Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 important American brands that we predict will disappear within a year. This year’s list reflects the brutally competitive nature of certain industries and the reason…
This report is updated throughout the day if rumors arise on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire. Rumor has it that Samsung’s next version of Galaxy will be larger in its fight to…
The G20 meeting ended with a pledge to support the ongoing integrity of the euro, as well as promises to create plans to bring down the borrowing costs of the region’s weakest…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has two main partners to help it enter the mobile world. One is Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which sells the tabletlike e-reader Nook. The…
Speculation continues about what the success or failure the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Surface tablet will be. One of the observations about the machine is that Microsoft kept its development secret from all…
Huge South Korean electronics company LG Electronics will abandon its tablet PC effort, according to Bloomberg. LG is among the five largest cellphone makers in the world. It should have the ability…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.At a hastily arranged event scheduled for today at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to announce a new tablet device to be built…
Spain’s bond yields quickly rose above 7% today for 10-year sovereign paper. Greece’s acceptance of austerity measures, based on results of the elections, provided no confidence that Spain — in its second recession…
Rumors are that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will release a tablet PC today. It will run a version of Windows Mobile designed to operate on ARM architecture. Most analysts of the tablet market…
Several G20 nations have signaled that their central banks will do what is necessary to keep credit markets liquid so that capital is available to keep the global money system from the…
Tech industry blog The Wrap reports that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will release its own tablet PC next week. That means it will follow Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) into the premium portable smartphone and…
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) may have finally seen the bottom. That is at least what one analyst is calling today. Today’s rating change shows an upgrade at Citigroup to “Neutral”…
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) each made what they considered important announcements yesterday. Neither piece of news addressed the core problems each company faces, which is that they…
The US Census Bureau reported this morning that retail sales in May fell by -0.2% month-over-month. Compared with May 2011, however, retail sales rose by 5.3%. For the three-month period of March…
24/7 Wall St. loves companies which send capital back to shareholders via dividends. With all of the uncertainty in today’s markets and in the fluctuating economy, having a solid dividend policy may…
