Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that 9 out of 10 bank holding companies that were required to raise additional capital to bolster their balance sheets have successfully done so. The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program…
Updated throughout the day. Update 2.52 PM EST: The antitrust disagreement between Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and AMD (NYSE:AMD) may be resolved by a private settlement (MarketWatch) Updated 12.23 PM EST: Motorola (NYSE:MOT) may have sold…
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is running this morning. The stock is trading higher this morning on a debt rating comment from last night. It turns out that Moody’s might have some relevance…
In the FED’s most recent bank survey they asked how the banks indented to deal with the Credit CARD Act of 2009. The Act meant to protect users from sudden interest rate spikes on…
These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Tuesday morning from Wall Street research calls: Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Buy at Janney Montgomery Scott. Central Euro…
The IAE is predicting that use of fossil fuels could cause a very sharp increase in the world’s temperature as the demand for energy rebounds from the recession. In its new World Energy Outlook, the…
Burglaries are falling sharply, very sharply since 1973. The number of victims per thousand households has dropped from just over 100 thirty-five years ago to under 40 last year, according to the Bureau of…
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…