thinkstockIn an industry in which consolidation has gone on since the “Mad Men” age, a mammoth one has just taken place. Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) will combined, and according to most experts,…
Courtesy Volkswagen AGThroughout the recession and the Chapter 11 filings that nearly destroyed General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and Chrysler, the ad industry lost one of its most important categories. Even Ford Motor Co.…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsA billionaire should be able to take a few weeks off in the summer, particularly one who works as religiously as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer. His net worth…
courtesy of ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a company with a new CEO, but without a future. Everyone agrees with that, except Zynga. That leaves with game company’s board with the dilemma, which is, if…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.It is enough money to buy up most of the residential property on Museum Mile, a northern part of New York’s Fifth Avenue, or every Ford ever built? That won’t happen,…
If you want to know how Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and other social media services are changing or dominating the world, this image that is the cover of the August edition of Funny Times…
July 26, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on a day when the only U.S. economic data of note was the revised University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters consumer sentiment index, which came in…
To determine the worst states to be unemployed in, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed figures published by the Department of Labor’s Office of Unemployment Insurance and by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here are the…
ThinkstockTropical Storm Dorian formed way out in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, and so far its projected cone path from the National Hurricane Center has not really changed. The storm is still way out…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) has filed its automatic shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. What investors will wonder is whether this will be new debt or other sales,…
ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) did manage to surprise not just Wall Street and Main Street with its earnings report. It blew the numbers out of the water, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is even proving to…
To determine the best states to be unemployed in, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed figures published by the Department of Labor’s Office of Unemployment Insurance and by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here are the…
ThinkstockThe Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is an index that we maintain is not as accurate nor as fair as most economic reports. After all, it is sold as a subscription and it…
ThinkstockWith the stock market booming and the big cap technology stocks missing their second-quarter numbers, the tech analysts at Lazard Capital Markets are doing the deep-dive to find the names that can show significant…
ThinkstockWhen the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) launched their U.S Select REIT portfolio, the idea was to have a flexible portfolio that could be added to or deleted…