Ford (F) is about the only major automaker in the world not mounting a recall effort involving millions of cars, and its investors are noticing.
With the Dow Jones slipping 1.6 percent (^DJI), the S&P 500 diving 2 percent (^GSPC) and the Nasdaq sliding 3 percent (^IXIC) yesterday, investors were hoping for better news today to end the skid.
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), which provides energy services to producers of natural gas products, as well as to producers of crude oil and refined liquids,raised the quarterly cash dividend it pays to partners to $0.71 per common unit, or $2.84 per unit on an annualized basis.
A rare strain of soil-born fungus is imperiling as much as 95 percent of all bananas imported by North America and Europe.
Shares of Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) partly recovered today after opening down more than 2 percent due to a new recall of more than 6.7 million vehicles.
As North America continues to redefine the oil and natural gas landscape, another sector is getting swamped in its wake: offshore energy exploration.