Electric Cars: The Right and Wrong Reasons for Buying
When all is said and done, it's all about the actual driving experience.
MPNnow: Local Business
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The Digital Skeptic: Eerie How Web's Future Looks Like Useless Erie Canal
Wonder of the world? Once, but it's not too early to call out the vision of a 50-million-mile Web trench to nowhere.
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This Is How Much Women Love Smartphones and Not You
Most women in a survey would give up sex before their smartphone -- which they'll use to break up with you.
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5 Reasons the Housing Market Will Keep On Rising
Home Depot's strong showing is just a bellwether of a good housing market to come, a Realtors group says.
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What You Wear to the Office Still Matters
A study shows 80% of U.S executives still say clothing choices are a big factor in hiring and promotions
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10 Family Vehicles You Can Still Look Cool In
Not ready to give in the minivan yet? Here are 10 vehicles with a sporty, urban and not-at-all parental facade.
Your Career
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5 Things to Know About Small Business This Week: May 24
The SBA steps up lending to military veterans; Google plans to transform small business; is there disaster aid for Okla. small businesses?; Quiznos/Smashburger founders' debut pizza concept; young employees' need mentoring.
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What You Wear to the Office Still Matters
A study shows 80% of U.S executives still say clothing choices are a big factor in hiring and promotions
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14 Good Jobs That Don't Require a College Degree
New study identifies good careers where a high school diploma is enough.
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The Deal: Airline Unions Sign Pact To Ward Off Teamsters
Unions representing US Air and American ground workers agreed to work together to head off a Teamster takeover.
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Top 7 Things You Should Never Ask Your Intern to Do
Interns may be eager and affordable, but it doesn't mean you should trust them with every job.
Jim Cramer's Investing Ideas
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Cramer's Top Stock Picks: UNP CRM MWE HPQ ECOM
Cramer is riding the Union Pacific, thinks MarkWest is a great MLP and is in the clouds over Salesforce.com.
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'Mad Money' Lightning Round: Lumber Liquidators Is a Buy
Cramer loves ConocoPhillips and thinks Rentech Nitrogen is a keeper.
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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: The Market and the Machines
U.S. markets are no longer bound to other countries, Cramer said, but now the machines are in control.
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'Mad Money' Lightning Round: I Like CVS Over Rite Aid
Cramer wants you to wait on Corning and AT&T and he's watching Oracle.
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Cramer's Top Stock Picks: CLH SIX WFM
Investors can clean up with Clean Harbors, have fun with Six Flags and dine out on Whole Foods, Cramer said.
National Top Stories
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5 Things to Know About Small Business This Week: May 24
The SBA steps up lending to military veterans; Google plans to transform small business; is there disaster aid for Okla. small businesses?; Quiznos/Smashburger founders' debut pizza concept; young employees' need mentoring.
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Stocks to Watch: Procter & Gamble, Pandora, Abercrombie & Fitch
Procter & Gamble is bringing back A.G. Lafley as CEO.
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TheDeal: Apax Offers to Take Back Rue21 in $1.1B Deal
Apax Partners will be taking back a greatly expanded unit. In addition to the deal, rue21 announced preliminary first quarter earnings.
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Stocks Fall as Fed, China Jolt Global Markets
Major U.S. stock averages on Thursday dip on fears of a Fed pullback and a China slowdown.
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Guggenheim BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond (BSCK) Shares Cross Below 200 DMA
In trading on Thursday, shares of the Guggenheim BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond ETF crossed below their 200 day moving average of $21.21, changing hands as low as $21.20 per share. Guggenheim BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond shares are currently trading up about 0.1% on the day.
Daily Videos
Mobile & Gadgets
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Pandora Surges on Revenue Strength
Pandora shares are jumping in afterhours trading as investors cheer its revenue results.
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Windows Ad Turns The Table On Apple
Microsoft's new operating system TV ad compares "Apples" to Windows.
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Apple: Keep Tim Cook's Feet to the Fire
Don't associate Tim Cook's performance on Capitol Hill with his ability to innovate at Apple.
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This Is How Much Women Love Smartphones and Not You
Most women in a survey would give up sex before their smartphone -- which they'll use to break up with you.
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Bloomberg's 'Spygate' Marks Murdoch's Latest Salvo
The New York Post has played pitbull as News Corp. attempts to chip away at Bloomberg's profitable analytics business.
Taxes & Regulations
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Tesla Is Just a Winning Stimulus as Fourth U.S. Automaker Emerges
Why taxpayers will only be able to view Tesla as a winning stimulus.
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Why JPMorgan Will Always Be a Better Villain Than Apple
'We love the iPhone and the iPad,' isn't a great way to shame a company.
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Apple Would Do Better Spending that Cash
Apple's should step out of a politically charged debate on taxation and into growth mode.
