http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html China’s IPO market may have cooled as the demand for new company issues fell toward the end of last year. Investors also questioned the reliability of the books of some firms based in…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) has halted payment from its Gulf Coast Claims Facility. The fund was set, under pressure from the US governemnt, to provide as much as $20 billion for Gulf clean-up and…
Investigators and investors want to know what happened to several hundred million of capital held by nearly defunct MF Global went. There is a great deal of concern that client money was mixed with…
NBC says ads for the Superbowl are sold out. The price per 30-second spot is $3.5 million, according to Seth Winter, senior vice president of NBC Sports group sales & marketing. Reuters quotes Winter…
Dow Jones site AllThingsD reports that Yahoo! has a new CEO, although it is not clear what he will do it most or all of the company is sold. Yahoo!’s board is actively considering the disposal…
The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture is actually…
The conventional wisdom is that the surge in consumer spending that drove retail sales higher by nearly 4% over the holidays will end in the first quarter. These consumers again have taken on too…
The markets will await several critical pieces of data over the next several days. Stocks likely will not move much until this information is out. December car sales will show whether consumers still have…
The list of people who gave gifts of over $1 million includes 513 for 2011, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. That may not seem like many unless it is put in the context of…
Chrysler was supposed to stumble out of Chapter 11. The recovery of General Motors (NYSE: GM) was remarkable. Ford’s (NYSE: F) success was based on its ability to introduce new products quickly because it did…
Wall St. expects same-store sales for December to rise 4.3%. (Reuters) Returns of holiday online gifts are expect to reach a record. (Reuters) Venezuela says it will pay Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) only $225…
China’s PMI was just above or just below the dead line, depending on whether an HSBC survey or official number from the People’s Republic is correct. China’s factory activity has stalled or is falling some either way. EU…
Ticket sales for movie theaters dropped in 2011 the most in 16 years, according to Hollywood.com. Some of the fall-off is due to a dearth of blockbuster films. But the industry also has to…
Young Americans have a more positive view of socialism than capitalism, according to new research from Pew. That puts them in contrast to the balance of adults, the great major of whom view socialism negatively. But…
The U.S. sold $29.4 billion worth of F-15s to Saudi Arabia. The State Department and defense contractors can take whatever solace they need in the adage that fighter jets do not kill people — fighter…
The PMI of the eurozone contracted in December. Official numbers from research firm Markit showed a figure of 46.9 for the final month of the year. A number of 50 marks the line between expansion and…
F-16 and F-15 production lines are being extended by U.S. government sales to Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Oman by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Boeing (NYSE: BA), made through the State Department, should help…
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Hyundai and Kia have been the fast growing auto brands for two years now. They offer affordable quality much as Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Honda (NYSE: HMC) have for the last three decades.…
Asia markets rose tentatively despite low factory activity in Korea, China and Taiwan The Nikkei 225 was up .6% to 8,450. The Hang Seng was higher by .2% to 18,434. In Europe, where investors…
Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), struggling to survive, lost its third director in a week. It is a sign that the company’s rocky past will be followed by a more difficult future. Kodak management has failed in…