Wheat prices show no signs of slowing down as dry weather continues to plague the winter wheat crop in Texas and Oklahoma. The May contract price is about $8/bushel and the December futures price…
Two different reports painted an upbeat picture of the U.S. economy as Obama administration and Republicans in Congress remain at odds over how to tackle the federal government’s debt problem. A biannual survey released…
Today’s alt energy news leads off with the latest developments for two nuclear power plants. The Cape Wind project also got the go-ahead from the federal government, and a new airplane factory in South…
Here at Daily Austerity Watch, we are going to take the bold step of offering President Barack Obama advice on how to convince people who spend every scrap of their spare time on Facebook…
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) took a big hit in the news as shareholders sued over Sokol trades in Lubrizol. American Electric Power and NRG both pulled bad press over nuclear power facilities. Harley Davidson…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Allied Irish Bank (NYSE: AIB), Alcatel-Lucent (NASDAQ: ALU), ASML Holdings (NASDAQ: ASML), and Intel Corporation…
Updated throughout the day Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will ship the iPhone 5 in September (Reuters) GM’s (NYSE: GM) China sales may push it into the No.1 slot in global car sales ahead of Toyota…
Unemployment rates have improved rapidly in the industrial Midwest, although it is a matter of conjecture about why this is true. March unemployment in Michigan went to 10.3% this year from 13.3% in the…
Reuters reports that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch the iPhone 5 in September. The news agency said consumers should expect a faster processor. It reported no important details beyond that. The iPhone 5 faces…
Yahoo.comYahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs fell 6% in the first quarter to $1.13 billion. Net earnings dropped 28% to $223 million. Both numbers cheered Wall St. because they were better than…
Revenue from sales of IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) System z mainframe server products rose 41% last quarter. Data Center Group revenue at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) rose 32% in the last quarter. The Intel division improvement…
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will begin to ship the new version of its iPhone in September (Reuters) Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) both posted strong earnings (Reuters) A drop in Japan exports…
by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, April 18, 2011, 4 p.m. ThinkstockA report released Saturday confirmed details about what many already knew was happening: gas drillers have injected millions of gallons of fluids containing toxic or carcinogenic…
State legislators are going to be tempted to follow the dictate of that fiscal expert Mae West who famously opined that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” Of course, the film star…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ: STX), Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), and Zions Bancorporation (NASDAQ: ZION).…
Update throughout the day. The US Treasury may sell its shares in GM (NYSE: GM) soon (WSJ) Vendanta Resources bought 11% of Cairn India (Reuters) Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) will license part of its network…
Almost no one mentions also- ran handset company Sony Ericsson anymore. The firm lost money and market share over the last two years. That trend may be in reverse now. Sony Ericsson sold 8.1…
The US Treasury may want to wait a few years to sell its portion of GM. The federal government put $50 billion of taxpayer money into the largest US car company (NYSE: GM) as…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) was forced by the US government to set up a $20 billion claims facility to cover costs from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The money was meant to make businesses and…