Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Icagen, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICGN), Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Pain Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTIE), and Zalicus,…
Updated throughout the day. David Solomon may be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) (Reuters) Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Siemens will restructure their joint venture after a failure to find an investor…
Greece’s Deputy Prime Minister Theodore Pangalos told El Mundo that short -term austerity policies will be approved by the Parliament. Long-term ones, which include a list of many Greek government assets that are for…
Nissan said it plans to have 8% of the global market for light trucks and cars by the end of 2016. The Japanese manufacturer did not mention that every other global car company has…
Inflation may have caught hold in much of the developing world. It has certainly started to affect on the US economy. The Fed can argue that rates near zero are necessary to fuel growth…
Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the United States ranks 37th in life expectancy, according to the World Health Organization’s most recent longevity report. While the reasons for this are…
China is worried that inflation will be above the government goal and result in higher interest rates as its economy slows. (Reuters) David Solomon may be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs. (NYSE: GS)…
Continued success of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and the chance that a new version of the smartphone would launch in September pressures Motorola Mobility’s shares. A battle between Walgreen’s and joint venture partner…
CarMax shares moved sharply higher as the used car chain posted higher earnings than expected. Used car prices have risen and sales have tracked the upward momentum of those of new car firms GM…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of ASM International (NASDAQ: ASMI), Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), and Pain Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTIE).…
Updated throughout the day. Everbright of China delayed a $6 billion IPO (Reuters) Regulators will begin an examination of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) possible monopoly in the US search market (WSJ) China blocked a Hong…
J.D. Power released its initial quality auto survey for this year which is based on questions put to 78,000 motorists. The headline most of the media carried about was that the Ford name plate…
Research firm BIA/Kelsey released a survey widely covered in the press predicted that “total U.S. mobile ad spending will grow from $790 million in 2010 to $4 billion in 2015.” The reason for its…
The IEA and OPEC disagreed about the size of oil reserves. (Reuters) Greece has an agreement with the EU and IMF along with new austerity plans. (Reuters) A Reuters poll says most forecasters have…
New Greece Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos tried to renegotiate more favorable bailout terms at the last minute with the IMF and EU. He supposedly believed that a less onerous package would be easier to…
It cost $25,299 to raise a child from birth to age 18 in 1960. The amount rose to $226,920 last year. This may be one of the many reasons Americans are having fewer children…
This morning’s announcement by the International Energy Agency that it would release 60 million barrels of crude from member nations’ stocks has dealt a crushing blow to commodity prices. Only the US dollar is…
The 28 countries comprising the International Energy Agency (IEA) have agreed to release a total of 60 million barrels of oil as a result of the continuing supply disruption to Libyan oil. This is…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Achillion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ACHN), Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE), Nokia Corporation (NYSE:…
The Federal Reserve barely cuts its forecast for GDP growth in this year and next. The agency estimated the economy will expand 2.7 percent to 2.9 percent this year, down from a forecast of…