Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking movement in shares of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), Dynavox (NASDAQ: DVOX), ESCO Technologies (NYSE:…
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…
Updated throughout the day. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) may buy Indonesia retailer Matahari (Reuters) The Obama administration will create an online privacy czar (WSJ) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may cut its job force (WSJ) Douglas A.…
The Shanghai Composite lost 5.2% overnight, some say in reaction to a potential tightening of lending. Others say it a fear that there will be a sovereign debt crisis is Ireland which may cause…
There is a rumor that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will layoff 20% of its workforce or 20% of the workforce in one of its divisions. Neither may be true. Yahoo! has become the target of…
nationsonline.orgIreland is in deeper financial trouble than it might imagine. A recent Bloomberg poll of global capital markets investors showed that 51% believe Ireland is likely to default on its sovereign debt obligations. Ireland…
EU officials tried to reassure capital markets about Ireland’s viability. (Reuters) Yahoo ! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said a report it would lay of 20% of staff was “misleading.” (Reuters) Newsweek and The Daily Beast will…
The price of a barrel of WTI crude oil reached $88.63 early today, a level it has not reached in more than two years. The price has dropped a bit since then, trading right…
BAD The more data that becomes available on the holiday retail season, the worse it looks. New Gallup data shows that “Consumers’ self-reported daily spending in stores, restaurants, gas stations, and online averaged $63…
Good For the first time in a wretch history of poor management, Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) finally got something right. The company has 67,000 miles of broadband backbone used to for VoIP, data, and video…
Not more than two or three years ago, energy companies believed that the US would begin importing large quantities of liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Re-gasification plants were either expanded or built to accommodate…
BAD Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) posted a reasonable improvement in earnings for its most recently reported quarter–fiscal first year profit was $1.93 billion compared to $1.79 billion in the same period a year ago. But,…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Ascent Solar Technologies, inc. (ASTI), Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), China Grentech Corporation Limited…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for November 11, 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. Chinese car firm SAIC is close to buying a position in the GM IPO (Reuters) Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) pulled money out of the Harbinger Capital Partners (Bloomberg) Douglas…
Two days ago, a major Chinese credit rating agency downgraded US sovereign debt. The reasons were that deficits and the national debt were too high, and growth was too slow. Today, Moody’s a US-based…
Global smartphone sales rose by nearly 100% in the third quarter of 2010 compared with the same period last year. That allowed Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) to pick up market share while…
Cisco reported a fiscal first-quarter profit of $1.93 billion, or 34 cents a share, compared with a profit of $1.79 billion, or 30 cents a share, for the year-earlier period. Revenue was $10.75 billion,…
Walmart.com (NYSE:WMT) began to offer free shipping today on many items such as electronics, toys and jewelry. Most of the products in the program are not available in stores. The gambit is clearly meant…
No one should be shocked that inflation has returned in force to China. It has stimulated its economy enough to create consumer demand for goods and services, increased factory activity, and demand for imported…