The rook of a second nuclear reactor blew off in Japan. (Reuters) A hacker group plans to release Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) e-mails today. (Reuters) Members of Congress are certain of…
This next week is going to be a very light one for earnings but will be a very active week for other news. The Japanese quake aftermath and many other more company-specific…
It was just two years ago today that the U.S. markets reached an absolute bottom. Investors were reeling and the public was literally getting ready for a breakdown of the system. After…
The Federal Reserve may change it bond buying plans because of higher oil prices. (Reuters) Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) plans to double profits by 2015 through the launch of new hybrids and…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is performing rather well when you consider that the bank’s dividend is not likely to rise as fast as some of the more healthy banks. The…
HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA) is coming public this week in what is expected to be roughly a $3.5 billion IPO. The sale is for about 124 million shares in a price…
Updated throughout the day Charities Smile Train and Operation Smile will merge (NYT) The EU will make bank stress tests more challenging (FT) Bank of America’s (NYSE: BAC) CEO Brian Moynihan, will…
Douglas A. McIntyre Jon OggThis last week had some key analyst calls that either stood out from the pack, showed some key insight, or which moved shares more than just a garden variety upgrade or…
Cigna (NYSE: CI) was hit particularly hard by bad news today. The insurance company faces at $100 million gender bias suit. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was plagued with bad news as…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) has released its 2010 annual report. While there are plenty of Buffett-isms in there for some mild financial entertainment, there are some clues that investors need to…
In June of 2008, documents and e-mails from Countrywide Financial Corp., now part of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), revealed that some mortgage borrowers had more than just a solid credit…
Douglas A. McIntyre The BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers comes out once a month. The February reports says that institutional money managers are more bullish about equities than at any time since the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Jon OggBulls don’t really like it when Everyone is bullish. It all boils down to the herd mentality and looking for key contrarian indicators. If this holds true, then the bulls better…
Jon C. Ogg Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 31, 2010. That makes these his new 2011 holdings and there…
“Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg failed to reign-in Wall Street pay practices, according to a Congressional Oversight Panel report entitled “Executive Compensation Restrictions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program.” The panel did not…
