Verdict: Good There is no turning back now. The Federal Reserve plans to implement QE2 like it already said it would do two weeks ago. But, Ben Bernanke has proven once again that he…
via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping to take the guesswork out of making hit movies. According to the Wall Street Journal, the world’s largest Internet retailer is setting up a business called…
The recorded music business has been getting beaten up for the last decade or so, starting with the original release of Napster in the late 1990s. Music industry executives decided that they’d rather fight…
The new performance scorecard from Truecar.com which it describes as how it “measures the overall performance of a brand or manufacturer based on pricing, sales, incentives, customer loyalty, market share, and inventory turn data.”…
“Privately-owned housing starts in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 519,000. This is 11.7% below the revised September estimate of 588,000 and is 1.9% below the October 2009 rate of 529,000,”…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Avanir Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AVNR), Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI), JA Solar Holdings, Co.,…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for November 17, 2010. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
Updated throughout the day. India and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are closer to settling their Blackberry communications dispute (Reuters) Wal-mart (NYSE: WMT) is closer to the purchase of Indonesia retailer Matahari. (Reuters) Sourcefire…
The new Microsoft (NASADQ: MSFT) Kinect, which has already sold 1 million units, and updated versions of products from Sony (NYSE: SNE), and Nintendo had all better sell well in November and December. Otherwise,…
The Bipartisan Policy Center set up by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell will offer a new plan to address the national deficit. It will be called “Restoring…
According to the The United States Trademark and Patent Office, a trademark is a brand name which includes any word, name, symbol, or device used, or intended to be used, in business to identify and…
The GM IPO may be the largest in US history (Reuters) Fed officials defended their plan to lower rates (Reuters) Bonds issues by Ireland may have great value in the case of a bailout…
GM has increased the price per share of its IPO from about $26 to nearly $33 and ratcheted up the number of shares it will offer by 30% to 478 million shares, all in…
Verdict: Irrelevant The CEO of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) told the Web 2.0 conference that his firm’s new tablet PC is “three to four times faster” than the iPad. Jim Balsillie said “Go to YouTube…
It’s probably too early to declare that there’s a new sheriff in town, but it’s not too early to keep an eye on a new Chinese aircraft maker. Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China, known…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Ceres Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS), China Natural Gas (NASDAQ: CHNG), MELA Sciences (NASDAQ: MELA), Netlist, Inc.…
Updated throughout the day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will add the Beatles to its iTune store (WSJ) Major league soccer will launch more fantasy sports to support revenue (Reuters) Douglas A. McIntyre
S&P has issued a forecast which says home prices could drop another 10% through next year. The new research says that: “While U.S. home prices have stabilized considerably since the recession officially ended in…
The Congressional Oversight Panel reports that the effects of the current foreclosure documentation crisis may have been underestimated. In a new study entitled “Examining the Consequences of Mortgage Irregularities for Financial Stability and Foreclosure…