The federal government is highly active in getting banks to reset loans for people who want to stay in their homes by improving the terms of their monthly payments. The Homeowner Affordability and Stability…
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) did something today that is almost never seen in the corporate world. It made a big acquisition and fired 1,500 of its workers, 17% of the total staff, on the same…
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NYSE:NWS), has made it clear that he is done with the BBC and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) stealing his content and using it to make money. He may sue both…
Reuters: Markets hit their 2009 highs. Reuters: Dodd is set to unveil his financial reform bill which calls for merging many bank regulators. Reuters: Kraft’s (NYSE:KFT) bid for Cadbury turned hostile. Reuters: A survey…
Markets in Asia were slightly higher The Nikkei rose .6% to 9,871. Mitsubishi UFJ NYSE:MTU) rose. The Hang Seng was up .3% to 22,269. The Shanghai Composite rose .1% to 3,178. At the open…
It has been nearly a year since 24/7 Wall St. did its latest edition of the Twenty Five Most Valuable Blogs. Valuations have moved up significantly since then. Advertising CPMs have improved markedly since the beginning…
Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is going to have to make some more threats if he wants the EU to approve his company’s deal to buy Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) for $9.50 a share.…
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) surged over 7% to a yearly high of $37.80 after the company was upgraded from “neutral” to “buy” by anlysts at Goldman Sachs. DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ:…
Tickerspy’s Russian Stock and ADR Index is up close to 5% as the market goes into its close. Among the biggest movers was LUKOIL (OTC: LUKOY), an oil and gas company that was up…
JDS Uniphase Corp. (NASDAQ: JDSU) is seeing a run in the stock and in the options trading today. The company announced this morning that had “licensed patent rights for fundamental picosecond laser technology to…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is up with the broad market today by almost 2%, and shares are completely unphased at all on news that the company is spending $750 million in shares to acquire…
Oil and gas companies have closed or winding down many US Gulf operations ahead of a very late in the year Hurricane Ida. The weekend reports had this one dissipating then the reports early…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has filed a preliminary prospectus supplement under an existing shelf registration with the SEC this morning for a three-part debt offering. While no final amount was stated, and no…
GM sold 166,911 cars and light trucks in China last month. The No.1 US auto company sold 177,603 vehicles in its domestic market in the same period. The FT reports that “A total of…
Updated throughout the day. Updated at 11.49 AM EST: Reynolds Americam (NYSE:RAI) may buy Niconovum, a Swedish maker of nicotine gum and mouth sprays (Boomberg) Updated at 10.12 AM EST: Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) may…
These are this Monday’s top day trader and active traders stock alerts. We have a link for more detailed analysis and price/volume data at VSInvestor.com: Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA) is up 10% as traders…
John Tamny , Forbes Recently the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed the psychologically significant 10,000 mark. This is an impressive feat for an index that was trading in the 6,000 range less than nine…
These are this Monday’s top ten analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations in Wall Street research calls: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA) Raised to…
Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) is about to release its “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II: video game. Sales are expected to be half a billion dollars in the first week. That would make it the biggest entertainment…
By Douglas A. McIntyre It has been months since a hurricane posed a real threat to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, Hurricane Ida is entering the region from the west after…