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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Justin Parker | Contributor


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Financial Column | Bad day for earnings and stocks

Yesterday was not a good day for many companies, and Wall Street was feeling the impacts of companies missing their expected sales and earnings reports. On Tuesday, April 26, Apple sales fell for the first time since 2003, and missed analyst estimate earnings per share (EPS) by nine cents and revenue ...

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The collapse of Goldman Sach’s

It seems as though the volatility and slow growth from 2015 might be catching up with some major companies in 2016. Goldman Sach’s recently released their first quarter numbers, which were not pretty. According to a Yahoo! Finance article, based on Goldman’s numbers, “Revenue plunged 40% year-over-year ...

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Financial Column | Why McDonald’s might start crashing

An article was published yesterday by Ken Goldberg of TheStreet.com titled “Charts: McDonald’s Stock is about to Tank.” This title name is shocking enough as it is, but through the use of some number crunching and pointing a few things out on some charts, he predicts that McDonald’s stock is ...

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Stock Spotlight: Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX)

This is a company that many of you probably have never heard of before, but if you follow the financial news, Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a big name recently. On Mar. 14, Valeant was trading at $69.04 but by Mar. 18, was down to trading at $26.98. This dramatic change is something we typically do not ...

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Stock Spotlight: Facebook (FB)

Most people who live in the United States have more than likely heard of Facebook. It is one of the world’s leading social networking services, and on top of managing the social media platform, they also own Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus Virtual Reality. Mark Zuckerberg is the well-known CEO and ...

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Stock watch: Weight Watchers International (WTW)

I’m sure that many of you have heard of Weight Watchers, the company that helps you ideally lose weight in a healthy and relatively quick manner. This company was founded back in 1963 in Queens, New York and has taken the world by storm. The reason I am writing about this stock, however, is its incredible ...

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Stock Spotlight: Apple (AAPL)

In this week’s stock spotlight, I wanted to focus on a company that many people are probably familiar with: Apple. Apple is currently trading at just over $120 per share, but back in June of 2014, they were trading at close to $700 a share. They didn’t drop in price. However, they did decide to ...

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Stock Spotlight: Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG)

Pretty much every college student I know loves Chipotle. It is this near-crazy addiction that many people have that drives Chipotle's success in their restaurant and in the financial marketplace. Chipotle is currently trading at a price of $705.63 per share, which compared to most stocks is extraordinarily ...

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Financial Corner

The first three months of the year are officially over, and as fast as it has moved, it has been quite interesting in the financial world. The stock market, as a whole, has been quite volatile to say the least. According to Yahoo Finance, The Dow Jones has been up, as high as around 18,300, and as low ...

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Financial Piece

The past couple of weeks have been interesting, to say the least, in the financial marketplace. Due to the U.S. economy having improved over the past year with more jobs being created and falling unemployment, the Federal Reserve is considering raising interest rates for the first time since 2006. The ...

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