BATS Exchange has been an almost stealth success in the world of trading stocks. In about four years it now claims to have about 10% of the US equity trading ... Read Full Story »
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) issued an SEC filing noting that it and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) have extended the negotiating time on the previously announced search pact. Without getting to ... Read Full Story »
Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) is the clear leader of the private-sector public education companies. Yet, that leadership position is coming with some severe pain after its earnings. Apollo reported ... Read Full Story »
Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is becoming a case study on how to run a medical testing products company into the ground. The diagnostic test maker has more problems other than ... Read Full Story »
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has a couple of issues on the legal and regulatory front for this week. Last night, it announced that it has reached an agreement ... Read Full Story »
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to issue an Investor Alert yesterday called "Leveraged and Inverse ETFs: Specialized Products with Extra Risks for Buy-and-Hold ... Read Full Story »
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.(NYE: BRK-A) (BRK-B) had its earnings and quarterly report last Friday, but the aftermath this week has shown more derivative criticism. But more importantly, issues over SEC correspondence ... Read Full Story »
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) has reached a settlement with the SEC regarding four accounting matters in 2002 and 2003. Yep, 2002 and 2003. This has enough of a look-back ... Read Full Story »
Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN) was a stock we screened early this morning in pre-market hours for its active trading at VSInvestor.com. We noted that this one was getting ... Read Full Story »
We are starting to get more information out of the Securities and Exchange Commission on how it plans to go after some of the abuses which have been prevalent in ... Read Full Story »
CNBC's David Faber just reported that the SEC will be charging former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo with insider trading and disclosure violations for stock sales from 2006 and beyond. Interestingly ... Read Full Story »
There is an interesting question that we would like to pose after hearing about an 800 million share or 825 million share secondary coming from Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: ... Read Full Story »
If you thought that things could not get much stranger at Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) or at Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM), they may have taken an even stranger turn than ... Read Full Story »
Why did the Obama administration name investment banker Steven Rattner as the head of auto task force knowing that New York prosecutors were investigating whether he had a role in ... Read Full Story »
The Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, has voted to loosen its rules for the (now dreaded) balance sheet act of mark-to-market valuation for accounting. Many will argue that this ... Read Full Story »