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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Tiffany: The Rich Got Richer

Posted: March 22, 2010 at 6:30 am

The rich must be getting richer again. Tiffany (TIF) reported its revenue for the quarter that ended January 31 was up 17% to $981 million. EPS moved up to $1.09 from ...
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Toyota Shareholders Sue Over Falling Stock Price

Posted: March 22, 2010 at 5:09 am

Toyota (TM) is already facing product liability suits over defects in its recalled cars. The settlement to people who claim injury could hit $5 billion according to several industry experts. ...
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Car Sales To Have Huge Surge In March But At Big Cost To Firms

Posted: March 22, 2010 at 4:59 am

Edmunds reports that incentives have increased the public's "intent to purchase" Toyota's by 40% in March. That may help the Japanese car company some, but its competitors have rolled out incentives ...
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4G Or Not 4G, That Is The Question

Posted: March 22, 2010 at 4:36 am

Sprint (S) is gambling nearly its entire future on a 4G WiMax network that it is installing around the country. The massive infrastructure project has the financial support of several large ...
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Pepsi Cut The Sugar, And Now It Cuts The Salt

Posted: March 22, 2010 at 4:20 am

Recently, Kraft (KFT) made a great public relations noise about its plans to cut the salt levels in its foods distributed in North America by 10% over a two-year period. Not ...
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Media Digest: 3/22/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 22, 2010 at 2:56 am

Reuters:   The Obama health care bill passed the House and Senate. Reuters:   The Senate will begin a fight on financial reform Reuters:   Arrow agreed to a buyout from Shell (RDS.A) ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 11)

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:12 pm

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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The $70 Billion A Year American Obesity Tax

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:03 pm

No matter what legislation comes out of the frenzied health care debate, economists say that it will cost the American taxpayer a great deal. Estimates run the gamut from the ...
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The 15 CEOs Who Should Be Paid $1 A Year

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 6:47 pm

Lee Iacocca, Chrysler’s CEO in 1979, worked for $1 a year while his company paid back taxpayers $1.2 billion in loan guarantees. Edward Liddy, former CEO of Allstate (ALL), was ...
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Bernanke Versus The First Amendment

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:33 am

The Federal Reserve understandably does not want to give up the secrets of which banks were most in need of rescue as the credit markets melted down in late 2008. ...
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US Currency Wars With China Looms

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:10 am

A trade war between the US and China, with tariffs and taxes, recriminations and retaliation, may be a modestly troubling prospect compared to a currency war. China's Commerce Minister Chen ...
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IMF Warns US And Other Developed Nations Of Unprecedented Austerity

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 6:16 am

The need for a new and tremendous belt-tightening by the US government and the costs of the recession to consumers is about to hit like a tidal wave. And the drops in government ...
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Signs Of The Apocalypse: Dozens Of TARP Banks Miss Payments

Posted: March 20, 2010 at 11:01 am

Among the things that the Treasury Department elects to say very little about is how many of the firms that still owe the government TARP money are not even paying ...
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The Unusual Suspects (ADBE, AIXG, GME, HAS, BBY, CIEN, LGF, ORCL, OSIP, PALM, SOMX, TEVA, TIF, CSCO, PFE, AMGN, RIMM)

Posted: March 20, 2010 at 9:58 am

This week is a jam-packed list full of the Unusual Suspects.  We have many earnings reports, enough that we had to screen out some, and we have many issues to ...
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The Cold War Long Over, Russian Firm Will Make Air Force Bid

Posted: March 20, 2010 at 6:34 am

Russian cold warrior Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev is long dead and with him the battle he fought with John Kennedy when Soviet--US military tensions were at their apex. Those times are remote ...
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