New data released by comScore shows that US internet users watched more than 15 billion videos last month. Almost 40% of those were watched on Google (GOOG) sites, most of them on YouTube. The…
OPEC ministers are indicating that when they meet later this month, they may cut production by two million barrels a day. That would be on top of a similar cut in September. Neither the…
Chrysler would like several billion dollars as a part of the initial car company bailout and says that it is close to bankruptcy. In an essay in Bloomberg, Jonathan Weil points out that the…
It is relatively easy to count the Russian czars. There were twenty-six from Ivan IV to Nicholas II. That does not count the grand princes that ruled before them, but it still puts Russia…
Energy stocks have taken a pounding since crude oil prices started falling in July. In virtually every part of the energy business, share prices for the premiere companies are off by as much as…
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) followed the path of other chip stocks and came out with lower guidance last night. This was on the heels of atrocious guidance from Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) and National…
Today 24/7 Wall St.named its annual CEO of the Year James A. Skinner of McDonald’s (MCD). He was picked from a field of ten executives which we profiled over the last ten days. Skinner…
Clayton Williams Energy (NASDAQ:CWEI) is a small-cap oil & gas E&P company that has seen its share price fall by more than 70% a 52-week high of $122.50 to close yesterday at $33.81. The…
Duncan Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE:DEP) announced yesterday that it had purchased limited partnership interests in several midstream assets belonging to Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD). These two companies have more in common than just…
It is no secret that the IPO market has gone to hell in a hand basket. How many deals have we had since summer in the U.S. and abroad? One real IPO came and…
Pali Research took the bold step of downgrading the Mouse House, The Walt Disney Company (DIS), to neutral saying the valuation gap with its large cap media peers cannot be ignored. Pali notes that…
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) today outlined its drug pipeline and has reaffirmed its guidance given last week. Merck plans to emerge next year and into the next decade leaner and more responsive…
Some investors are still clinging to the hope that the share prices of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) will recover with financial help from the federal government. Both stocks trade below $1…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we are seeing this Tuesday morning: AutoDesk (ADSK) Started as Buy at KeyBanc. Covanta (CVA) Started as Buy at Jefferies. Smithfield Foods (SFD)…
The Washington Post once again did what it does so well. It uncovered some nasty documents, in this case about Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). "Internal Freddie Mac documents show that senior…