Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Infinera Corp (NASDAQ: INFN), and Terremark (NASDAQ: TMRK). Amazon.com,…
Updated throughout the day. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) may pay a larger portion of its bonuses in cash (WSJ) Hedge fund manager John Paulson made $4 billion last year (WSJ) Sara Lee (NYSE:…
Americans who need jobs will take jobs other than the ones they desire. A new Gallup poll says that “Six in 10 unemployed Americans say the next job they get is not likely to…
There was more bad news about the view credit rating agencies have on the debt of large developed nations. Moody’s released a new Special Comment entitled “Evolution of Moody’s Perspective on the US Aaa…
There was nothing wrong with Amazon.com’s (NYSE: AMZN) quarterly results when they are viewed through the lens of the e-commerce company’s battle with the bricks-and-mortar sector. America’s largest retailers have begun to challenge Amazon,…
The IMF “Fiscal Monitor” and ratings agencies have both warned Japan and the US on their growing debt loads (Reuters) Ford Motor’s (NYSE: F) annual profit may be its largest since 2000 (Reuters) Bank…
When officials in Beverly, Mass., outside of Boston, calculated their snow removal budget for the year, they figured that $580,000 ought to be sufficient, a 33% increase from the previous year. It turned out…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLWS), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), and Starbucks…
Updated throughout the day Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) has no bid from Apollo and JBS SA (Bloomberg) After poor earnings Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may go through a restructuring (various) ‘Douglas A. McIntyre
The first thing that experts in the gaming industry will point out about the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) portable NGP video game console is that it cannot succeed in a market crowded by similar…
The Chinese government raised the level of the minimum down payment that its citizens must have on second homes to 60% from 50%. The People’s Republic authorities also said the local governments should put…
Standard & Poor’s reported that it had lowered its long-term sovereign credit ratings on Japan to ‘AA-‘ from ‘AA’. At the same time, S&P affirmed the ‘A-1+’short-term sovereign credit ratings. The outlook on the…
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings will be hurt by slowing PC sales .(Reuters) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to cut the dividend on their preferred shares. The money goes to the Treasury Department. (FT)…
Following a weak fourth quarter earnings report and an even weaker outlook on profits for 2011, Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) CEO Jim McNerney said on the company’s conference call that Boeing could replace its…
Richard Braddock has been a director of Eastman Kodak since 1987. The CEO of internet grocer Fresh Direct and former top Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) executive has held the job as the once important…
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings for its fourth quarter, but not that much better. There were some bright spots, including a jump of 14% in display ad revenue to $635…
The Commerce Department reports that new home sales reached a 47-year low in 2010 at 321,000. According to the AP, the figure was “a drop of 14.4 percent from the 375,000 homes sold in…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Eagle Bulk Shipping (NASDAQ: EGLE), MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS), RF Micro Devices (NASDAQ: RFMD), Pacific…
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. Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) rejected a private equity offer for the company (NYPost) Glencore may launch its IPO in both London and Hong Kong (NYT)