The Ten States Running Out Of Smart People
There are several states in the U.S. that are losing the eduction race to most of the others. In the past decade, these states have declining math and reading scores, lower numbers of people…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Small Business Employment Continues To Leak
The jobs that might have been created in 2010 but were not are largely due to small businesses which could not afford to add the workers they needed to. According to a new Gallup…
Tablet PC Sales To Rise 12-Fold By 2015 Driven By Apple iPad
Apple (AAPL) may make significantly more money from its new iPad that it has on any other product it has launched since 2001 when the iPod came to market. Research firm iSuppli expects tablet…
Obama To Business: Make Improvements, But We Wont
President Obama said in his weekly address that American businesses should increase their hiring and spending but did not say that the government would do anything meaningful to either stimulate the economy or cut…
The Stock Market Last Week–Biggest Losers
S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (28 JAN-03 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 03Feb11 Close Price 28Jan11 PACCAR Inc PCAR -7.9 50.50 54.82 Genworth Financial Inc GNW -7.4 12.83 13.85 GameStop Corp.…
The Stock Market Last Week–Top Gainers
S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (28 JAN -03 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 03Feb11 Close Price 28Jan11 Market Cap($Mil) MEMC Electronic Materials Inc WFR 21.9 13.41 11.00 3049.8 Electronic Arts Inc.…
Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/4/2011) Ally IPO, Beckman Coulter M&A
Updated throughout the day. New pension finance treatment could change earnings at AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE VZ). (Bloomberg) Ally picked Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM), and Morgan…
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CSTR, PWER, JDSU)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Coinstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR), Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ: PWER), and JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ: JDSU).…
Verizon iPhone Order Shutdown
Consumers who want an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone from Verizon Wireless can no longer order it online. The Verizon Wireless website posted a message which says iPhone 4. Verizon. It begins.We are no longer…
Ten Housing Markets Where Prices Rose During The Recession
The average value of a home declined by 25% to 30% from the period from the third quarter of 2005 to the third quarter of last year. The end of 2005 and beginning of…
A Little US Government Shut Down
The fight over the increase in the US debt ceiling is on hold for awhile. The Treasury Department said tax receipts were higher than expected so the ceiling may not be reached before the…
Bernanke Is Not A Farmer
No one knows for certain why food prices around the world have risen so quickly. Ben Bernanke said the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing program is not the cause. He argues that food prices are…
Media Digest (2/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Unemployment most likely improved last month but the jobless rate may rise. (Reuters) JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) may have ignored signs that Madoff was committing fraud. (Reuters) Ben Bernanke said that if the US debt…
Many PA Gas Wells Go Unreported for Months
by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Feb. 3, 2011, 11:05 a.m. On Sept. 14, 2009, natural gas operators finished drilling the 3H well on the Lbros farm in southwest Pennsylvania. Just over four months later, they…
Viacom Posts Lower Profit, Re-Signs Deal with Hulu (VIA, NWS, DIS, CMCSA)
For its first fiscal quarter of 2011, Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) reported that profit fell -12% and revenue fell by -4.8% due mainly to weakness in the company’s film business. Viacom’s cable TV business…
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (GMCR, HNSN, ONNN, OTIV)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR), Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNSN), On…
The Return Of Layoffs
Economists cheered the ADP data that showed the private sector added 187,000 jobs in January. It did not help the stock market much but was probably offset by bad news from Egypt. The ADP…
Snow And The Future Of Retail Sales
Several industry groups and weather and securities analysts say that the cold and snowy first month of the year will hurt retail sales and airline traffic. That is almost certainly true. But, no one…
Media Digest 2/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
A judge said BP plc (NASDAQ: BP) $20 billion fund head Ken Feinberg is not independent of the oil company. (Reuters) Record snow will hurt retail sales. (Reuters) Poor weather will move food prices…
America’s Ten Biggest Corporate Turnarounds
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers and shareholders.…