Home Depot’s Earnings Bar Lowered After Lowe’s (HD, LOW)
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) is set to report earnings tomorrow morning and it may have just caught a break now that Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) missed its earnings and has seen…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
24/7 Wall St. TV: VW’s Huge Mistake
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, the company known to most Americans as VW, wants to become the world’s largest car company within a decade. VW has almost no chance of realizing that aspiration because it did not…
Can a $4,000 Car Help to Cure GM? (TTM)
General Motors may be closer to getting into cars as cheap as some go-carts. A report over the weekend in the WSJ noted that GM plans to produce one of the compact cars for…
Cash for Clunkers: The Seen and Unseen
John Tamny of RealClearMarkets When asked who his favorite economist was, Ronald Reagan used to say Fredric Bastiat. Bastiat was a 19th-century economic philosopher from France, and while his numerous books are full of…
Top Day Trader Alerts (BDX, BRK-A, BPAX, FSLR, GFG, IDCC, LOW, HD, RST)
These are this Monday’s top day trader and active stock alerts. We have more detailed data on volume and price analysis with links through to VSInvestor.com on each stock: Becton Dickinson & Company (NYSE:…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ARIA, ADSK, BJ, CX, ENOC, GLNG, IT, N, PSA, WMT)
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street firms we have seen early this Monday morning: Ariad Pharma (NASDAQ: ARIA) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) Raised to…
Almost 90% Of US Paper Money Has Traces Of Cocaine
Filed in the folder marked “facts most people would never imagine” is the news that nearly nine out of ten bills in the US are contaminated with cocaine. Data released by the American Chemical…
Access To GPS In US Gets Cheap As Apple (AAPL) iPhone Apps Grow
Two years ago, GPS products cost more than $1,000. Car companies charged as much as $2,500 for the systems. Tom Tom and Garmin (GRMN) stocks hit remarkably high levels on demand for GPS devices…
A Ray Of Hope In Japan
Some experts on the Japanese economy, the world’s second largest, compared the current recession to the nation’s “lost decade” of the 1990s when real estate and stock market prices plunged and the country went…
Higher Taxes In 2011 Should Drive Stronger Than Expected GDP Growth In 2010
More and more economists talk about a “V”-shaped recovery. The recession has been so bad, their theory goes, that there is now pent-up demand for goods and services. New data from the government show…
The Largest Business Blunder Of The Year: VW Gave Up The US Market
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, the company known to most Americans as VW, wants to become the world’s largest car company within a decade. VW has almost no chance of realizing that aspiration because it did not…
Media Digest 8/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: China Investment Corp will put $2 billion into US mortgages. Reuters: The US pay czar says be can “claw back” executive compensation. Reuters: Japan is pulling out of its recession. Reuters: China will…
Asia Markets And Europe Open 8/17/2009
Markets in Asia were sharply lower. The Nikkei fell 3.1% to 10,289. The Hang Seng was down 3.5% to 20,169. PetroChina (PTR) was down 4%. The Shanghai Composite was off 5.8% to 2,871. At…
Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Q2-2009 Holdings P to Z (BRK-A, PG, SNY, STI, TMK, USB, USG, UNH, UNP, UPS, WBC, WMT, WPO, WFC, WLP, WSC)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has released its public stock holdings for Q2-2009 as of June 30, 2009. Buffett did make some portfolio changes that have been seen here from the end of Q1…
Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett Q2-2009 Holdings G to O (BRK-A, GCI, GE, GSK, HD, IR, IRM, JNJ, KFT, LOW, MTB, MCO, NLC, NKE, NSC, NRG)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has released its Q2-2009 public equity holdings as of June 30, 2009. There are some portfolio changes that have been seen here from the end of Q1 and we…
Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Q2-2009 Holdings A to F (BRK-A, AXP, BAC, BDX, BNI, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDCO, COP, COST, ETN, CEG)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has shown its Q2-2009 holdings as of June 30, 2009. There are some portfolio changes that have been seen here from the end of Q1 and we have broken…
Mixed Rig Counts Despite Higher Oil
Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has released its weekly rig counts for the U.S., Canada, and international. While oil continues to stay high, the rig count picture is a mixed. The U.S. Rig Count…
How Deep Are Buffett’s SEC & Derivative Issues? (BRK-A) (BRK-B)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.(NYE: BRK-A) (BRK-B) had its earnings and quarterly report last Friday, but the aftermath this week has shown more derivative criticism. But more importantly, issues over SEC correspondence have been gathering some…
The Recession Will Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
“Do not go gentle into that good night.” –Dylan Thomas The recession, which was supposed to be ending, is hanging on for dear life if some of the economic data out this week are any…
BofA Sees Big Upside in Citigroup (C, BAC)
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is trading higher this morning on an analyst upgrade. This would probably be a much more important call had financials not run so much. Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised…