Month: April 2009

VW No.1 Car Company Worldwide? An Industry Where It Does Not Matter

VW may have passed Toyota (TM) as the world’s No.1 car company just as Toyota passed GM (GM) a year…

The Battle For What’s Left Of GM Gets Meaner

The engagement has become hand-to-hand as the fight to see who will make it out of the rubble of the…

Google (GOOG): The Economy In A Tea Cup

When Google (GOOG) reported earnings, earnings which were extraordinary during a poor economic period, for the first quarter, the company’s…

Weekly Apple (AAPL) Headline Roundup: April 17

This was the week analysts stumbled over each other to raise their price targets on Apple prior to next Wednesday’s…

Media Digest 4/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

According to Reuters, banks may be hard hit by the bankruptcy of General Growth (GGP) and future commercial real estate defaults.…

Asia Markets An Europe Open 4/17/2009

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.7% to 8,908. The Hang Seng was up 1% to 15,712. The…

Direxion Launches FAS/FAZ-Like ETFs For T-Bonds (FAS, FAZ, TYD, TYO, TMF, TMV)

Direxion is at it again with triple-leverage ETFs.  If you love trading the financial stocks for triple leverage via the…

GE Full Earnings Primer (GE)

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is on deck for earnings Friday morning.  While the whole market has been hanging on…

Google Slides Past Gatekeepers (GOOG)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is out with its first quarter earnings report. The search and online ad giant posted earnings…

Google’s Earnings Controversy (GOOG, YHOO, BIDU)

This afternoon’s earnings report from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is perhaps one of the most anticipated earnings releases so far…

Best Performing Sectors This Week: Cancer Stocks, Home Furnishing, Aircraft Leasing

Regions Claims Profitability, Slips A Mickey To Bears (RF)

Regions Financial Corp. (NYSE: RF) filed its annual meeting presentation this morning in an SEC filing, and in that filing,…

Introducing the Tarp-o-Meter

Keeping track of who’s paying back. By Gabriel Beltrone and Natalie Matthews of The Big Money Ever drive by your…

Buffett Housing Play: Pay Mortgage If You Lose Your Job (BRK-A)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is known for investing in and owning many businesses which Warren Buffett believes or believed…

Kinder Morgan And Broader LP Distribution Conundrum (KMP, EPD, ENB, BSR)

There could be some trouble ahead in at least some of the entities in the pipeline business and the practice…