Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(NIPNY)(NTT)(SNE)(TM)(CNH)(CN)(PCW)(HBC) Markets in Asia were largely up. The Nikkei rose .7% to 16,528. Bridgestone was down 1.7% to 2640 Canon was up .2% to 6440. Daiwa Securities was up .2% to 1319. Fuji…
Stocks: (DTV)(DISH)(VA)(T) Cable and satellite TV have battled for the American living room for a number of years. Both can offer hundreds of channels and now both offer HD TV. The telecom companies have…
stocks: (HD)(WMT) After Wal-Mart’s succesful move into China, it was to be expected that other large US retailers would see the wisdom of turning to China for growth. After two years of negotiating, Home…
Stocks: (MEL)(STN)(ASCA)(PNK)(PENN)(ISLE)(INTU)(MDT)(NT)(GHS)(TRB)(GCI)(LEE)(JRC)(ACL)(VOD)(PFE)(EDS)(DIS)(AAPL) Mellon and Bank of New York have announced a merger and Barron’s had suggested that there needed to be an event to unlock Mellon value. The bank’s shares, currently at $42 could…
Microsoft’s MSN and other online businesses used to be a pretty big deal. They sat at the top of the pack with AOL and Yahoo!. That was before social networking and video sharing and….…
Congress has finally passed a bill that will allow oil companies to drill for the 1.26 billion barrels of oil that sit below the Gulf of Mexico south of the Florida panhandle. Although drilling…
Stocks: (TWX)(VZ)(CMCSA)(CVC)(T) I would appear that when two companies offer TV and other services over lines into the home, prices drop a lot. According to the American Consumer Institute, the drop is 27% over…
Stocks: (C)(JPM)(BAC)(PUK) There is no amount of bad press or investor discontent that can keep Citigroup from buying new pieces to add to its empire. Now that the rumors of a Bank of America…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a pharmaceutical stock which has outperformed the S&P with less volatility, and which may also benefit if the U.S. Dollar continues to weaken against European currencies. And as a kicker, Glaxo…
From BioHealth Investor by Adam Rubenstein NeoVista, Inc. (Fremont, CA), an ophthalmic device company focused on the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, has raised $41M in Series C funding. Essex Woodlands Health Ventures led…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas On November 30th MSFT released Windows Vista operating system after tons of delays and glitches- so what does this mean for shareholders? After all the delays…
Comcast has grown tired of the talk about Verizon and AT&T’s plans to use their new fiber-to-the-home infrastuctures to steal the cable company’s customer. Their reasoning may be sound. Comcast moved into the VoIP…
Like a champion marathon runner trying to put more distance between himself and his pursuers, Toyota is planning to streamline the way it makes cars and builds factories. Woe to the competition. Toyota wants…
Stocks: (GOOG)(NWS)(VIA)(CBS)(GE) Late word is that News Corp’s Fox, CBS, Viacom, and GE’s NBC Universal are cooking up a plan to start a video website to compete with Google’s YouTube. The site would be…
Stocks: (MSFT)(SNE) Research firm NPD says that Nintendo sold over 476,000 units of its new Wii platform in the US in November. Sony Playstation 3 sold 197,000 in the same period. Both were introduced…
Stocks: (S)(INTC)(MOT)(MSFT)DELL) Sprint Nextel is out of favor, Way out. Wall St thinks its third place spot behind Cingular and Verizon Wireless ain’t a good place to be. And intergating the Nextel purchase has…
The head of Barclays sold shares in the bank to prove that Bank of America had made no bid, nor was it likely to. He could not sell of he had knowledge of a…
Julie Roehm, the recently sacked head of advertising at Wal-Mart, may actually have been doing a good job. She did a good job and DaimlerChrysler, which landed her the Wal-Mart job. She then broke…
McDonald’s cannot be stopped with an elephant gun. The huge food chain announced November same store sales rose 6.2%. Premium coffee and promotional games seemed to be big contributors. US sales were up 5.1%.…
Stocks: (BAC)(C)(BCS) Bank of America got a lot of press for passing Citigroup as the world’s largest bank based on market cap. Now, it wants to make the same mistakes that Citi has made:…