By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas This week I’d like to talk about issues affecting Global Market & Economic Views- US, Eurozone, Japan, China & India (in 07) The downturn in housing…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We were the first to point out that the price-fixing investigation aimed at LCD panel makers seemed a bit silly. And at least one firm is…
Pressure from investors is likely to keep Citigroup’s (C) stock moving up. The company is cutting investment spending. Many Gulf Coast companies recommended to bu after Katrina are up sharply. These include Marinc Prodocts…
The big car companies being sued by the Attorney General of Califonia for causing global warming, which harms state citizens and damages the infrastructure. Apparently no other states have followed with litigation because the…
The average price of a new car from the Big Three dropped, again. Reuters quotes that Labor Department as reporting that new vehicle prices dropped .7% in November, the largest drop in over a…
Tom LaSorda, the CEO of Chrysler, says he will be his own sales and marketing director. The fellow who held the job until recently was sacked. LaSorda says he will focus on dealer relationships…
Cable companies are getting very nervous that the FCC will make it much easier for the telecom companies to compete for home video subscription. And, the argument against cable may be convincing. Cable rates…
Stocks: (LOW)(HD) According to Barron’s, the analysts at Bear Stearns think that things are about to get much better at household goods retailer Lowe’s. Bear Stearns has put a new target on the stock…
Dell has gotten a delisting notice from Nasdaq. Its share of the PC market is dropping. Like many other US company’s maybe it will try to find the solution to its problems by expanding…
The Chinese decided to invite all of the big energy consuming nations to Beijing. The idea behind the conference is to set up a common set of goals like conserving energy and finding alternative…
Stocks: (IACA)(YHOO)(GOOG)(MSFT) The editor at Fortune seem to think they have come up with a set of circumstances in which Yahoo! could catch Google in the search industry. That’ll be the day. Fortune wants…
Picking on people with schizophrenia would seem to be very unfair. If it is a large corporation, the odds against prople with serious mental illness would really seem to be stacked against them. Lawyers…
Fortune Magazine, now in its 76th year, has floated the ballon that the iPhone from Apple (AAPL) could change the complexion of the cell phone industry. Among the notions in "How An iPhone Could…
In Friday’s video on ThStreet.com Cramer noted AIG & MO: Altria (MO) and AIG (AIG) are both buys here: AIG was noted as a cheap stock and it is his favorite stock that tends…
Someone forgot to tell the programmers at Microsoft that the new Vista operating system had to work with current version of SQL server database management software. The database management interface is critical if Micorosft…
Washington Mutual built its reputation on rapid expansion of branchs and an ultra-aggressive mortgage operation–which its continued to expand into the teeth of the housing recession. The bank’s share price has only risen 14%…
Dell finally got its non-compliance letter from Nasdaq making a delisting at least a possibility. The SEC, Justice Department have all been looking into accounting irregularities at the big PC maker. There is already…
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Submitted by CrossProfit It is amazing how many investors glance at charts in articles and don’t bother to read the text. What at first glance appeared to be a Motley Fool pump for NR…