Lastest Stories by Douglas A. McIntyre

It was just over the weekend that we noted how cautious the initial public offering market has become.  What a difference a couple months can make.  Today marks the debut of AGA Medical Holdings,...
The Department of Energy’s weekly energy inventories data is giving another mixed picture similar to last week.  The difference is that this was more in-line with expectations that what we saw...
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) was out yesterday talking up “enormous progress” that has been made since a year ago.  His comments came from an interview and an...
Updated throughout the day.Updated at 1.11 PM EST:  Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will sell First Republic for $1 billion.  (The Deal)Updated 1.05 PM EST:  Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may be teaming up with...
These are this morning’s top pre-market day trader alert stocks for Wednesday.  We have more detailed analysis and data on each stock linked through to VSInvestor.com: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:...
This morning’s banking reports from Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) might as well be called the Warren Buffett banking reports, or the banking earnings for Berkshire...
Financial results and news out of Boeing (NYSE:BAC) has been getting worse by the month as the company delay its new 787 and a revamped version of the 747.Today Boeing released results for the third...
These are this Wednesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations which we have seen early on from Wall Street research calls: ACE Limited (ACE) Started as Outperform at RBC...
Based on industry figures, Las Vegas casinos will only bring in about $4.8 billion this year.Receipts in Macau rose 22% to $3.8 billion in the third quarter. While casino companies lose money in...
Former Fed chief Paul Volker has argued that America’s largest banks should be broken up to prevent a situation in which another credit crisis would force the government to spend hundreds of...
The Troubled Asset Relief Program inspector Neil Barofsky has almost nothing good to say about the way the Treasury has handled the TARP. He released his latest report to Congress today.His first...
Larry’s Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ:OFCL) does not make idle threats. He does not have to. In most games against his competition he holds the majority of the cards. He has taken...
Wall St. was impressed by but not euphoric about Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) third quarter earnings. The company’s net revenue was $1.131 billion, down from $1.325 billion in the period last year. Net...
Reuters:   China is having trouble managing supply and demand. Reuters:   Geithner said the core programs of the TARP are ending. Reuters:   Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) tripled it profits....
Markets in Asia were slightly lower.The Nikkei was down a fraction at 10,333.The Hang Seng was down .1% to 22,372. China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) was down.The Shanghai Composite dropped .5% to 3,071.At the...