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Workers Know It: In Retirement Planning, They're On Their Own
Workers are taking responsibility for their finances at levels unseen in recent history, a study shows.
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Why the End of 'Craft' Beer Is Just a Tax Break Away
In this civil war, it's brewer against brewer and the BEER Act against the Small BREW Act in Washington, D.C.
Sports Business
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4 Stocks Moving The Consumer Non-Durables Industry Upward
TheStreet Ratings group highlights 4 stocks pushing the consumer non-durables industry higher today.
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OI, RL, NKE And COH, 4 Consumer Non-Durables Stocks Pushing The Industry Lower
TheStreet Ratings group highlights 4 stocks pushing the consumer non-durables industry lower today.
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Top Insider Trades: RH, AMBI, LULU, CYCC
The top 10 open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the SEC Wednesday.
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Under Armour Reaches New 52-Week High (UA)
Under Armour (NYSE:UA) hit a new 52-week high Wednesday as it is currently trading at $64.96, above its previous 52-week high of $64.47 with 753,172 shares traded as of 11:35 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 1.5 million shares over the past 30 days.
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Lululemon Reaches New 52-Week High (LULU)
Lululemon Athletica (Nasdaq:LULU) hit a new 52-week high Tuesday as it is currently trading at $82.11, above its previous 52-week high of $81.77 with 1.5 million shares traded as of 3 p.m. ET. Average volume has been 2.9 million shares over the past 30 days.
Automotive
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Tesla's Elon Musk: A Financial Wizard
Tesla's DOE loan repayment speaks volumes about CEO Elon Musk's financial savvy.
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Chrysler to Tesla: Not So Fast on Payback Claim
Tesla says it's the only U.S. automaker to repay its federal loans, but Chrysler paid back its loans in 2011.
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Morning Briefing: 10 Things You Should Know
U.S. stock futures fall; Japanese stocks nosedive; HP earnings top estimates; Ford closing plants in Australia; Pandora to report earnings.
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Electric Cars: The Right and Wrong Reasons for Buying
When all is said and done, it's all about the actual driving experience.
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Stocks to Watch: HP, Ford, Sears, Gap
Hewlett-Packard posts first-quarter earnings that top expectations.
Real Estate
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Fannie Freddie Rally Returns With a Vengeance
Fannie shares now up 700% year to date, while preferred shares lag.
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Taubman's Tasty Preferred Shares
The common shares of the shopping-mall owner are expensive, but its preferred shares are worth a look.
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Apax Partners Retreads Rue21 Amid Retail Buyout Boom
Rue21 has agreed to its second buyout by private equity firm Apax Partners.
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Starwood Upgraded as Capital Return Eyed
Hotelier seen sitting on $7 in excess capital that could be returned to shareholders.
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Should You Give Your Realtor a Second Chance?
NEW YORK (MainStreet)—Hiring a realtor to sell your house typically involves signing a four-month contract with the real estate agency. Also see: 5 Questions to Ask…
Luxury & Leisure
5 Delightful Strawberry Cocktails for Warmer Weather
In honor of National Strawberry month, here are some of the coolest strawberry cocktails being served.
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How Dale Katechis Made Oskar Blues Beer a Can-Do Beer
Here's how a craft brewer converted a town of good ol' boys, made cans a standard and leapt cross-country.
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Food Trends At Their Freshest in San Diego
In Southern California, here's you should eat to catch some of the hottest spring menu trends.
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10 Reasons to Stop Being a Jerk and Drink a Fruit Beer
You'll throw a withered lime into a Corona, but won't try a beer brewed with apricot? Time to rethink that.
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Media, Not Maple Leafs, Should Be Ashamed
Media outlets on both sides of the border failed to provide meaningful or necessary context alongside their coverage of Monday's Game Seven collapse in Boston.
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Is The NHL Really Still the No. 4 Sport?
The question must be asked: Is the NHL in any financial or cultural position to call itself a 'major' U.S. sport?
Markets
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock averages dropped Thursday after a choppy trading session, as investors worried the Federal Reserve would scale back stimulus and China could be headed for a slowdown.
A better-than-expected jobless claims report gave way to worries that the labor market was indeed improving and would encourage the Federal Reserve to taper its bond-buying program. Manufacturing data in China indicated an unexpected contraction in manufacturing activity in the country, culminating into the steepest decline for the Nikkei 225 in Japan since the aftermath of the tsunami and nuclear disaster in March 2011. The index closed down 7.3%.
"We had about a 3% intraday move to the downside from yesterday's high to today's low based upon what came out of the Fed yesterday," said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors. Equities did retrace from their intraday lows by midday. "This market has gone vertically . . . and this is the most hated rally in the history of the stock market . . . and I expect down 3% some cash started to come into the market at the margin."
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