Topics

The leading drug makers aren’t doing enough to gain market share in emerging markets, according to a report that was issued by IMS Health, a research company based in Norwalk, Conn., that tracks prescriptions and other data on drug sales. That’s according to an article in today’s New York Times.

Many people who invest in stocks pay close attention to earnings estimates, and analyst recommendations. And all of that is important. But the key to understanding a company’s financials is financial ratios. Financial ratios are a way of taking a company’s financial statements and putting them into an easily digestible form.

Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) is set to profit from the coming boom in 3D movies. After the success of James Cameron's "Avatar" followed by that of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland", there's no longer any doubt that 3D movies are here to stay. Although 3D movies have been around since the 1950's, they were usually regarded as something of a joke.

A federal appeals court upheld a Federal Communications Commission rule that forces cable companies to make the programming from properties that they own available to rivals on equal terms.