Now that Scott Thompson is out as CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Ross Levinsohn is in as interim chief executive, the newly constituted board needs to keep its new ... Read Full Story »
24/7 Wall St. often looks at the key earnings reports scheduled for the week ahead. We have the bulk of the S&P 500 earnings behind us and we are now ... Read Full Story »
Philp Falcone receives extensions from creditors owed money by his high-speed wireless company LightSquared. (Reuters) Social gifting is a growing part of e-commerce. (Reuters) Barron’s says Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) ... Read Full Story »
Citigroup (NYSE: C) losses an investor vote on executive compensation. (Reuters) Many experts say Spain cannot avoid a bailout. (Reuters) Nestle is close to a deal to buy Pfizer’s (NYSE: ... Read Full Story »
The heads of the BRIC nations say the pace of IMF-led reforms concerns them. (Reuters) Facebook cuts trading of its stock in the secondary markets. (Reuters) The board of Goldman Sachs ... Read Full Story »
24/7 Wall St. has decided to calculate the total value of the Star Wars franchise ahead of the release of the 3D film "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" and while ... Read Full Story »
We are entering into the last waves of the normalized quarterly earnings reports for companies with December 31 quarter-end dates, and we are entering the first waves of the earnings ... Read Full Story »
These are some of Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Raised to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs. AMERIGROUP ... Read Full Story »
Short sellers moved out of stocks that have fallen recently. Perhaps they believe there will be a large rally in the market. There is little else to make the shares ... Read Full Story »
The pace of stock buyback announcements in the month of August was almost unbelievable. The pace was stronger at the start of the month when earnings were still coming in ... Read Full Story »
Billionaire and hedge fund manager John Paulson of Paulson & Co. and of Paulson Management is a widely followed equity hedge fund manager for whale watchers. He has made ... Read Full Story »
It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled. What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly ... Read Full Story »
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), News ... Read Full Story »
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp (NASDAQ: AMTD), E Trade ... Read Full Story »
There has been enough good news about News Corp in the last two days that the stock appears headed back to the level where it traded before the phone hacking ... Read Full Story »