Americans were heartened by the ouster of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. They are pleased that Libyan madman Muammar Gaddafi may be about to get the hook as well and by the protests in Bahrain…
Employment in the private sector rose by 217,000 in February, according to the latest report from Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NYSE: ADP). The reported increase of 187,000 new jobs in January was increased to…
More than 700 mild earthquakes have shaken an area of north central Arkansas in the past six months. State geologists aren’t sure if the quakes are part of a natural swarm, such as the…
The favorite way for International Air Transport Association (IATA) president Giovanni Bisignani to describe airline profits is with the word “pathetic”. In his first forecast for 2011, Bisignani noted that profits for the industry…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Edgewater Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGW), Mexoc Lane Limited APR (NASDAQ: MCOX), SINA (NASDAQ: SINA),…
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…
Updated throughout the day Yahoo! will sell its Japan interests to Softbank for $8 billion (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will offer support services to small businesses for $499 a year. The project will be…
Most businesses which operated before 1990 had to adapt quickly or be damaged, or even destroyed, as technology quickly evolved. 24/7 Wall St. looked at several industries and picked key companies in them to…
nationsonline.orgThe equivalent of PMI in Europe is starting to look like China’s. EuroStat announced that “In January 2011 compared with January 2010, industrial producer prices gained 6.1% in the euro area and 6.5% in the…
The sales of Toyota (NYSE: TM) cars and light trucks rose 42% in February to a total of 141,826. Toyota sold nearly as many cars last month as Ford Motor (NYSE: F) did. Ford’s…
The Pew Center on the States and the Rockefeller Institute of Government have released a report which says that states overestimated the amount of money they would bring in by an aggregate 10% in 2009.…
In its first annual report to Congress, called “Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue” the Government Accountability Office argued that the federal government could save several…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in talks to sell its part of a Japanese joint venture for $8 billion. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 today. (Reuters) The SEC charged a former…
In the drive to increase solar power generation in Europe, Italy has trailed only Germany in subsidies and installed megawatts. Germany has lowered its subsidies for solar installations, though not as severely as feared…
Two weeks ago, Federal Judge Martin Feldman told the Obama administration to act within 30 days on a number of drilling permits for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,…
For reasons that are hard to understand, Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL) was hit with a wave of bad news after it announced that the company had received a permit drill in the Gulf of…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Central European Distribution Corp (NASDAQ: CEDC), Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), Sonun, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONS),…
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…
Updated throughout the day. China based hackers broke into Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE: MS) network (Bloomberg) The Sustainable Apparel Coalition which is a “green” association of retailers will measure the use of artificial substances in clothing…
The debate over brand values becomes more confused by the year. Several consultancies rank brand values. Each uses different methodologies, perhaps to defend why their figures differ from their rivals. The most recent study…