The author was a member of the board of directors of TheStreet.com from 2000 to 2005. One of the major concerns of the board was what would happen if Jim Cramer left the company…
Reuters: The healthcare plan is about to take a step forward in Congress. Reuters: The debt swap at CIT (NYSE:CIT) is in trouble and could cause bankruptcy. Reuters: Summers says Obama policies saved economy.
Most markets in Asia rose. The Nikkei was up .6% to 10,055. Honda (NYSE:HMC) gained. The Hang Seng was up 1.5% to 21,603. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was up. The Shanghai Composite was higher by 1.4%…
Here we are going into yet another earnings season. We saw Monday how the market has rallied significantly from the March lows and the major indexes are even up in positive territory for the…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) hit a yearly high of $126.67 after the company announced that it had renewed its marketing and services relationship with the National Football League. The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) surged over…
News out of Macau, China is crushing some of the gambling stocks that have direct operations in Macau. It looks like the Chinese are considering curbing the number of gambling tables, the minimum age…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is within sight of the psychological 10,000 mark. Again. This is a price-weighted index rather than a market cap-weighted index, which makes the index not as representative of the…
We have many key technology stocks reporting earnings this coming week. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) will start things off to give us a read on semiconductors and PCs. International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM). Google…
The board of director infighting may be heating up between Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). First it was Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt leaving, or being forced out, of the Apple…
The solar sector appears to be lightly benefiting from California legislation efforts that would secure above market rates as a feed-in tariff for small solar power generators. California already has mandates calling for larger…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active alert stocks moving on volume. We have provided links through to each stock with more detailed analysis and data at VSInvestor.com: Black & Decker (NYSE:…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.39 PM EST: Charles G. Ward, III, a senior executive at Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) will be named interim CEO at the company pending the recovery of Bruce Wasserstein. (various) Updated 12.32…
DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC. has set the terms for its IPO, which is a Re-IPO after going private back in 2003. The offering is expected to raise close to $575 million, up from $500…
John Tamny of Forbes For Americans who’ve been lucky enough to visit foreign soil this decade, the one unfortunate glitch involved learning just how little a dollar can buy overseas. With the dollar having…
These are the top early-bird analyst upgrades and positive research calls which we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at UBS. Amgen (NASDAQ:…
These are the early-bird analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street this Monday morning: Brocade Communications (BRCD) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. (DPS) Cut…
“Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that…
GE (NYSE:GE) investors are thrilled that the conglomerate may be able to rid itself of its underperforming media unit, NBC Universal. It appears that GE is close to a deal with cable giant Comcast…
Its fiscal year coming to an end, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is about to post record annual profits less than a year after the peak of the credit crisis. It is as if almost nothing…
The government is putting part of its $787 billion stimulus package into alternative energy and improving the infrastructure of the energy grid. Private foundations have started to put money into green energy initiatives in…