Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco. Twitter may swipe everything else. Officials in San Francisco last week approved a 6-year exemption from what the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed “city’s growth-killing…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) did not exactly get a resounding endorsement today in an afternoon research call. S&P Equity Research decided it was removing its Buy rating that had been in place since March…
Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) has been one of the better performers of the IPO Class of 2010. Its line of prepaid credit cards has grown significantly and the company had grown enough that…
If the US government is truly able to exit the mortgage credit market, that move will be a seismic shift in a 75-year old government commitment to underwrite home ownership in the US. The…
Beware the term “Saving Billions” in the new 2012 White House Budget. The term “saving” is only possible using government accounting. If the general public was presenting this budget, it would be called a…
Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) is trading marginally higher today on news that it is collaborating with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA). The collaboration is actually right in the sweet spot of the current technology market. …
EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) has agreed to acquire Hughes Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH) for about $2 billion, including debt, in a deal that would give EchoStar, which makes set-top boxes and satellites for Dish…
The annual budget sent from the White House to Congress is supposed to be the start of a negotiation. It is always rancorous, but will be more than usual this year. That is for…
Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE: UA) is not seeing a Halo-effect from its latest athlete endorsement. CNBC has reported that Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton of Auburn has signed an endorsement pact with the sporting…
Jon OggThe ongoing fight for how to run The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) is heating up and taking a strange turn. Bruce Berkowitz, whose Fairholme Capital is a near-30% owner of St. Joe,…
In remarks to a meeting of airlines executives, International Air Transport Association head Giovanni Bisagnani said that air passenger traffic would grow by a third by 2014 and that cargo traffic would grow by…
ThinkstockIt is no secret that the end of the relationship between Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) and Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) has been without much love. In fact, Starbucks wanted out early and the…
Americans love to “charge it”. This is why the darlings of plastic American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) have made solid investments in the past. In the U.S. credit card debt…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for February 14, 2011.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Seahawk Drilling, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAWK), Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ: HERO), Openwave Systems Inc.…