Year: <span>2009</span>

An American father got to take his son home from Brazil after a horrendous custody battle with the child’s step-father which lasted for five years.No one would be shocked if “The National...
Moody’s reports that credit card charge-offs by financial firms hit 10.56% in November. This represents sums that lenders feel they will not be able to collect .The credit rating agency expects...
Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky Lab Americas made a number of either intemperate or prescient comments to USA Today. It may take a year to find out if he is a fool or a profit. Schouwenberg predicts...
Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce operations at Neiman Marcus and Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) was particularly bad this shopping season based on research covering the 40 largest US retailers based...
Reuters:   GMAC will get $3.5 billion in additional fund from the government.Reuters:   Oil rose near $80 on low supply and the economic recovery.Reuters:   Share in JAL dropped over 20% on...
The DJIA average against the Nikkei 225 has the indices almost tied.The Dow closed 10,545 and the Nikkei at 10,546.Douglas A. McIntyre Sponsored: Find a Qualified Financial Advisor Finding a...
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .9% to 10,545. JAL fell sharply again on bankruptcy fears. The Hang Seng was off a small fraction to 21,496. China Life (NYSE:LFC) dropped. The Shanghai...
Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL) is about to disappear.  The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) acquisition is set to close this week.  Some have criticized this $4.2 billion cash and stock deal,...
Memo to airline CEOs: Gerald Arpey, AMR (NYSE:AMR); Richard Anderson, Delta (NYSE:DAL) & Larry Kellner, Continental (NYSE:CAL).Subject: Vigilante Row SeatingNow that Homeland Security Secretary Janet...
The recent headlines over the short interest showed a rise on the NYSE and NASDAQ.  In terms of the Top 50 NYSE Jumps In Shorts, a couple key stocks stand out.  For NYSE stocks, short increased...
The patent case between Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is not new.  But news this morning on the direction which Nokia is willing to take is a move in a new direction.  Nokia...
Med BioGene Inc. has filed for an initial public offering in the United States.  Technically this may not be a formal IPO because it trades in Canada where the company is based.  We do not have the...
These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active trader alerts.  We have detailed links over on each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie...
Updated throughout the day.A “meltdown” is coming for the bond market (CNBC)GM will try to sell down its inventories of Pontiacs and Saturns by offering huge incentives (WSJ)Home prices dropped...
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in a thin week of coverage and Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Outperform...