Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is about to get a huge amount of shares dumped onto the stock market. Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is set to unload a stake of about 19.6% ... Read Full Story »
It is never a good thing to see a run on the banks. That is what the fears were recently indicating in Greece. The problem is that Spain is a ... Read Full Story »
Alibaba buys back a 20% share held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for a combination of cash and preferred shares worth $7.1 billion. (Reuters) The heads of Samsung and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ... Read Full Story »
Voters in Greece and France turn away from German austerity measures set for the region’s weakest nations. (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) moves into the home monitoring market. (Reuters) Ally Financial ... Read Full Story »
The U.S. stock markets have by and large been decoupled from the woes of Europe most of this year, as well as the slowing of growth in the key markets ... Read Full Story »
European banks are taking it right on the chin, or maybe the chin and the nose. The reports of a bad Spanish debt auction managed to push up borrowing costs ... Read Full Story »
Mergers and acquisitions bankers may become subject to stricter rules for revealing their personal investments as a result of a review now being conducted at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: ... Read Full Story »
If you think ratings agencies do not quite matter any longer, today may be a reminder that they can still create at least some nervousness even if they are just ... Read Full Story »
The U.S. and state attorneys general reach a $25 billion settlement with five banks over mortgage abuses. (Reuters) The Hong Kong division of Alibaba may go private as part of ... Read Full Story »
Glencore and Xtrata agree to a $90 billion merger. (Reuters) Greek leaders face a deal for settling sovereign debt matters as workers strike. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) posts good third-quarter ... Read Full Story »
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) founder and former CEO Jerry Yang leaves the company’s board. (Reuters) The World Bank sharply cuts global growth forecasts. (Reuters) Greece and private creditors race to settle ... Read Full Story »
Zynga posts at the high end of its IPO range and will raise $1 billion. (Reuters) Congress reaches a tentative deal to keep the government open. (Reuters) Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total ... Read Full Story »
Sarkozy and Merkel have gone from killers of the markets to saviors of the market, and oddly enough there is no full resolution yet to the Euro Zone debt crisis ... Read Full Story »
Corporations can spend hundreds of million dollars just so they can put their name on a major league sports stadiums. 24/7 Wall St. looked that the 13 largest stadium-naming rights ... Read Full Story »
These are some of Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ... Read Full Story »