24/7 Wall St. will name its annual CEO of the Year next week. The executive will be picked from a field of ten which we will profile this weekThe CEOs ... Read Full Story »
It takes all kinds to make a world. Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research may not be very bright, but he is intrepid.According to an account in Barron's, the analyst ... Read Full Story »
GM (GM) distributed its turnaround plan to Congress. It was almost exactly what the market expected, but it fudges one key issue, which is what happens to the company's finances ... Read Full Story »
Excel Maritime (EXM) Bad period for shipping business. Falls to $3.25 from 52-week high of $60.99.Xenoport (XNPT) New drug fails in study. Drops to $17.90 from 52-week high of $66.34.Sierra ... Read Full Story »
Picking out a CEO to go in technology right now might seem pointless. The argument could be almost any of them if you count share price only. That is doubly ... Read Full Story »
If GM (GM) needed dramatic news to help explain why it needs a bailout from Washington, the car firm got it. Sales at the company were off 41% in November. ... Read Full Story »
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) has made some rather bold predictions for 2009. What is interesting here is that these projections are not showing continued growth nor showing total dominance. ... Read Full Story »
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is still in a pinch despite more than a 100% bounce from recent lows, and its still-relatively new CEO is caught right in the middle of ... Read Full Story »
Yahoo! (YHOO) has become a "rumor an hour" company. Over the weekend, the Times of London said the portal had a deal with Microsoft (MSFT) for its search business. As ... Read Full Story »
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) just released its November auto sales, and it is pretty hard to get excited about the data. The company sold 118,818 units in November, below ... Read Full Story »
Until today, every drop of ethanol used in transportation fuel has been moved by trucks or train cars. This added to the cost of getting ethanol to market and to ... Read Full Story »
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is submitting its plan to Congress, and interestingly enough it does not sound as dire as some might have guessed based upon the auto company's ... Read Full Story »
OPEC is once more rattling the saber of crude oil production cuts in an effort to prop up the price of the black stuff. Whether the cartel will be successful ... Read Full Story »
Xenoport (XNPT) is being beaten up on bad clinical trial date. Details.SolarFun (SOLF) is getting hurt on sub-par earnings. Details.Tessara (TSRA) got some bad news from the ITC. Details.Douglas A. ... Read Full Story »
Analysts continue to slash estimates on bank stocks. Today it was Bank of America's (BAC) turn. Citigroup lowered its estimates and price target on Bank of America due to marks ... Read Full Story »