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 Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS), EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering (NASDAQ: EXFO), SemiLEDS Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS), and Micron…
Updated throughout the day KKR may make a bid for Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) (Reuters) MySpace may be spun off by News Corp (NYSE: NWS) (WSJ) Douglas A. McIntyre
Moody’s made comments on the sovereign paper of the UK, UK, Germany, and France. Each of these nations has a Aaa rating currently. The assessment of each was harsh but the US was singled…
Death in America is a $15 billion a year industry. That includes funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, but excludes related costs such as headstones and crypts. It is expensive to die in the United…
Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner has had six official delays in its launch data, and more if every glitch in production is counted. Boeing says it will announce another new release plan in two…
nationsonline.orgThe World Economic Forum has offered its annual evaluation of the economic situation around the globe. It does not like what it sees, for the most part. There is some sense to that. Most…
The Congressional Oversight Panel is skeptical that the Treasury Department will ever recoup its investment in GM. The new report from the panels says: GM is furthest along in the process of repaying taxpayers.…
Any hope of a recovery for the economies of developed nations in the near term was questioned rigorously by The World Bank. Growth in the developed world, in fact, will be inadequate so far…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) will meet banks to choose those that will handle the sale of the Treasury’s share in the company. (Reuters) With a split Congress it is less likely that there will be…
The Mortgage Bankers Association publishes a summary of mortgage applications every week, and as a barometer of home sales it adds some color to the official reports from the government. For last week, the…
India’s low-fare airline IndiGo has placed a $15.6 billion order with European Aeronautic Defence and Space NV (OTC: EADSY) for 180 new aircraft, including 150 of EADS’s re-modeled Airbus A320. The order could push…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX), China Recycling Energy Group (NASDAQ: CREG), Lululemon Athletica (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. The head of AMD (NYSE: AMD) left because of differences with the board over the firm’s mobile strategy (WSJ) Comverse Technology may sell its majority share in Verint Systems (WSJ)…
Short sellers cut their bets against tech shares as earnings seasons approaches, based on data of short interest in major stocks as of December 31. Shares short in Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) dropped 17% to…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store may have 300,000 downloadable software applications, but Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is gaining on that number at a remarkable pace. The Apple app figure doubled in 2010. Android apps…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that job bias claims reached a record in its fiscal year which ended last September. As evidence, the agency said reports by workers “hit an unprecedented level…
It was only a few weeks ago that the Irish debt crisis caused investors to lose confidence in the sovereign debt of other financially weak EU nations. There has been recent speculation that Portugal…
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) will increase financial disclosure but the firm will do little else to change its business practices. (Reuters) A few economists believe the Fed could run out of money. (Reuters)…