courtesy of NvidiaThe game console and portable device business just became more crowded. Chip company Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) will release its own game product, which has been given the code name of “Project…
courtesy of DisneyWalt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) may be considered by Wall St. to be among the best-run media giants in the world. That status will not protect some significant number of the company’s…
ThinkstockHostess Brands for Sale Hostess may be dead, but its popular brands are not. Several other food companies believe they can make money on the Hostess asset base, and the auction process to sell…
courtesy of SamsungTaiwan smartphone company HTC released its fourth-quarter earnings, which were awful. They show how rapidly the company is losing ground to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung. With each progressive quarter of poor results,…
courtesy of General MotorsIf car buyer brand performance is any measure of the success of a nameplate, Cadillac and Lincoln still have a long uphill battle against foreign competition. Brand weakness is yet another hurdle each has to…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Bank regulators loosen Basel accords to help increase bank lending. (Reuters) Research from the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) shows that the United States is a favored place…
Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseA softening of the liquidity rules set by the Basel III accord are based on revisions that probably will help profits at the world’s largest banks for now and may…
ThinkstockEach year, millions of trucks and trains transport $1 trillion in goods into and out of the U.S. through the largest ports of entry across the borders with Mexico and Canada. Of the $580 billion…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following the report that nonfarm payrolls had grown by 155,000, better than the expected growth of 150,000 (more coverage here). The December unemployment rate came in…
ThinkstockIn a speech today in Baltimore, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said that he agrees with the view of most economists that U.S. inflation will be “a little less than 2 percent” in 2013.…
ThinkstockEnvironmental advocacy groups expressing concern over frontier oil developments in the Alaskan arctic started the New Year on news that Shell’s (NYSE:RDS.A) problems in the region continue. This week’s grounding of the drill ship…
courtesy U.S. State DepartmentThe much-maligned Keystone XL pipeline project proposed by Transcanada Corp. (NYSE: TRP) today received a go-ahead from the state of Nebraska’s Department of Environmental Quality. The state’s governor, Republican Dave Heineman,…
Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Richmond Federal Reserve, is out with what are becoming more and more routine comments talking about dissension inside the Federal Reserve. Lacker is consistently the one voice against continued…
ThinkstockAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 315 million people living in the U.S. These folks own 425 million PCs, smartphones, video game consoles, tablets, HDTVs, disc players, and streaming media devices connected…
Being disappointed with work or being disappointed with corporate America is really not nothing new. The degree to how much certain members of the public will go to voice their opinion is sometimes funny and…