UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) has made some rather bold predictions for 2009. What is interesting here is that these projections are not showing continued growth nor showing total dominance. But the possible surprise…
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is still in a pinch despite more than a 100% bounce from recent lows, and its still-relatively new CEO is caught right in the middle of a storm he might…
Yahoo! (YHOO) has become a "rumor an hour" company. Over the weekend, the Times of London said the portal had a deal with Microsoft (MSFT) for its search business. As part of that arrangement…
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) just released its November auto sales, and it is pretty hard to get excited about the data. The company sold 118,818 units in November, below the 119,000 Edmunds.com predicted. …
Until today, every drop of ethanol used in transportation fuel has been moved by trucks or train cars. This added to the cost of getting ethanol to market and to the amount of total…
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is submitting its plan to Congress, and interestingly enough it does not sound as dire as some might have guessed based upon the auto company’s prior presentations. Ford has…
OPEC is once more rattling the saber of crude oil production cuts in an effort to prop up the price of the black stuff. Whether the cartel will be successful in its aims is…
Analysts continue to slash estimates on bank stocks. Today it was Bank of America’s (BAC) turn. Citigroup lowered its estimates and price target on Bank of America due to marks and higher credit costs.…
By John Tamny RealClearMarkets In the days leading up to last week’s Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving shopping day when many retailers become profitable for the year, Americans were inundated with lots of media commentary…
With oil prices dropping, the cost of jet fuel is down by more than 50%. That makes the rush to merge airlines which accelerated earlier this year look like an idea whose time came…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is providing its scheduled GE Capital update. GE sees fourth quarter earnings at $0.50 to $0.52 EPS range rather than the $0.50 to $0.56 EPS range previously offered. It…
When Chevron (NYSE:CVX) swallowed Texaco a few years back, one of the morsels it ingested was a claim for environmental damage to several Texaco drilling sites in Ecuador. Unlike Chevron’s recent exoneration in a…
Just as with natural gas and crude oil, electricity use is off as the economy heads into its second year of recession. The lack of demand for electricity affects the bottom line for generators…
These are the early bird analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen this Tuesday morning with more than two hours to the open: National Grid (NYSE: NGG) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Qiagen (NASDAQ:…
Forget how Wal-Mart (WMT) is doing. Sears (SHLD) is the real face of retail. Between its Sears and K-Mart stores, it has 3,000 outlets and 330,000 employees. And, it is dying a quick death.…