One part of the calculus involved in the cost of Toyota's (TM) recall of 8 million cars is what it will do to the profits of its more than 1,200 US dealers. ... Read Full Story »
Microsoft (MSFT) announced that its revenue rose 14% in the last quarter to $19 billion. EPS rose 57% to $.74. Most of the improvement was due to the sales of ... Read Full Story »
President Obama has decided to propose a $33 billion program to drive new hiring, particularly among America's small businesses. The system would be based on tax credits for every new ... Read Full Story »
Shares in almost every major American company on the most active list fell and in some cases fell sharply on the 28th. The stock of Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), the largest handset chip ... Read Full Story »
Reuters: Congress will probe the Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls. Reuters: Samsung said chip and TV demand is strengthening. Reuters: Some AIG (NYSE:AIG) employees are open to cuts in retention pay. (more...) ... Read Full Story »
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was off 2.1% to 10,198. Toyota (NYSE:TM) dropped more on recall news. The Hang Seng fell 1.2% to 20,122. The Shanghai Composite was down ... Read Full Story »
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has just reported earnings of $0.85 EPS and $9.52 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $0.72 EPS and $9.04 billion. The company sees $6.45 ... Read Full Story »
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has just reported earnings of $0.74 on the headline and $0.60 EPS for non-GAAP earnings and $19.02 billion in revenues. The estimates from Thomson Reuters were ... Read Full Story »
Align Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN) rose over 15.5% to a yearly high of $19.25 after the maker of teeth straightening technology forecast first quarter earnings of $0.12 or more, topping ... Read Full Story »
Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) has been one of the amazing companies in an amazing sector, or at least it was back when the developing world was moving from one meal ... Read Full Story »
The large multinational companies were supposed to have done their layoffs during the first half of 2009, when the recession was at its worst. Those layoffs should have cut as close ... Read Full Story »
Today is effectively what we are penning as the crest of earnings season. Things have changed because of the sell-off seen this morning on options trader valuation and implied percentages. ... Read Full Story »
Since the inception of Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store more than 140,000 applications have been produced by thousands of developers. The debut of Apple's iPad provides a whole new platform for developers to tailor their products ... Read Full Story »
These are this Thursday's top day trader and active trader alerts. We have a link over to VSInvestor.com for each story with more details and analysis: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: ... Read Full Story »
Updated throughout the day. Jeff Zucker, the head of the NBCU unit at GE (NYSE:GE) may be fired (BusinessInsider) The new CEO of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will make a $950,000 salary ... Read Full Story »