Landor Associates puts out a study called Breakaway Brands. The survey claims to measure the financial contributions made by individual brands to their parents’ bottom lines. According to the survey, picked up in CNN…
According to a study picked up by the FT, "US companies’ rush to boost year-end earnings by discounting products and delaying payments is counterproductive and leaves their balance sheets more than 20 per cent…
Markets in Europe were off modestly at 6.15 AM New York time The FTSE fell .6% to 6,685. Barclay’s (BCS) fell 2.8% to 587. Northern Rock fell 4.1% to 177. Unilever (UN) rose 4.6%…
Citigroup’s capital levels are way down. Part of this comes from a drop in the value of its asset base and part from a string of acquisitions that the bank has made. A new…
bebe Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEBE) has announced that it will discontinue buying product with animal fur starting January 2008. CEO, Gregory Scott, said "……..bebe has gone to great lengths in working with its vendors to…
Most analysts believe that October car sales will be down slightly from a year ago. While units sold by GM (GM) and Toyota (TM) are expected to be relatively flat, Ford (F) is expected…
Forget about the credit crisis and home mortgage problems. The largest single threat to economic stability in the US and most other country’s could be an emerging fuel crisis in China. Yesterday, the Beijing…
According to Reuters, US car sales are expected to have fallen in October. Reuters writes that China has approved the trading of stock futures. Reuters reports that Google (GOOG) is in talks with Sprint…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .8% to 16,870. Canon (CAJ) rose 3.7% to 5960. NTT Data fell 5.8% to 493000. Softbank rose 5.2% to 2810. Sony (SNE) rose 3.4% to 5830.…
Wall Street analysts covered a few of the alternative energy names today: SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR was started as an Outperform rating at RBC Capital Markets; LDK Solar (NYSE:LDK) was downgraded to "Market Perform" at Piper…
The new Google (GOOG) OpenSocial Platform list of sites includes Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, and Viadeo. Below is a chart from Hitwise comparing the audience to Facebook. Facebook is nines times…
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he has a small speculative stock that got crushed. Nastech Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTK) is supposed to win from an intranasal delivery system, and it is…
Integrated oil giant ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) is set to report earnings on Thursday morning, and it is still a wonder as to why shares are lagging behind the market when oil traded up over $4.00…
Some traders might bother peering at the losses on Medarex (NASDAQ:MEDX), but all we are looking at for the time being is the forward study data and the company’s use of cash and burn…
Shares of CROCS Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) are getting hammered in after-hours trading. The highly successful maker of ugly shoes that everyone still loves posted earnings: Revenues up 130% to $256.3 million (consensus $258.4 M); EPS…
Fremont General (FMT) Mortgage company talks with investor fall apart. Stock drops to $2.74 from 52-week high of $17.30. Watts Industries (WTS) Downgraded after poor earnings. Falls to $27.91 from 52-week high of $46.71.…
Most days investors might get thrown into a stir when one of the most active stocks like Sirius Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) has a "SELL" rating next to it, particularly if it comes from a…
The FOMC did trim both the Fed Funds Rate and the Discount Rate by 25 basis points each today. There was some dissention among the Fed Governors if you read through the statement. You…
Now that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has crossed that $700 threshold, there are some analysts that are going to have to either raise thair targets or make other calls on the stock. We noted before what…
JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ:JDSU) is set to post earnings after today’s close and First Call had the last estimates seen at $0.06 EPS on revenues of $355.8 million. The company usually offers some guidance, and…