Reuters: The Ohio Attorney General is suing a number of Wall St. firms. Reuters: GM will start to repay part of its debt to the US. Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) will sell Bellsystem to Bain.…
Most markets in Asia rose sharply. The Nikkei was up .2% to 9,791. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) fell. The Hang Seng rose 1.7% to 22,944. The Shanghai Composite was up 2.7% to 3,275. At the…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), book authors and publishers had until midnight to provide a federal court with a plan to settle their differences on how the search engine digitizes and charges for books. The group waited…
In a court case that began last year, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) charged the young upstart Psystar, which makes Mac knock-offs, with a host of copyright and trademark violations. The venerable computer and consumer electronics company…
This week’s earnings calendar is going to be dominated by retail earnings. Early in the week you have the home improvement and building material wars with earnings first out of Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW)…
The Federal Reserve and most economists believe that keeping US interest rates at near zero has been critical to the recovery of the American economy. Even with rates at historically low levels, banks and…
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is s fine place for the homeless and deranged to spend their time. The purchase of one cup of coffee gives them access to comfortable chairs, bathrooms, and music for hours the…
John Paulson is rather notorious, and wealthy, for how much he picked up by shorting financial stocks on the way down. But the financial world found out in August that Paulson & Co. had…
Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) has just filed a mixed securities shelf registration that will allow it to sell securities in the amount of up to $750 million. This will allow Beazer and…
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSTI) is trading up on a private equity and management-led buyout. SST is flash memory maker based in Sunnyvale, California. While the company has entered into a definitive merger…
It seems that earnings season is winding down, but next week we have many of the key retail and apparel players reporting earnings. Saks Incorporated (NASDAQ: SKS), BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. (NYSE: BJ), Gymboree…
As another sign of the truth that most of the world’s rich people have moved to China or were born there, sales of the $150,000 Mercedes S class are now higher in the People’s Republic than…
We have been given some exclusive data from SPACupdate.com on the progress of many blank check and special purpose acquisition companies which their targets and relevant trading data. Prospect Acquisition Co. (AMEX: PAX), Hicks…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.30 AM EST: PALM (NASDAQ:PALM) shares are up on speculation that Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) or Nokia (NYSE:NOK) will buy the faltering handset firm (VSInvestor) Former Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) CEO and…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. More detailed analysis and data has been offered via a link to each story at VSInvestor.com: Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF)…
These are this Friday’s top early analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research calls which may be moving shares of the underlying stocks: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Started as Buy at UBS.…
The weak dollar has definitely been a contributor to the rise in the price of gold. And it is also partly responsible for some of the oil gains that took prices back over $80…
September sales for video game consoles were relatively good given the economy. Price cuts on the Nintendo Wii, Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox stimulated activity. It appears that the initial surge in sales…
DVDs and e-books that sell for under $10 is one thing. Appliances that sell for $3 is another. Target (NYSE:TGT) is offering toasters, coffee makers, and slow roasters at $3 each, according to data…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will have too many retail stores at some point. It will face the “Starbucks problem” of over-building. Starbucks once boasted that it would eventually have 40,000 coffee shops worldwide. It will be…