Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has started to meet with its largest shareholders to defend the millions, and in some cases tens of millions, that it pays its management and star bankers. The Wall Street Journal…
GE (NYSE:GE) will pick up close to $8 billion in net cash as part of its deal to pass a majority interest in its NBCU unit to Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA)leaving the conglomerate with 49%. GE has not done much…
The ADP private sector jobs report says that 169,000 people became unemployed in November. This means that the government figures on unemployment for last month will likely indicate that the jobless population went up…
Reuters: Affluent borrowers are being made credit card offers. Most other people are rarely solicited. Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will repay $45 billion in TARP funds. Reuters: AMR (NYSE:AMR) and TPG have offered JAL $1.1…
Market in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 3.8% to 9,978. The Hang Seng rose .13% to 22,554. The Shanghai Composite fell .2% to 3,265. At the open in Europe, teh FTSE rose .6%…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) will soon be out of the TARP. The report was first out by CNBC’s Charlie Gasparino right after 5 PM that Bank of America is about to do…
GM Chairman and interim CEO Ed Whitacre said he has no idea how long it will take to find a permanent chief. He told GM employees it could take a year. He is not…
Tickerspy’s Stem Cell Stock Index (*RSXTM) took off today, rising nearly 13%. The movement followed a release from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcing that 13 embryonic stem cell lines were approved for…
The Federal Reserve Board’s Beige Book has offered a dismal report and dismal outlook for what is roughly two years now. That can’t be a shock considering how crummy the economy and job prospects…
Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) has an interesting approach in M&A today. The deal is a tiny merger valued at $44 million when you consider that Reynolds has almost a $15 billion market cap,…
24/7 Wall St. has prepared its list of the ten brands that will disappear in 2010. This list is based on a review of each firm’s financial situation and other operating data, the current…
Standard & Poor’s is making several index changes in the coming trading days. While Regal Beloit Corp. (NYSE: RBC) and Allegiant Travel Co. (NASDAQ: ALGT) are moving up in the S&P Indexes, the big…
The Department of Energy has just released its new weekly data on oil inventories. The headline data looks good for those wanting lower oil prices, but there is actually some very mixed data in…
CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) has been under pressure for increasing its bid for the Nortel optical networking unit in the Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) bankruptcy. But now there is a stalking horse potentially via…
This morning we have another flurry of secondary offerings that are hitting the market. Today’s tally comes to what looks like more than $500 million being absorbed by the public equity markets. These offerings…
Updated throughout the day. Vivendi will get no upfront cash from GE (NYSE:GE) for the sale of its stake in NBCU (Reuters) More that one of the candidates for the Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)…
These are this Wednesday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks with links to VSInvestor.com for more detailed data and analysis: Diedrich Coffee Inc. (NASDAQ: DDRX) is up again as the buyout wars…
These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning: American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank. Arris Group…
It does not say much for the future of plans to rebuild Bank of America NYSE:(BAC) that major candidates for the CEO position question the board’s strategy for running the firm. Many of the…
It would have been preposterous to say the DJIA could close the year at 12,000 back in March when it dropped below 6,600. The market is up 60% since then and trades at nearly…