Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST), California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPKI), and Vivus, Inc.…
Updated throughout the day. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will launch an online payment system this week (Reuters) Diageo may buy Jose Cuervo (Reuters) State attorneys general told several banks that they face civil suits which…
Divorce is a common in America today. In many cases, divorce affects people from all walks of life similarly except for the poor. Between 2005 and 2009, 10.8 percent of “white” people referred to…
Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) Chief Executive Howard Stringer is living proof of “Murphy’s Law.” Everything that could have gone wrong for the media and electronics giant has done so. Last month came word that personal…
No industry was able to avoid short selling activity, particularly among its largest companies. Tech, automotive, conglomerates, consumer goods, and financial shares were all under pressure, and big firms took the brunt of the…
Anyone who has watched the US economy falter would suppose that American GDP growth will be a drag on the global economic recovery. The OECD sees the situation otherwise, although facts undermine the conclusions…
The new Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) formula for success is straightforward. Sell a wider set of products. Offer free Wifi. Concentrate on the current chain of stores instead of rapidly expanding them as the company…
Mr. Irvine Hockaday is on the boards of Ford Motor Company and Estee Lauder. He was the President and CEO of Hallmark from 1986 to 2001. 24/7 Wall St.’s Douglas McIntyre and Michael Sauter sat…
The economic situation in Greece isn’t a Greek Tragedy. It’s just really depressing. Today, the financial press reported that Antonis Samaras, the head of the opposition New Democracy party, was balking at the government’s…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Identive Group (NASDAQ: INVE), Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), and GT Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Updated throughout the day. JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM), UBS, and Deutsche Bank have been added to the list of financial firms targeted by the NY State Attorney General over mortgage backed securities sales (Bloomberg)…
There is more bad news for liberal arts majors who already have a hard time with job searches because they are perceived to have no ready skills for most employers. College graduates with petroleum…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) share price is supposed to keep going up. Many brokers have price targets for the stock above $400 and some are as high as $450. The stock trades at $334 now,…
Americans have several options to fight high gas prices. They can stay at home, use public transportation, join car pools, shop online, or buy new fuel-efficient vehicles. Auto manufacturers have also raised prices recently…
Experts say a Greek default would harm other EU nations and banks. (Reuters) Several insurers face large losses because of US weather damage. (Reuters) AIG (NYSE: AIG) will price shares to be sold to…
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) have suggested that their clients buy oil futures now. Between them, they believe Brent crude prices will settle between $120 and $130 this year. Brokerage…
Yesterday, the FBI trumpeted the news that violent crime dropped 5.5% in 2010 while reported property crimes fell 2.8% during the depths of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. The news, though,…
Fewer people are madder about fiscal austerity than leaders of labor unions. Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, was quoted last week as saying that Democrats better get on board with the union’s…
If you are a student you can buy a Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) PC and get a free Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) XBox. The Dell PC can cost as little as $699. Dell makes the offer…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Aixtron AG (NASDAQ AIXG), Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), and Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE). Aixtron…