Google’s (GOOG) Gmail system, which serves millions of customers around the world, shut down yesterday. The problem may hurt its efforts to market applications which include e-mail to businesses. Google prides itself on the reliability…
Reuters: Sales growth of Ford (F) and Hyundai topped other car companies. Reuters: The EU could slow a takeover of Sun (JAVA) by Oracle (ORCL). Reuters: Home sales and factory orders signaled an end…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 2.4% to 10,281. The Hang Seng was down 1.4% to 19,586. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.2% to 2,715. At the open in Europe, the FTSE…
It has been no secret that the CFTC is looking into many exchange traded notes and exchange traded funds that deal in the energy markets, along with other futures and other investment vehicles, to…
If you have ever relied on any outside service to host your email or if you have ever had your email even routed from an outside service, there is the occasional outage. It is…
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA? And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers. Maybe it is because we…
The launch of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has been delayed so often that it would be comical except that the aerospace firm’s shareholders and customers are not laughing. Boeing trades at $50, down from more…
It was just last week that the DJIA was on its eighth consecutive day of a rally and the junkiest of companies were running rampant. But as the economic numbers started to finally bring…
Bill Gross is co-CIO for arguably the most influential bond management firm in the U.S. PIMCO is the biggest ax in the bond market of the bond management firms, and Gross’ outlook for what…
The “cash for clunkers” data by car manufacturer and model type is incorrect. The Department of Transportation numbers reports cars by drive train and not by brand. Edmunds was able to see part of…
Beacon Power Corporation (NASDAQ: BCON) has just filed to raise up to $60 million in cash in a mixed securities shelf registration. The company’s shelf filing will allow it to sell any combination of…
The recent news about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) increasing third party item selling via the Walmart.com shopping portal is getting some increased traction…. But the question is really, “Should it?”… The real fear…
The August manufacturing data from the Institute for Supply Management is actually positive and above that 50.0 threshold for growth versus contraction. It is easy to point to some exceptions here, but this is…
These are this Tuesday’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: American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is getting…
These are the top analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street brokerage firms early this Tuesday morning: BHP Billiton (BHP) Raised to Buy at UBS. Coach (COH) Raised to…
These are this Tuesday’s early analyst downgrades and cautious research calls which we have seen from Wall Street research firms: Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse. American Axle (AXL) Cut to Hold…
Vanity Fair has announced its “The New Establishment 100″ list for 2009. The selections are based on wealth, influence, and philanthropy, as well as such intangibles as vision and the X factor.” Topping the…
Google (GOOG) has set a deal to distribute its Chrome browser on Sony (SNE) PCs. Google has not had much success in getting computer users to switch from the two dominant browsers which are…
On Monday, the Shanghai Composite went under 2,700 and between Monday and Tuesday is back to lows not seen since May’s end. Technically, it is back in bear market territory now that it has…
The number of pieces of data that point to a strong recovery in the Chinese economy rises every day. The Purchasing Managers Index rose to 54.0 for August, up from 53.3 in July. A…