Reuters: The Treasury says the TARP loss will be $200 billion less than expected. Reuters: Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) will respond to the Kraft (NYSE:KFT) offer on the 14th of December. Reuters: Five AIG (NYSE:AIG) executives…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.5% to 10,168. JAL rose sharply on news of a government bailout. The Hang Seng fell .8% to 22,325. Geely Auto rose. The Shanghai Composite was…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has opened scores of retail stores and by almost any measure they have been a success. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is opening retail locations to sell its hardware and software. It is too early…
Pressure from the federal government and taxpayers did nothing to bend the will of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) It will pay out $19 billion in bonuses to its employments which means that executives and senior bankers…
This was a wild week, and perhaps a disappointment that the news did not propel stocks even higher. There were many key movers though, and we have a very active panel of very active…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) customers who want to buy and play music and video from the iTunes store have to download it to their iPods or iPhones. The huge consumer electronics company is buying Lala. The…
State Bank and Trust Company is taking over two failed and seized banks in Georgia, making this the #125 and #126 closed banks in America during the financial crisis. But this marks the 23rd…
It may be that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner needs to take a revisionist’s view of history to support his attacks on the large bonuses Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and other banks are about to pay their top executives.…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was all over the news for repaying the TARP and for its huge $15.00-equivalent stock offering of more than $19 billion. The S&P rebalance helped Bank of America…
Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) rose 7.9% to a yearly high of $25.66 after the software company was upgraded to “outperform” by Oppenheimer & Co. Flow International Corp. (NASDAQ: FLOW) rose over 33% to…
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate had dropped from 10.2% to 10% and that nonfarm payroll jobs declined by just 11,000. The market rallied in the early morning,…
We have had a hard time not noticing how many more emails Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has sent out on deals compared to last year. More importantly, we have noticed how consumer electronics and…
Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) has just released its weekly rig counts. It looks like we have another week of rig count growth on the three major counts, a positive development for those wanting…
If you have followed Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) since way back when Sprint was Sprint and Nextel was Nextel, you know how the Sprint story is riddled with lawsuits from affiliates and full of…
The video game sector is not improving with the economy. It seems to not even be getting ‘less-bad’ with the other sectors that are looking ‘less-bad’ compared to earlier months. Last night’s awful earnings…
The nation’s headline unemployment number declined in November, from 10.2% to 10%. Nonfarm payroll jobs declined by 11,000, with the average decline over the past three months being 135,000. Job loses were primarily in…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have more detailed volume data and analysis on each stock story via a link over to VSInvestor.com: Smith & Wesson Holding…
Updated throughout the day. Kraft (NYSE:KFT) will make its official offer to Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) shareholders (Reuters) The 300 richest people in Switzerland lost $10 billion this year. (Bilanz) Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) management may take some of…
The Labor Department is out with its November unemployment rate and the change in non-Farm payrolls. The official unemployment rate in November went down to 10.0% from 10.2% in October. That is of course…
These are this Friday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD) Started as Outperform at William Blair. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM)…