Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt has left the Apple (AAPL) board. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two companies, a sign that the war among large tech companies is growing…
The following are among the top day trader and active trader alert stocks with major price and volume action. We have links to more detailed analysis and price action at VSInvestor.com: Savient Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:…
These are the top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen from Wall Street firms early this Monday morning: Allergan (AGN) Raised to Outperform at Baird. Burger King (BKC) Cut to Neutral at…
High oil prices were supposed to be a thing of the past, driven lower by over-supply in the US and a continuing recession is almost every large economy other than China. The smallest hint…
HSBC (HBC) announced that its earnings fell 57% to $3.35 billion during the first half of the year. The largest bank in Europe was able to temper some of its deficit for bad loans…
New date from S&P LCD presented by the FT, shows that large private equity firms have $400 billion in debt that needs to be paid in the next five years. That debt load could…
Nissan’s new Leaf car doesn’t use any gas and it does not produce any emissions. It is electric and it will be available in the US, Japan, and Europe next year. Nissan chief Carlos…
The inclination of the Administration’s “pay czar” will be to pressure Citigroup (C) not to pay $100 million due to the head of its Phibro energy trading unit. The amount is an embarrassment to Citi…
China’s manufacturing sector expanded again in July, according to the central government. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to a seasonally adjusted 53.3 in July from 53.2 in June, the Federation of Logistics and…
Reuters: Video games hope to make a comeback with new titles and price cuts. Reuters: “Cash for clunkers” should help July car figures. Reuters: USB (UBS) shares should do well after it settled with…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell a fraction of a percent to 10,352. Toyota (TM) rose on Ford’s (F) strong July numbers. The Hang Seng rose .2% to 20,620. The Shanghai Composite…
Ford (F) made two audacious decisions recently, decisions made in an industry where audacity is a distant memory that died when Lee Iaccoca left the business. William Clay Ford, Jr., the company’s CEO since…
The Times of London reports that the Guardian Media Group may close its venerable Observer newspaper. The cuts by the firm may have to go deeper than that based on its most recent financial…
It always good to keep watch lists. There were some key issues over the last week that will have important implications for the coming week (or weeks). This is definitely the case for Tyson…
Microsoft (MSFT) has talked about using its Bing search engine to search the Internet “real time” to pick up Twitter messages and other information and data that rockets across the web nanosecond by nanosecond.…
The good news for PC companies is that consumers are starting to buy computers again. The bad news is that they are not paying very much for the machines. The “new” PC business is…
We recently gave a list of companies which we thought Warren Buffett might want to consider selling or lightening up on after Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) disclosed that it had finally decided to…
The $1 billion “Cash for Clunkers” program was an ideal way for the government to protect its $50 billion investment in GM by stimulating domestic car sales as the industry enters the critical new…
Microsoft Corp’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Steve Ballmer inks a deal with Yahoo, the software giant’s biggest in years, and all of a sudden he’s invincible. He sure made it sound that way at the company’s…
XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO) is not a usual company we’d cover because of the size and because of the Bulletin Board status. But this week we have been getting multiple inquiries about this…