Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) margins rushed past expectations and shares moved higher (Reuters) Bernanke said a strong US recovery is essential to global economic health (Reuters) Lawmakers attacked regulators and banks on the foreclosure debacle…
Next year will not be much of an improvement over this one if a large group of prominent economists is to be trusted. The Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan poll…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a rising star in the Republican party, recently stunned the media by expressing doubts about global warming. Four scientists from universities in the state even invited him to a…
Swiss-based Glencore International AG is the world’s largest commodity trader posted earnings of $979 million for the third quarter, up from $677 million in the second quarter. For the first nine months of 2010,…
Two million people are scheduled to lose their long-term unemployment benefits between now and year’s end. Unless friends or relatives elect to be generous, this would essentially make them indigent and likely without shelter.…
The economy has begun to show signs of life, at least in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve said: “Results from the Business Outlook Survey suggest that regional manufacturing activity showed improvement in November. All…
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 Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Dry Ships, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS), Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXEL), Humana, Inc. (NYSE: HUM),…
The Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development (OECD) says the world’s GDP is not growing at the rate it expected just months ago, and that the problem will persist. The solution to the trouble is not hard to…
CIA World FactbookLend tens of thousands of poor people who do not have normal access to modest sums of money, and do it during a recession, then hope to get the money back. It…
The deficit may be one of the most important issues which faces Americans today and that may continue for several years. A new poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News shows that many US…
Possibly the most critical debate at the moment in the global economy is whether central banks should fight inflation or deflation. On its face, inflation appears to be the lesser of two evils. High…
The GM IPO will be the largest eve.r (Reuters) Regulators indicated banks may face large write-offs on mortgages. (Reuters) Demand for the Chevy Volt has risen quickly. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) expected higher US…
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?