracuse, NY. Valued at $164.3 million, the contract was awarded by...

The U.S. Energy Department's inventory release showed that crude stockpiles recorded a large weekly draw on healthy refinery utilization. The 4.3 million barrels dip pushed storage levels to their lowest since February 2015. But the positive effect from the hefty crude supply draw was more than...