Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is still well under 100 hours of announcing that Brian Moynihan would replace Ken Lewis as CEO of the largest US bank by domestic deposits. CNBC’s Maria Bartoromo…
General Motors can’t get brand exit strategies right regardless of who is running the show there. Government Motors held a press conference today to discuss the death of the Saab Automobile brand.
Meredith Whitney must be staggering her bank coverage news out to get more exposure, or at least that is a cynical take on the matter. Yesterday, she hit Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS)…
AT&T (NASDAQ:T) has had trouble with its network, reported due to the huge amount of activity by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone customers. Today, the phone company’s PR firm, Fleishman-Hillard, put out a release saying that…
These are this Friday’s top day trader alerts in the pre-market trading. We have more details on the news but more importantly for the traders on the data and analysis from trading ranges and…
Updated throughout the day. The auto task force says GM and Chrysler are recovering ahead of schedule (Reuters) Carl Icahn may force a sale of Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) after buying 11% of the company …
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs. BP plc (NYSE: BP) Raised to Buy at…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) has been a real pest in the world of analyzing options trading activity. There has been a perpetual open interest alert with a monster contract volume in the DEC-2009…
Boeing (NYSE:BA) has had more than its share of troubles over the last two years with delays in the launch of its Dreamliner, labor problems, and disappointing earnings. The clouds around the aircraft manufacturer…
BATS Exchange has been an almost stealth success in the world of trading stocks. In about four years it now claims to have about 10% of the US equity trading market share and about…
Twitter is the third largest social network by most measures behind Facebook and MySpace. Most internet measurement services say that Twitter is the fastest-growing of the three with its pool of users still doubling…
There are 1.7 million homes on the market which have gone through the foreclosure process. The number is at the highest level in history. The number, up from 1.1 million a year earlier, is…
Brand measurement is a popular exercise. Several major business magazines run brand value lists. The annual Brand Z and Interbrand lists always get heavy press coverage. Companies are concerned about their rankings and what…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has made impressive strides into the smartphone market since launching the iPhone. There has been plenty of evidence since then that it is taking a part of BlackBerry’s market. But, there was…
Reuters: Merger activity will grow slowly in 2010. Reuters: Bank of America’s new CEO said he would focus on execution. Reuters: Profits at RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) topped forecasts. Reuters: Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) posed a surprise rise in…
Markets in Asia were lower. The Nikkei dropped .3% to 10,142. The Hang Seng fell .7% to 21,193. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was off sharply. The Shanghai Composite was down 2.1% to 3,113. At the open…
Most people in America now are probably not as interested in what Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) did for earnings after the closing bell today, but the Tiger Woods story is still big news. Our…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have found a new friend. Standard & Poor’s has come out late in the day with a research note with “positive” credit implications for Jeff Bezos and friends. S&P…
It seems that Uncle Sam does not want to be the Grinch this Christmas and is giving a gift of no foreclosures during the holidays. At least its GSE mortgage lenders in government conservatorship,…
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) is one of the companies many investors have felt is an at-risk entity. Yet its reaction after the earnings call today is not signaling that. The company posted a loss…