Reuters: There do not appear to be any bids to rival BHP Billiton’s (NYSE: BHP) for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: A US government agency is considering more self-regulation for oil Reuters: GM filed for…
Updated throughout the day. Jodie Fisher may have lost consulting revenue because she did not sleep with Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) (various) GM may sell preferred shares as part of its IPO…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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…
Usually sexual harassment settlements come with a confidentiality clause. That must not be the case with Jodie Fisher who had an undisclosed relationship with former Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd. The relationship and…
Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner says that the the US must keep a role in the housing market recovery as it there is one. He claims that the federal government must be careful…
Several retail analysts pointed out that Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) earnings and those of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) were helped by rigid cost controls. This is not the first time during the earnings season, which…
There are rumors that GM will delay its IPO and others that it will sell preferred stock along with common. The need to sell preferred is a sign that GM believes some investors want…
The Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) board of directors must have adopted the philosophy that firing Michael Dell will not bring back the tens of billions of dollars that the company’s market cap has come down…
Reuters: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has begun an attempt at a hostile deal for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: A female contractor of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) said she lost work because she would not have…
The heads of the regional Federal Reserve banks are thinkers, but they may not be doers. Narayana Kocherlakota, the President Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said today that “unemployment will remain above 8 percent…
Updated throughout the day. GIC Real Estate, the real-estate arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp plans an IPO (NYT) Spain’s Santander has renewed talks to merge its U.S. operations with New York…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) posted pathetic US numbers, but was saved by its international group as it posted good earnings and revised its forecast for the year upward. Walmart reports second quarter diluted earnings per…
The US, unlike other nations, at least asks its lending institutions to abuse their customers as little as possible The Fed’s latest directive is that banks should not let mortgage originators get better fees…
Two studies–one by Deutsche Bank and the other by TransUnion-show that mortgages with payments that are past due for 60 and 90 days have risen sharply. The Deutsche Bank data shows that in some…
For those who believe that China will eventually use its holdings in long-term US debt to pressure America to keep open trade and not press too much on the value of the yuan, there…
Harvard ranked first among American universities in the US News poll of national universities. And, well it should. The college has produced eight US presidents, and a number, including Obama and the second Bush,…
Reuters: The GM IPO is about to be filed. Reuters: Several members of the Senate want the FCC to push ahead with its own internet rules and not rely on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Reuters: …
Home builder confidence was crushed this month and cam in well below analyst estimates. The numbers from the National Association of Home Builders reported that the Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index declined one…
Updated throughout the day. The board of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) was angered when Mark Hurd made a private deal to settle sexual harassment charges made by a consultant (WSJ) Many Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) partners…