GM (NYSE: GM) management informed the company’s workers this weekend that it would cut all “nonessential” costs because of parts shortages which are a result of the Japanese earthquake. GM has many customers in…
Forget the horrendous images of the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, which seem to grow worse by the minute. Most nuclear plants get themselves in trouble for not doing mundane things right like following procedures. …
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the preeminent provider of smartphones to AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless, may not get any new customers if its deal with Deutsche Telekom AG to acquire T-Mobile USA goes through. Verizon Wireless…
Just days after rumors that Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile would merge, AT&T (NYSE: T) bought the Deutsche Telekcom US division of $39 billion. The deal dashes Sprint’s hopes to challenge AT&T Wireless and…
S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (11 FEB – 17 MAR) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 17Mar11 Close Price 11Mar11 Market Cap($Mil) Medco Health Solutions Inc. MHS -11.3 54.68 63.59 22115.7 Entergy Corp.…
S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (11 MAR -17 MAR) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 17Mar11 Close Price 11Mar11 Market Cap($Mil) CONSOL Energy Inc. CNX 13.8 55.33 52.48 12517.7 Peabody Energy Corp BTU…
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 Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX), Celera Corporation (NASDAQ: CRA), and Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Updated throughout the day Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) may cut its trading desk by 5% (Reuters) Groupon’s management has indicated the company is not worth the $25 billion reported in the press (Reuters)…
One of the most significant financial problems that countries will face in the coming decades is the amount they will spend to support the elderly. This will be exacerbated by increased debt-to-GDP ratios in…
Not many things test a brand’s strength more than a price increase. Nike (NYSE: NKE) said it will increase what it charges for most products by 5.2% because of rising costs for materials including…
The main oil and gas industry trade association has set up a new safety division. Perhaps it will do better than ones created in the past. The Center for Offshore Safety will be operated by…
The Wall Street Journal and The Hay Group have released their study of executive compensation at large public companies in 2010. “CEO bonuses at 50 major corporations jumped a median of 30.5%, the biggest…
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) cut 5% of the employees in its trading operation (Reuters) Congress added another stop gap budget bill to take the federal government’s funding through April 8 (Reuters) Brent crude…
Hardware industry research firm iSuppli has issued a report which says that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) may run short on some parts used to build the iPad 2. The aftermath of the Japanese earthquake…
Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT), by almost any measure, has been one of the worst run large American companies over the last five years. The firm lost $623 million in 2010 on revenue of $3.59…
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 Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Sun Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNBC), Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), and Vodafone Group Plc (NASDAQ:…
“Well-being” is an inexplicable state of mind. How well people feel is based on their own internal compasses. Researchers have enough trouble defending the methodology used in testing people’s IQs. The difficulty of measuring…
France gets almost 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. It is also the world’s largest net exporter of electric power with Italy, the UK, Belgium, and Germany as its largest customers. While Japan…