Quantcast

Monthly Archives: August 2010

Google Launches Real Time Search

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 5:37 am

Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched its realtime search product saying, "we’re making our most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools to help ...
Read Full Story »

A Flicker Of Economic Life In Japan And The UK

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 5:20 am

There were tiny signs of life in two of the world's largest economies, anomalies in a period when the global economy may be falling into a double dip recession. Japan ...
Read Full Story »

Boeing Delays Dreamliner Again, Management Under More Pressure

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 5:01 am

Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced that the delivery of its 787 Dreamliner would be delayed until the mid-first quarter of 2011, the 8th delay since the aircraft's creation was announced more ...
Read Full Story »

Media Digest (8/27/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 4:01 am

Reuters:   Bernanke may admit the economy is weak but not five details of the Fed's plans. Reuters:   Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) outbid Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) for 3Par (NYSE: PAR) by offering ...
Read Full Story »

Icebergs On The Horizon?

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 5:40 pm

Like great art, pornography and classic rock, everyone knows an economic recovery when they see one.  Or do they? Until recently, many economists were steadfastly arguing that the worst economic ...
Read Full Story »

Ambac Withdraws Shelf Registration (ABK)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 4:51 pm

Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) has  telegraphed filing with deep implications.  The company withdrew its earlier shelf registration statement with the SEC that would have allowed it to sell ...
Read Full Story »

3PAR: HP Trumps Dell After Dell Trumped HP (HPQ, DELL, PAR)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has just announced that it is retaliating against a Dell inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) bid to acquire 3PAR, Inc. (NYSE: PAR).  The new offer is $27.00 per ...
Read Full Story »

20 of 30 DJIA Stocks Out-Yield 10-Year Treasury, 8 Out-Yield 30-Year (T, CVX, DD, JNJ, KFT, MRK, PFE, VZ, BA, CAT, GE, HD, INTC, KO, MCD, MMM, PG, TRV, UTX, XOM)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 2:22 pm

What happens when Dow Jones Industrial Average components have dividend yields on the common stocks that are above the yield of the 10-year Treasury Note or even the 30-Year Treasury ...
Read Full Story »

Toyota Breaks Another One Million Cars–Will Fix Them

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) probably recalled as many cars in 2010 as  the company has made since it was founded. Today, Toyota added to that list--if that is possible. The ...
Read Full Story »

Berkshire Hathaway Wants To Lock Up Wesco (BRK-A, BRK-B, WSC)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) (NYSE: BRK-A) is trying to make yet another deal in a portfolio holding from its entire public stock holdings.  Warren Buffett and friends are offering ...
Read Full Story »

Shell & Cosan JV Highlights Ethanol (RDS-A, CZZ, CDXS, ADM, VLO, PEIX)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 12:39 pm

Last February, Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS-A) and Brazil's Cosan Ltd. (NYSE:CZZ) signed an agreement to create a joint venture to distribute and sell cane ethanol in Brazil. The two ...
Read Full Story »

Online Privacy Is Largely a Myth

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 11:30 am

The most unhip companies in America are wise to social media and employees better watch what they say on sites such as Facebook and Twitter.  Now, lawmakers in Germany are ...
Read Full Story »

A Weak Endorsement for National Bank of Greece (NBG)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 10:59 am

National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is trading higher this morning on a key analyst upgrade.  The problem is that the upgrade is hardly an endorsement.  Goldman Sachs raised ...
Read Full Story »

A Stealth IPO: Whitestone REIT (WSR)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 9:45 am

The IPO market has not been so kind in 2010, and it has been far from predictable in general.  There is a stealth IPO this morning that is flying under ...
Read Full Story »

Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/26/2010)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 8:54 am

Updated throughout the day. Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) will show new iPods on September 1. The bankrupt Tribune Company may offer its chairman's job to former Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) ...
Read Full Story »