The Pew Charitable Trusts released its 2010 “Who’s Winning The Clean Energy Race” study. Many experts in the field consider it the gold standard of research in the field of green energy investment by…
The 2011 Oscar telecast will go down as one of the worst in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At least that is what many Internet critics argued. Hollywood…
Off-exchange traded fund BATS will go public to challenge NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ). (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has take a sex bias case against it to the Supreme Court (Reuters)…
Swiss-based commodities trading house Glencore International expects to conduct an initial public offerin gon the Hong Kong exchange around the end of April. The company aims to raise $10 billion with this offering and…
Here is our latest installment of the Daily Austerity Watch, 24/7 Wall St.’s summary of the major news off efforts by governments to bring their fiscal houses in order. US Government: The game of…
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 Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Fuqi International, Inc. (NASDAQ: FUQI), JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO), and NVIDIA…
Updated throughout the day. Glencore will have its Hong Kong IPO this week (Reuters) Facebook may hire former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs (NYT) Harry & David Holdings may file Chapter 11 (WSJ) Nasdaq…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is so upset by the prospect that it must collect state sales taxes on items it sells that it will desert its operations in Dallas because Texas sent it a bill…
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party was badly beaten in the elections just held in Baden-Württemberg, where it has been the dominate political force for more than five decades. The Green Party will probably take control in the…
Buried in The Wall Street Journal is a summary of the recent study done by management research firm ExecuNet Inc. The core is that CEOs and the people who work for them directly often do…
Facebook may hire the former White House press secretary Gibbs (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will reopen stores it had to shutter in Japan (Reuters) Jobs may be the lagging indicator for a recovery again…
By Robert Herbst You think you are paying more at the corner gas station? Checkout what the airline industry is looking at! If the current price of jet fuel was the average for the year? It…
There are several counties in America, each with more than 10,000 homes, which have vacancy rates above 55%. The rate is above 60% in several. Most people who follow unemployment and the housing crisis…
Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, would like the central bank to get out of the QE2 business as soon as possible. He offers a number of…
Americans continue to protest cuts in Social Security as a means to bring down the national deficit. It appears that some expect payments to be lower. A new Gallup polls shows that retired people…
Lennar (NYSE: LEN) received a large amount of bad press after it was disclosed that an outsider had been accused of insider trading in the company’s shares Alcatel Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) image was rubbed…
Here is our latest installment of the Daily Austerity Watch, 24/7 Wall St.’s summary of the major news off efforts by governments to bring their fiscal houses in order. Portugal: Leave it to the…
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 Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSPM), Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ: PANL), Research…