Monday Earnings: McDonald’s, Allergan, CNA Financial, Transocean, Akamai, Cognex, TrueBlue, Whiting Petroleum, Loews, Dana, Diamond Offshore, Vornado Realty, Tenet Healthcare, Texas Roadhouse 8:30 a.m. Personal income 9:45 a.m. Chicago PMI 10:00 a.m. Pending home sales 10:30 a.m. Dallas Fed manufacturing Tuesday FOMC meets Vehicle sales Earnings: Apple, Merck, Pfizer, Archer Daniels Midland, Under Armour, Aetna,…

1. You don’t differentiate your knees as « left knee » and « right knee » anymore. Instead, you call them « good knee » and « bad knee. » 2. You start every email with « Sorry to get back to you so late. » 3. You now buy expensive cheese not occasionally. 4. And you buy wine based on factors outside of price.…

Shares in DocuSign and Smartsheet soared after the two business software companies went public on Friday. DocuSign, which specializes in software for signing documents digitally, was up 37% in its first day of trading to $39.73. Meanwhile, Smartsheet, which sells software to manage business tasks, rose 30% to $19.55. The two IPOs are part of…

BoschIs there still a future for the diesel engine? According to Bosch, the answer is yes—this week the German company announced it had made a breakthrough by combining a number of existing technologies, which means that modern turbodiesel engines can still make good power and deliver excellent fuel efficiencies. At the same time, Bosch says…

65 Jahre nach der Teilung steht Korea plötzlich vor einer Zeitenwende.Noch vor einem Jahr war der Krieg in Fernost viel näher als der Frieden – weil ein Diktator glaubte, sein grausames Regime mit Atomwaffen absichern zu können. Nun ist Kim Jong-un weder zum Menschenfreund noch zum Demokraten geworden. Er hat nur eingesehen, dass er sein…

A few months ago, I wrote about how my one-year-old MacBook Pro’s keyboard keys stopped working if a single piece of dust slipped under there, and more importantly, that neither Apple nor its Geniuses would acknowledge that this was actually a problem. Today, Best Buy announced it is having a significant sale on these computers,…

Vladimir Uglev was run over by a car and left with serious injuries after saying  that he may have helped develop the novichok used in the Salisbury attack. But, although bruised and battered, the Russian scientist is adamant that he will continue to speak out despite fearing that he may be targeted. Speaking after he…