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  • Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talks at the Automotive World News Congress at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    The Big Threat That's Sending Tesla Shares Lower

    By Michael McDonald, Oilprice.com

    Elon Musk is a genius and a visionary who is almost single handedly changing the future of mankind through three different industries at once. With that said, it’s not clear if investors can easily...

  • Here’s the Type of Gun Americans Are Buying at a Record Pace

    By Chris Morris, CNBC

    Gun sales have never been hotter in the United States. In the past eight years, the number of people who own firearms has nearly doubled — with 2015 setting records, as 23.1 million people applied...

  • A sale sign is seen inside a Target store in Delta, British Columbia January 15, 2015. REUTERS/Ben Nelms

    Why Retailers Still Can’t Get Cyber Monday Right

    By Krystina Gustafson, CNBC

    It's been 365 days since retailers last had their sites flooded by bargain-crazed Cyber Monday shoppers. But sometimes, all the stress tests in the world aren't enough to prevent their pages from...

  • A camera drone operated by a civilian flies near the scene where two buildings were destroyed in an explosion in New York, in this file photo taken March 12, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar/Files

    Chasing Amazon, Walmart Takes to the Skies

    By Nathan Layne, Reuters

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head with...

  • Larry Born, a former Walmart employee from Park Forest, Illinois, takes part in a demonstration for higher wages and better working conditions, outside of a Walmart during Black Friday shopping in Chicago November 28, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Nelles

    Here's Why Wal-Mart's Stock Tumbled This Week

    By Brian Sozzi, The Street

    "Now, when it comes to Wal-Mart, there's no two ways about it: I'm cheap," wrote Wal-Mart ( WMT - Get Report ) founder Sam Walton in his 1992 memoir "Sam Walton: Made in America." If the notoriously...

  • How Nasdaq Screwed Up the Facebook IPO

    By Nancy Miller, The Fiscal Times

    After a lot of “we are ready for the onslaught” preening, the Nasdaq stock exchange fell apart from the minute Facebook (FB) was released for trading.

  • Putting Facebook’s IPO in Perspective

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Let's keep some perspective here. For all the superlatives being tossed around regarding the Facebook IPO – “biggest technology IPO,” “history-making,” “record-breaking” – it's worth keeping in mind...

  • Facebook’s IPO: Why the First-Day Pop Doesn’t Matter

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    The most important and most watched numbers on Facebook’s massive IPO are all in – all but one that is. We know that Facebook’s underwriters priced its stock at $38 a share, at the top of the higher...

  • Facebook: Overhyped, Overpriced, and You May Own It

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Everybody is ogling the fortunes being made from the investors and owners cashing out at Facebook -- Mark Zuckerberg: $1.1 billion, Goldman Sachs taking out nearly the same, and Peter Thiel of PayPal...

  • Pop Goes the Facebook IPO

    By Alexei Anishchuk, Reuters

    Facebook Inc is set to raise up to $18.4 billion in its IPO and become the first U.S. company to be worth more than $100 billion at its debut, as investors bet on a big pop in the stock when it...