thinkstockItaly’s political problems may hurt the chances of the European Central Bank to battle the European Union’s financial problems. (Reuters) China’s PMI likely fell in February, a possible sign the world’s economy has slowed.…
24/7 Wall St. has covered the coming spending sequestration and many of the threats and warnings that have come with the day of reckoning now looming and seeming almost unavoidable. President Obama calls the…
thinkstockFirst Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) is out with its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012. The solar PV-panel maker said that its net sales hit a record $1.1 billion in the quarter,…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and wobbled around before heading upward for most of the day. Strong home prices and a surge in the consumer confidence index (more coverage here) gave the…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has long been criticized over its ridiculously high share price. With all of the pressure and media coverage that has been coming from activist investor activity, it should…
Last week’s release of the January FOMC meeting caused confusion due to so many Fed presidents and governors opining on how and when the FOMC might exit the quantitative easing of endless bond buying.…
ThinkstockApplied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) may be looking at a new chief financial officer, but one Wall St. bulge bracket firm has no concern here whatsoever. Applied’s shares have risen with the market today.…
ThinkstockFollowing today’s dismal report from Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL), the entire solar sector is experiencing a sell-off. The only question investors need to ask themselves is whether or not this turn of events…
ThinkstockThe recording industry has taken a beating for more than a decade as it struggled to come up with a way to maintain its substantial profits in the face of Internet sharing programs like…
ThinkstockA news announcement earlier this week has gone largely unnoticed, even though it might be a game-changer for Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) now that the computing world for processors is changing so much toward…
ThinkstockCrimson Wine Group Ltd. (OTC: CWGL) is the newest company to hit the markets around the trade of wine, beer and spirits. This is actually a spin-off that was just completed from Leucadia National…
ThinkstockWe have already covered the sea change that is washing over the mining industry. Where past practice has been to invest heavily in new assets with the strategy that growth was assured, massive mining…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau this morning released data on new single-family home sales for January. Sales rose 15.6% month-over-month, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 437,000, from a revised December sales figure of…
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveIt was just last week that we accused the Federal Reserve presidents and governors of wishing they could take back their wording and statements made in the January 20 to 30…
ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released its monthly report on consumer confidence for the month of February. This represents a major recovery to 69.6%. This is not only way above estimates, but it erases what…