A survey by CareerBuilder shows more firms plan to hire full-time people in 2011 compared to the two previous years (MarketWatch) The US may petition the WTO after China said it would cut rare…
Forecasters who believe that a 5% GDP improvement year was just around the corner in 2011 where disappointed by the new S&P/Case-Shiller data.” The Home Price Indices” showed a deceleration in the annual growth…
GM’s (NYSE: GM) stock rose 3% to $35.65 on positive comments about the car company from Barclays Capital and Credit Suisse. The optimistic outlook was premature. GM is expected to lose more market share…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for December 28, 2010.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 Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Logitech International SA (NASDAQ: LOGI), Mannkind Corporation (NASDAQ: MNKD), Santarus Inc. (NASDAQ: SNTS), and Sinovac…
The advertisement at several financial website reads “23-year-old college student John Bell isn’t like most of his classmates. In 2009 he turned a $10,000 student loan into $1,000,000 by betting on risky penny stocks.…
The third generation of Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle e-reader was the best selling product in the e-commerce firm’s history. The announcement was confused with a number of pieces of data which did not quite…
Short sellers elbowed their way into telecom stocks in the period that ended December 15. The move is probably due to several reasons. Landline subscriber counts continue to drop as more home telephone users…
Obama will delay the release of his new budget by a week (Reuters) US gas prices moved above $3, the highest since October 2008 (Reuters) Gold rose on Asia purchases (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
The population of the United States has increased steadily by roughly 2.5 million people every year since World War II. Throughout prosperity and hard times, Americans continue to have families. Many of the country’s…
We’ve often noted that energy efficiency is the low-hanging fruit of US efforts to reduce energy consumption, lower polluting emissions, and decrease US dependence on foreign sources of energy. One of the plums on…
Next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas could well see the beginning of the next round of technology development. Chip giants Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) are…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Alimera Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: ALIM), A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ: APWR), IncrediMail Ltd. (NASDAQ:…
Updated throughout the day. Sonic Solutions (NASAQ: SNIC) may find a buyer to top a bid by Rovi (NASDAQ: ROVI) Logitech will delay shipments of set-top boxes because of delays in the release of…
Americans do not merely love their favorite and most cherished brands, they love them. Consumers love Apple. They love the Mustang. They love Starbucks, and they once loved The Dallas Cowboys. Brand loyalty involves…
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition was the most widely downloaded software in 2010 according to CNET. It was downloaded over 83 million times at CNET.com last year. It is odd that free PC security software…
E-mail will be the target marketing tool of preference for companies that push their products and services online. Its growth in use will even surpass that of social media and search. E-marketer reports that…
China said it will try to keep prices down as inflation worsened (Reuters) Auto companies will lower the weight of light trucks to meet fuel standards (Reuters) Oil hits 26 month high as a…
Several OPEC ministers said they believe $100 a barrel oil prices would represent a proper balance between supply and demand. OPEC will do nothing to increase production before mid-year 2011, and it may not…
The Chinese economic machine has begun to sputter. An ongoing rapid improvement in its PMI, inflation at the wholesale level, and worker demands for higher pay have contributed to increased inflation. Add to those…