Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is trading up sharply this morning after the retailer and part-time hedge fund managed to post positive earnings after the close on Thursday. This is a stock we had…
Anglo American plc (NASDAQ: AAUK) is seeing exact opposite calls on the positives and negatives this morning. We have seen the stock’s rating raised to the revered “Conviction Buy List” at Goldman Sachs based…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst calls from Wall Street we have seen early this Friday morning: Athenahealth (ATHN) Cut to Sell at UBS. Aruba Networks (ARUN) Raised to Buy at Jefferies;…
Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ) already face a PC market which has been weakened by falling consumer and business spending. They have been flanked at the high end of the market by pricey and…
When Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWS) bought MySpace for $580 million, Wall St. viewed it as a brilliant move. Murdoch got one of the fastest-growing properties on the Internet and it was on it…
British Airways posted a deficit for its most recent fiscal year. The company lost $595 million. Part of that was because fuel costs rose 45% to more than $4 billion. Fuel costs may have been…
Now that GM (GM) has a reasonable deal in place with the UAW, the federal government is preparing the car company for a Chapter 11 filing which may come ahead of the June 1…
Ed Liddy, the former head of Allstate who joined AIG (AIG) as chairman and chief executive officer in September quit today. He said he would stay on until the company found a replacement, or…
Shortly after S&P put the sovereign debt of the United Kingdom on credit watch, downgrading its outlook from “stable” to “negative”, Treasury Secretary Geithner said the Administration was committed to keeping America from facing…
Reuters: Chrysler is already seeing positive effects from bankruptcy. Reuters: The US is working with GM (GM) on a Chapter 11 filing as the June1 deadline looms. Reuters: Pimco’s Gross says US is at…
Market in Asia were mostly lower. The Nikkei fell .4% to 9,226. The Hang Seng was down 1.4% to 16,967. The Shanghai Composite fell .5% to 2,598. At the open in Europe, the FTSE…
Tonight on CNBC’s MAD MONEY, Jim Cramer came out with several sectors that he thinks that President Obama will be trying to change, and noted Nancy Pelosi is in the fold as well. He…
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has announced that Chairman and CEO Ed Liddy will be stepping down. He is actually waiting for the board of directors to conclude a search for a replacement. …
Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) may be seeing some cheer despite another round of lower earnings and revenues. The clothing and apparel retailer posted earnings of $0.31 EPS, or $215 million. This is down from…
The S&P Credit rating change of “negative” from “Stable” for The United Kingdom may not matter to most Americans, but the implications are there for the United States. England losing its “AAA” rating would…
by Michael Grabell and David Epstein, ProPublica One company paid nearly $1 million for destroying seagrass in the Florida Keys marine sanctuary. Another settled a discrimination case after federal investigators found it refused to…
OpenTable, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPEN) has just opened around $25.00 on its initial public offering. The online restaurant reservations system priced its 3 million share IPO at $20.00 per share, which was already well above…
LDK Solar Co.Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) has announced plans to file its 2008 report with the SEC tomorrow. As many have become used to with LDK, there is some negative news as well. The company…
Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRA) is not one of the most common names in the land of chip stocks, but that may be about to change as it won a patent fight against some…
NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) has long been considered a potential takeover target by many traders and investors. Yet this morning the company announced that it was a making a play of its own. It…