Household Appliances

Champion Home Builders, Inc. will now be including appliances from Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) in all of its manufactured housing and modular home plants. The agreement between the two Michigan-based companies consists of kitchen and laundry appliances for a number of life stages.

Best 1) Zoom Technologies (NASDAQ: ZOOM): Shares are trading up 39.71% to $4.33 after acquiring new patent licenses from Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM). This development will allow the company to develop new mobile phones for the global market. Stock had been up as much as 54% earlier in the session. 2...

iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) has hit a 52-week high in today's trading. At last check the year-to-date performance of iRobot has been a gain of 39.6%.

According to J.P. Morgan, iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) has been awarded a $230 million IDIQ by NAVSEA to provide MRTS robots, spare parts, repairs, maintenance and training. J.P. Morgan reported that the IDIQ expires in April 2015. “The NAVSEA IDIQ appears to be a replacement of an expiring MTRS program...

Analysts at Merriman upgrade iRobot Corporation (NASDAQ: IRBT) from “neutral” to “buy.” IRBT shares fell 1.22% to close at $31.47 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) announced today that due to decreasing call volume it will consolidate its U.S. contact center network, resulting in the closure of its Yakima, Washington contact center, impacting 160 employees. Approximately 50 jobs will be added to each of the company's two...

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) announced today that Dr. Ray Kilmer, currently Vice President, Technology Development and Deployment, has been appointed Chief Technology Officer, succeeding Dr. Mohammad Zaidi, who has elected to retire. Dr. Kilmer will become a member of Alcoa's Executive Council and will be...

Brian Sozzi of Wall Street Strategies just tweeted that he thinks Whirpool (NYSE: WHR) is cheap at these levels. If you agree with Sozzi, and believe that Whirpool shares are cheap, then perhaps now is a good time to purchase shares. At last check, shares were trading at $86.77, a gain of $2.58,...

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) today filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions against bottom-mount refrigerators from South Korea and an antidumping petition against the same product from Mexico. Two Korean manufacturers, Samsung Electronics (Samsung) and LG Electronics, export...

Global-Tech Advanced Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ: GAI) today announced its financial results for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010. Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 were $24.4 million, compared to $25.7 million for the corresponding quarter in fiscal 2010. Net loss for the...

P&F Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: PFIN) today announced its results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2010. P&F Industries Inc. reported revenue from continuing operations of $50,609,000 and $51,157,000, respectively, for the years December 31, 2010 and 2009. For the year ended...

Yesterday was the first day of spring, and while the weather doesn't feel like it quite yet, your portfolio knows no weather, and these ideas may give a little "spring" to your investments. Spring time is traditionally the best time of the year to plant, garden, lawn care, and generally do all...

KeyBanc Capital Markets is initiating coverage on Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR), with a Buy rating and $99 price target. KeyBanc thinks WHR's sales mixof 70% mature0 and 30% developing markets offers sustainable 5% unit growth. KeyBanc expects U.S. margins to rise incrementally as pricing...

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) shares are up $1.17 to $81.54, a gain of 1.5%. The stock continues to push higher in this tape, so that should be something to focus on for later. 35,000 shares have traded so far today.

By Jared Rosenbaum Aloha ahiahi,So off I go on vacation and apparently the market decided this was a good time to make massive moves up and down every single day. Fortunately for me, the market opened at 4:30am here, which allowed me to watch most of the trading session before anybody was really...