Kraft (NYSE:KFT)’ s hostile bid for Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) carries a value of $16.3 billion. Cadbury shares have recently traded above the level of the Kraft bid and the US company lost its chance to buy…
Abu Dhabi did the unexpected. It provided fellow member of the United Arab Emirates Dubai $10 billion in funds. Four billion dollars of that will go to give support for Dubai’s real estate fund Nakheel. The balance…
Reuters: Abu Dhabi supplied Dubai with $10 billion in bail out funds. Reuters: Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) is optimistic about its fight against Kraft (NYSE:KFT). Reuters: Arcelor Mittal could cut 10,000 jobs. Reuters: “Naked access” is now…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell a fraction to 10,106. Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Mitisubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) fell The Hang Seng rose .8% to 22,078. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.7% to 3,303.…
The second half of December is supposed to be when trading volume starts slowing down. That does not look to be the case for this coming week, and this list of the unusual suspects is packed with many…
After a year of false starts in which Chinese car and manufacturing interests have tried to buy Hummer and have kicked the tires at Volvo. a mainland firm, Beijing Automotive, will buy most of…
Standard & Poor’s often makes S&P index changes for the S&P 500, the S&P Mid-Cap 400 and the S&P Small Cap 600 at the end of the year. This probably is not going to…
How can economists get a handle on holiday retail sales trends? Watch Christmas tree sales. The theory seems plausible. People who can afford to pay $20, $40, or $100 for a tree also probably are…
Tiger Wood said he would take an “indefinite” leave from golf, putting his endorsements, the income of the PGA Tour, and PGA charities all at risk. As we expected, the Tiger Woods scandal has…
The House of Representatives passed HR 4173, known as The Wall Street Reform And Consumer Protection Act off 2009. The vote was a close 223 to 202. The bill now goes to the Senate were…
The weekly rig count data from Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) is out, and it seems that the corrective phase in the price of oil is starting to create mixed data in the rig…
As we saw yesterday, short sellers have increased their bets against several companies that we find interesting and may be acted on. Short sellers had covered their positions in Palm Inc (NASDAQ: PALM) but…
Patent lawsuits are nothing new in the world of technology. And the patent suit from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have just taken a turn. Apple announced this morning…
Updated throughout the day. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will buy Opalis Software (Barron’s) Updated 9.47 AM EST The CEO of Bank of New York (NYSE:BK) is once again a candidate for the top jobs at Bank…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. There is much more detailed analysis and data on each stock story via a link to VSInvestor.com: Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is…
These are the ten top analyst calls in upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Friday from Wall Street research calls: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Outperform at Bernstein. Burlington Northern…
The McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) Dollar Meal has found a new home in the morning. A number of press reports quote the fast food chain management as saying that it will offer $1 breakfast meals beginning…
The IMF has grown tired of increasing government spending in Ukraine. The agency had agreed to loan the nation $16.8 billion to offset its large national deficits. It is now withholding the latest $3.5…
Politicians and economists are forever coming up with new ideas to lower the national debt which is now more than $12 trillion and growing rapidly. The New York Times reports that the idea of a national…
Moody’s (NYSE:MCO) made comments about its ratings on US and UK sovereign debt that were meant to calm the markets. Early in the week the credit agency said that one or both countries could…