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…
Updated throughout the day The Federal Reserve may auction off AIG (NYSE: AIG) subprime inventory instead of selling it back to the company (WSJ) US banks may settle foreclosure fraud accusations with banks if…
Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) announced that its fiscal fourth quarter sales for the period which ended on February 26 rose 36% to $4.1 billion. During the quarter, RIM shipped about 14.9 million BlackBerry smartphones…
The L.L. Bean website says the retailer will offer free shipping for any order placed with the company. Unlike other retailers there will be no minimum purchase price to qualify. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), the…
The Federal Reserve issued one of the wonderfully detailed reports that only government agencies can create that tells Americans the extent of their poverty. The only weakness of the report is that the most…
America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before the middle of the…