The Treasury wants to make banks, particularly large ones, increase their capital bases and improve their liquidity. In a statement, the department said, “Capital requirements for all banking firms should be increased, and capital…
Reuters: China is making it difficult for foreigners to trade in its commodidites markets. Reuters: Toshiba will pay $5 billion for a unit of Areva. Reuters: The SEC and CFTC will align efforts to…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .3% to 10,187. The Hang Seng rose .8% to 19,901. The Shanghai Composite rose .9% to 2,861. At the open in Europe, the FTSE rose .7%…
Senator Charles Schumer believes that the SEC is underfunded. Statistics tend to support his case. The SEC’s staff of approximately 3,650 oversees 35,000 entities. Securities trading volume has increased 261% between 2003 and 2008,…
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) did not immediately rise despite the announcement from the company that it was raising its quarterly dividend. Most dividend hikes do not raise the price of stocks immediately, but…
Case No. OIG-509 from the SEC Office of the Inspector General, also known as “Investigation of Failure of the SEC To Uncover Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme”, is good reading. The public may think the…
MSBNC, operated by the NBCU division of GE (GE) and CBS (CBS) made the mistake of throwing Don Imus off the air in April 2007. He made intemperate and distasteful comments about black women…
The e-reader market which has been the subject of so much media attention may be going through a growth spurt now, but that is not likely to last. Sony (SNE) and Amazon (AMZN) may…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is making a significant management change, right at the top of the company. Mike Ahearn is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by Robert J. Gillette. This…
Warren Buffett is positioning Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) to profit when the housing and property market returns to more normal levels. Now, he is teaming up with what many investors consider a “Buffett…
The commodities call is back on. It isn’t $100 oil, but it is for $1,000.00 gold. We have two well respected market technicians calling for higher gold prices. At 10:12 AM EST, Spot Gold…
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is going to have a very active day ahead of it. The troubled banking giant has just announced that its common stockholders approved the three resolutions submitted in its Common…
These are this Thursday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have links through to each with more detailed price/volume analysis over at VSinvestor.com: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:…
Weekly Jobless Claims were just released by the US Labor Department and the numbers came in at 570,000 again on the preliminary claims figure. Last week was originally reported as 570,000, and that figure…
These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades and positive research calls seen from Wall Street analysts early this Thursday morning: Accenture (ACN) Started as Outperform at Baird. Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to Outperform at…
These are this Thursday’s top analyst downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning: Deere & Co. (DE) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. eHealth (EHTH) Cut to Hold at Argus. Harmony Gold…
Oracle (ORCL) probably thought its deal to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) was a sure thing once US regulators had approved the deal. Now, the transaction is in real trouble and some experts believe it…
Most of the news yesterday was dominated by the news that Charles Gibson would leave as anchor of the ABC Evening News and be replaced by Diane Sawyer. Since almost no one under 60-years-old…
Google’s (GOOG) YouTube may finally come up with a way to raise revenue. It streamed nine billion videos last month, but, by some estimates loses $300 million a year. The quality of the video…
Case No. OIG-509 from the SEC Office of the Inspector General, also known as “Investigation of Failure of the SEC To Uncover Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme”, is good reading. The public may think the…