Day: <span>August 1, 2011</span>

Updated throughout the day.Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Foxconn will use up to one million robots for manufacturing by 2013 (Reuters)Lansdowne Partners sold an $850 million stake in Goldman Sachs...
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) is announcing the changing of the guard at its Chairman position.  Independent board member Steve Bennett will be elected to succeed former CEO John W. Thompson as...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning.AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC) Cut to Hold at Citigroup....
The recession is supposed to be over, or at least the part during which joblessness grew. HSBC (NYSE: HBC) offered another example that is not the case. It will cut 30,000 people over the next three...
“Read my lips: no new taxes”–George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National ConventionThe final budget bill crafted to allow an increase in the debt cap will be shy one thing: There will be...
GM (NYSE: GM) was supposed to be one of the largest beneficiaries of the recovery of the US car market. It had been through a bankruptcy with federal government aid which helped it substantially...
The world’s population is likely to reach 10.1 billion people by the end of the century up from 7 billion this year. It will reach 9.3 billion along the way–probably in 2050.There is nothing...
A debt deal agreed to by both parties will be voted on today (Reuters)The debt deal is likely to cause a sharp improvement in stock prices (Reuters)Hackers said they hit a cyber supplier to the US...