The federal district judge handling the Bank of America (BAC) deal with the SEC to settle charges that the financial firm improperly disclosed the timing of bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: The Congressional Oversight Panel said the Treasury should do more to get toxic assets off bank balance sheets. Reuters: A federal judge still refuses to sign off on an SEC deal…
New data from Millward Brown, the brand evaluation firm, shows that Google (GOOG) is the world’s most valuable brand with a valuation of just over $100 billion. That is well above the…
Bank of America (BAC) announced that it would buy Merrill Lynch for $50 billion on September 15 of last year. It was one of the largest M&A transactions in the American banking…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: A college education no longer means easy employment in China. Reuters: Fannie Mae (FNM) lost $14.8 billion. Reuters: The auto “clunkers” legislation passed the Senate. Reuters: Obama is in no rush…
These are this morning’s top day trader and most active alert featured stocks. There is more detailed price and volume analysis on links for each stock over to VSInvestor.com: Bank of America…
Almost the entire fight to save the American financial system and punish those responsible for it has gone on in the executive and legislative branches. The third leg of the government, the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: A bubble may be forming in the corporate bond market. Reuters: Wall St. firms have made $1 billion on the break up of AIG (AIG). Morgan Stanley(MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), JP…
Reuters: A plan for universal healthcare in China could cut the savings rate. Reuters: Bank regulators are opposing the Obama shake-up of the system. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) settled SEC charges…
The stock price of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) hit $100,000 today, up from a 52-week low of $70,000, but still well off its period high of $147,000. Berkshire’s chief Warren Buffett has made…
Bank of America (BAC) got off with a $33 million fine “to settle charges that it made false and misleading statements” about bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch employees. The case what brought…
Douglas A. McIntyre We recently gave a list of companies which we thought Warren Buffett might want to consider selling or lightening up on after Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) disclosed that it had finally…
Andrew Cuomo, who is running for governor of New York State without having announced it, is denouncing Wall St. because of its big pay packages while in his current role as state…
Analysts have hoped that the rate at which Americans become unemployed will slow in the second half of 2009. There has been some evidence that the period in which the economy would lose…
Reuters: The recession has badly hurt investments in green technologies. Reuters: Obama called for deeper China ties with the US. Reuters: BP’s (BP) profits fell sharply. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) will…
