The 2010 Super Bowl is expected to be a return of bold advertising. Whether you are a Colts or Saints fan or no fan at all, it seems that even the non-sports lovers enjoy the commercials…
The rise in the dollar and the most recent wave of added risks that are coming from Europe combined with the loan halts in China have brought havoc to the commodities markets. Oil has…
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) may have opened up a can of worms with its planned acquisition of Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG). For starters, Air Products has a market cap of $14.5 billion. Airgas has…
By Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire When President Obama traveled to China in November, currency policy was among the most-discussed issues. U.S. economists worried, and still do, that China devalues its currency, creating…
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) Cut to Equal…
Many have said that the math from the US Labor Department is fuzzy, and today will only show further conversations of that notion. Despite the negative recent news in weekly jobless claims, the unemployment…
Updated throughout the day. Toyota (TM) will recall the Prius in Japan (Reuters) JPMorgan (JPM) chief Jamie Dimon will be paid $15 million to $20 million in 2009 compensation (FT) Barclays (BCS) will bail AIG (AIG)…
President Obama will meet with China's "enemy of the state," the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet. The Chinese government already has protested the visit.
GE (GE) and Comcast (CMCSA) have struck a deal for the cable company to take a controlling share in GE’s entertainment unit–NBCU. Opponents of the transaction claim that it will be anticompetitive for the…
Ford (F) has offered customers who bought some 2010 Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids “a customer satisfaction program to update the software of the regenerative brake system.” Many media outlets are depicting this as a…
The housing market is already up against a number of barriers to recovery. High unemployment keeps millions of people out of the market for homes. Banks are wary to give mortgages to even the…
Reuters: The economy probably added 5,ooo jobs last month. Reuters: Kraft (KFT) gained control over 75% of Cadbury shares. Reuters: Toyota (TM) may recall the Prius. Reuters: Publishers and Amazon (AMZN) are still fighting…
Markets in Asia were sharply lower. The Nikkei fell 2.9% to 10,057. The Hang Seng fell 3.3% to 19,675. The Shanghai Composite fell 1.6% to 2,939. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was…
Toyota (TM) has recalled over seven million cars worldwide which includes eight of it most popular vehicles. The company is also faced with investigations about trouble with brakes on its 2010 Prius hybrid. French carmaker PSA Peugeot…
The big technical level in the S&P 500 Index was 1,085, but that feels like some time ago. There is no magic trick on a technical level of 10,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) NYSE: BRK-B) is in the process of selling $8 billion in notes today to help fund the acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (NYSE: BNI). And Standard & Poor’s…
It was only a matter of time before some bright Congressman decided that the UK decision to tax 2009 banker bonuses over $48,000 by 50% was a good way to raise money for the…
By Max Fisher, The Atlantic Wire President Obama raised eyebrows during the State of the Union address by vowing to double U.S. exports over the next five years. That’s a hefty promise–total U.S. exports…
Since its debut, Microsoft's Bing search engine has proven itself to be a credible threat to Google's dominance of the United States search market. Bing claimed 10.7% of the 14.7 billion searches conducted in…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) is about to price a very large debt offering. With as many European nations as we are seeing having debt downgrades or credit concerns on their sovereign…