Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) lost its buyer. Liberty Media will invest $204 million in the book reseller, although it is hard to understand why the company needs the capital, based on…
Douglas A. McIntyre Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is supposed be invincible. Apparently, as your size grows your problems can grow as well. Apple’s Online Store website is down. http://store.apple.com is the failed site at the…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has continued to be the most dominating brick and mortar force in retail, even if it is far from the most attractive and even if it has…
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock has outperformed Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the past year, past two years, and past five years. But, Apple is the leader, supposedly, in the creation and marketing of…
Risk in Europe continues to drag on global shares. (Reuters) Concerns about how S&P (NYSE: MHP) sets rating bring calls for reform. (Reuters) Rules on CME (NASDAQ: CME) margins move gold lower.…
Just a day after closing its MP3 music download offering, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has launched a streaming video service for the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Walmart already offers…
Fitch and Moody’s kept the U.S. rating at Aaa (Reuters) Years of slow growth and aging populations in the West could hasten the rise of BRIC economies (Reuters) Google+ (NASDAQ: GOOG) and…
There are going to be more than just several key equity issues to watch in the week ahead. 24/7 Wall St. has compiled this weekend’s previews of non-earnings events to watch this…
Plans for a budget vote by Republicans in the House fell apart (Reuters) Moody’s threatened to downgrade Spain (Reuters) BSkyB will have a $1.6 billion share buyback (Reuters) S&P said the U.S.…
If you have been a reader of 24/7 Wall St. for long, you know that we appreciate companies that pay dividends just about as much the investors who buy companies because of…
Many economists believe it is too late for the U.S. to keep its Aaa rating (Reuters) Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) posted better-than-expect earnings (Reuters) Analysts are concerned that slow holiday sales of…
Most of the after-hours movers are on earnings reports this Tuesday evening. We have been tracking moves and added color on the after-market trading in shares of the following: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has another report that may be baffling for some investors. The online retailer of just about everything reported that income fell 8% to $191 million or $0.41 EPS…
Jon C. Ogg Earnings season is in full throttle and many major companies are due to report in the week ahead. Some of the key reports we are featuring for detailed earnings previews are the…
Last week, the long-awaited (by some) US launch of the Spotify streaming music service finally got out of the gate. At the time of the launch, the service was available by invitation…
