Katelia Capital Investments, which owns a large number of shares in Tekelec (NASDAQ: TKLC), has begun a push to add a new board member which the fund has virtually hand-picked. Tekelec engages in the design, development,…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ: JDSU), Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW), and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
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. Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) and Green Mountain are in talks about a strategic partnership (Reuters) Borse Dubai has not been asked to sell its 20% stake in the London Stock Exchange…
Wall St sold down shares of FedEx (NYSE: FDX) after the company slashed its guidance for the third quarter. The company blamed bad weather and higher fuel prices. It did not say that its…
“China’s inflation accelerated in January as prices excluding food rose the most in at least six years, bolstering the case for more interest-rate increases to tame overheating risks in the fastest-growing major economy”. Bloomberg…
Ben Bernanke does not like deficits and increases in the national debt. He also believes that the economy needs to be stimulated which is why he continues to maintain his faith in QE2. The…
Customer satisfaction in the retail and online e-commerce industries is getting worse. There is no single reason for this, but it is likely that the recent economic downturn is one of the biggest factors.…
Deutsche Borse and the New York Stock Exchange are near a merger arrangement, but political issues are still a problem (Reuters) Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) and Green Mountain are close to a strategic partnership (Reuters)…
Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco. Twitter may swipe everything else. Officials in San Francisco last week approved a 6-year exemption from what the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed “city’s growth-killing…
The annual budget sent from the White House to Congress is supposed to be the start of a negotiation. It is always rancorous, but will be more than usual this year. That is for…
In remarks to a meeting of airlines executives, International Air Transport Association head Giovanni Bisagnani said that air passenger traffic would grow by a third by 2014 and that cargo traffic would grow by…
Americans love to “charge it”. This is why the darlings of plastic American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) have made solid investments in the past. In the U.S. credit card debt…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for February 14, 2011.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Seahawk Drilling, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAWK), Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ: HERO), Openwave Systems Inc.…
Updated throughout the day Zynga may raise money which would value the social game company at $7 billion (WSJ) BaFin, a German regulator, is involved in the restructuring of WestLB (Reuters) JP Morgan (NYSE:…
GE (NYSE: GE) has decided to maintain its position as the world’s largest conglomerate. It is old news that the company has been attacked for this. Recent evaluations of the one-decade tenure of CEO…
Social game network Zynga is about to be valued at $7 billion as it raises more capital. Groupon was recently valued at $6 billion, and Facebook at $50 billion. These businesses will continue to…
China’s trade surplus was $6.45 billion in January. Some economists believe that China’s import rise were partly due to higher prices that the People’s Republic must pay for commodities. Another part of the increase…
The debate over the fate of Europe’s poorer nations continues to return to Greece. It has become the canary in the coal mine as capital markets investors and other EU nations contemplate the region’s…