Vanguard has just launched seven new bond exchange traded funds today. We are seeing very thin trading volume, and that will be the single biggest benchmark used for whether or not these become a…
The November 2009 NABE Outlook, compiled by the National Association for Business Economics, has a new outlook for the rest of 2009 and 2010 based on data taken October 24 to November 5. The…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks seen. We have more detailed analysis and data on each stock story with links over to VSInvestor.com: Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED)…
Updated throughout the day. Hershey (NYSE:HSY) and Nestle may enter the bidding for Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) (various) Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may pay content companies to block their content from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) News and use Redmond as…
Many, or most, major banks do not have enough capital to comfortably maintain their current ratings. Standard & Poor’s has a report out saying that the banks are underfunded despite capital raised and despite…
By Douglas A. McIntyre A new 2010 Chrysler with $4,000 cash back? Large incentive programs for new cars are usually set up to help dealers dump inventory they cannot sell or clear lots of…
by John Tamny of Forbes Every period of so-called economic excess invariably ends with the media and politicians discrediting the symbols of the alleged greed that characterized the era. Michael Milken and other innovative…
These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Express (NYSE: AXP) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Capital One (NYSE: COF) Started as Equal Weight…
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will not wait until the day after Thanksgiving to begin its holiday sales. It wants to take whatever early shopping business it can get from Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), and Best Buy…
The speculation over the fate of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed chief Ben Bernanke has grown as Congress has become more troubled by rising federal deficits and unemployment. The $787 billion stimulus package has…
The federal budget calls for the United States to make $700 billion in interest payments on the national debt in 2019, about $500 billion more that the government will make this year. The New…
News Corp (NYSE:NWS) has made a great deal of the fact that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) News gets a major benefit by running headlines from News Corp properties including The Wall Street Journal and Fox. Google…
M&A transactions with several bidders chasing one company often get so expensive that the winner in the auction become the later loser financially. Kraft (NYSE:KFT) has offered $16.5 billion for Cadbury. Cadbury trades at nearly…
Reuters: The dollar may keep rising as investors close out bets on oil and the currency. Reuters: Black Friday deals may not signal a retail comeback. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is weighing a higher Cadbury…
Market in Asia were up with Japan closed for a holiday The Hang Seng rose 1.4% to 22,773. The Shanghai Composite was up .9% to 3,339. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was…
24/7 Wall St. looked at a very large number of Nascar crashes to assess which were the most expensive. The crashes reviewed occurred between 2002 and the present. A Fox Sports analysis estimates that the…
24/7 Wall St. sat down with Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) to talk about the company’s current subscriber growth issues, the firm’s WiMax roll-out, and the future of broadband telecommunications. The interview:…
Colgate Palmolive (NYSE:CL) is the next likely consumer products company that will get a takeover offer. There have been rumors recently that Reckitt Benckiser, based in the UK, might be the acquirer, but the firm does not…
The Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) has had Cadbury as a corporate client for decades. The financial firm agreed to help fund Kraft’s (NYSE:KFT) potential buyout of Cadbury. RBS’s ownership is controlled by the UK…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is counting on its relationship with China Unicom (NASDAQ:CHU) to drive iPhone sales in a nation which already has over 500 million mobile subscribers. The head of Unicom said he expects the iPhone to take…