courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) was supposed to have big news out around its earnings. We will cover the earnings of course, but the corporate governance issues are going to dwarf the earnings…
ThinkstockIf you think it is painful to watch the decline (or plummet) in the price of gold and silver as a financial buyer, imagine participating in this decline as a jewelry retailer or as…
The US Treasury 30-year bond, the so-called Long Bond, is proving to be a widow-maker to those who bought a couple of months ago. Most investors did not want to hear that a mere…
ThinkstockThe volatility in the stock market is coming with an unusual twist and that is that there is no place to hide. The market flush is being seen over concerns about the end of…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.You can try to interpret the news line by line, or you can just watch the ticker tape to see what it is telling you. When you have the price…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe stock and bond markets remain weak on Thursday. After a weak report on weekly jobless claims, now we have a report on leading economic indicators and data from the…
Emerging markets have been under fire, but the financial markets have to plan for the day when markets are stable and things are normal again. Now exchange traded fund (ETF) investors have yet another…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThere is something that is rare in the financial markets, but it does happen from time to time. It is called The Market Flush, and it essentially is exactly what…
ThinkstockIf China is truly the world’s growth engine, there is about to be less growth and less reason to be optimistic about the global recovery. HSBC has trimmed its gross domestic product forecasts for…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is showing that weekly jobless claims are headed in the wrong direction. Just a day after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was interpreted as cutting off the…
ThinkstockReasons to be optimistic on continued rising natural gas pricing may be fading. Last year, hot summer temperatures boosted power demand and held up gas prices. This year, temperatures could be much milder and…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Thursday, June 20, 2013. They include FedEx, HP, Sprint and Walmart.
ThinkstockThe two main reasons people argue for online sales tax is they say that it is unfair to the bricks-and-mortar companies, and it will raise more tax revenue. In the view of UBS A.G.…
ThinkstockIt has been a very long time since anything really good happened at Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU). Now the company is planning another round of layoffs and another round of trimming down units to…
Being an investor in emerging markets is supposed to come with great growth opportunities as the local populations begin the purchase and consumption of more and more goods and services outside of just food,…
ThinkstockThe home building sector has yet another initial public offering headed its way. A company called City Ventures, Inc. filed its paperwork on Tuesday with the SEC that will allow it to come public…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) may have come back handily from the recession and it may have the highest dividend yield of all major conglomerate stocks. That does not mean that Wall Street will…
thinkstockWe have now seen yet another day of triple-digit moves as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 206 points at 15,112 on Wednesday. The FOMC was the excuse, but what is more than…
flickr / gsfcTropical Depression Two has now come Tropical Storm Barry. The storm has formed after crossing the Yucatan and in the Gulf of Mexico off of the eastern coastline of Mexico. The current…
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe bond market and stock market have both been anxiously awaiting the announcement from the FOMC and a conference from Ben Bernanke after the Fed’s two-day meeting. Perhaps the markets have…