Updated throughout the day. Updated 4.06 PM EST: “U.S. chocolate giant Hershey Co. has been in high-level talks with Italian chocolate maker Ferrero Spa to possibly craft a rival joint bid to Kraft Foods…
These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active trader alerts with more details and analysis linked through to each stock over at VSInvestor.com: Netlist Inc. (NLST) is seeing small profit taking after a…
By John Tamny of Forbes “Money is nothing but a medium of exchange…” – Ludwig Von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 31 By John Tamny President Obama’s arrival in…
Semitool, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMTL) has become the perfect fit for Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT). Applied has decided to acquire the maker of multi-chamber single-wafer and batch wet chemical processing equipment used in the…
These are this morning’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo. Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) Raised to…
Mortgage loan delinquency (the ratio of borrowers 60 or more days past due) increased for the 11th straight quarter, hitting an all-time national average high of 6.25 percent for the third quarter of 2009,…
New research indicates that transportation companies will benefit the most from the government’s huge stimulus investment in infrastructure. According to a new ChangeWave survey of 313 people who work for companies involved with infrastructure projects…
There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four or five. An audit by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program claims that the Federal Reserve Bank of New…
The pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, is tough man. He has forced firms that have taken TARP money to sharply drop the base salaries of their senior managers. Executives will have to take more of…
It could be the economy or the fact that spending time in McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), Target (NYSE:TGT), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is more pleasant than it used to be. All of these retailers certainly…
There were two speeches by senior members of the US government about unemployment yesterday. The one that received the most attention was Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke’s talk at the Economic Club of New…
Reuters: The head of GMAC quit. Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen has cancer. Reuters: The Fed will keep rates low. Reuters: Lehman sued Barclays (NYSE:BCS) over a “wind fall” profit on assets.
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .6% to 9,730. Sony (NYSE:SNE) dropped. The Hang Seng was down .1% to 22,914. The Shanghai Composite rose .2% to 3,283. At the open in Europe,…
This is the list of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) public US equity holdings as of September 30, 2009. As noted in the “A to F” and “G to O” lists, there have been…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has its Q3-2009 public equity holdings as of September 30, 2009. In our group “A to F” we noted some interim changes in the lot. Here are Warren Buffett’s…
Tickerspy’s Dry Bulk Shipping Stock Index (*DBULK) rose 5.1% today, beating the S&P 500 by 1.3.%. Dry shipping stocks were given a boost by upgrades today. Deutsche Bank upgraded Genco (NYSE: GNK), Euroseas Ltd…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has shown its Q3-2009 holdings as of September 30, 2009. We had already seen how his securities holdings were up on the books in the holdings with earnings. There…
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) over 3% to a yearly high of $84.92. Barron’s reported that the package delivery company may rise as high as $100 dollars according to a survey of investors and analysts.…
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke commented today that he was concerned that the recovery will not be strong enough to support job growth next year. While the current recession in the United States has yet to be declared…
Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSK) is seeing some very cautious or at least unexciting analyst initiations now that its quiet period has ended. This post-IPO has at least held its value, which is more…