Federal District Judge Jed S. Rakoff was supposed to a approve a $33 million settlement between the SEC and Bank of America over the issue of the financial firm making inaccurate statements regarding Merrill…
United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG) has been accused of, and still appears to be, the tail that wags the dog in the world of speculative instruments and a single commodity market. It is…
The rate at which unemployment is growing has slowed recently and is no longer running more than 700,000 jobs lost a month. But, the firings are continuing, even at America’s largest companies, a sign that…
It used to be that Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) was a company whose life revolved around tax season as Joe Public went to buy new versions of TurboTax® software, and the offset to the…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is already a large wind power and alternative energy player. The company’s GE Wind site notes that it already has more than 10,000 worldwide wind turbine installations comprising more…
The analyst who upgraded E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) at Citigroup is probably not feeling as confident as compared to about an hour ago. Citi raised its rating to BUY from Hold and raised its…
These are this Monday’s top day trader alert and active trader alert stocks. We have more color and more detail on price and volume analysis linked through to each at VSInvestor.com: Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.…
These are the top 10 analyst calls for upgrades and downgrades seen early this Monday morning from Wall Street research firms: Boston Scientific (BSX) Cut to Neutral at UBS. DreamWorks Animation (DWA) Raised to…
John Tamny of RealClearMarkets President Nixon’s Treasury Secretary John Connally once famously quipped to a gathering of European central bankers that “the dollar may be our currency, but it’s your problem.” Connally got it…
The media industry is being shaken to it foundations by the recession and the movement of advertising dollars from old media to the internet. The public’s trust of the media is dropping rapidly, which…
China voiced unusually strong objections to tariffs put on its tire exports to the US. The American government believes that the Chinese are targeting the industry which is costing US jobs. Labor unions will…
BusinessWeek is losing money, over $40 million last year by some accounts, and more if the publication’s corporate overhead is included. There have been questions about whether BusinessWeek is financially viable for some time.…
Reuters: Obama is trying to push Wall St. reform. Reuters: German aid for Opel will go in part to Russia for operations there. Reuters: A global poll shows support for stimulus packages. Reuters: J&J…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 2.3% to 10,202. Toyota (TM) fell. The Hang send dropped. 1.1% to 20,929. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.2% to 3,027. At the open in Europe, the…
Several consulting firms post annual figures for the world’s most valuable brands. The two best known are probably the Interbrand and BrandZ surveys. They are notably different, up until now at least. BrandZ includes…
We have a whole host of stocks and sectors to watch throughout this coming week. We have Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: GT) and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: CTB) to watch…
Deutsche Telekom’s US cellular carrier T-Mobile only has 33 million subscribers. That puts its a distant fourth in the market behind Sprint (S) Verizon Wireless (VOD)(VZ) and AT&T (T). It means that T-Mobile has only…
We have a little flurry of key earnings coming this week. We have provided detailed earnings estimates with Thomson Reuters consensus figures, with our own color for the recent performance, the charts, options, and…
GM will restore the full salaries of management workers who were forced to take pay cuts last spring. Of course, because GM losses money and is relying on $50 billion in US loans to…
A good old-fashioned trade war may be heating up between the US and China with the Administration firing the first shot. A number of global think tanks have worried that the recession could cause…