AT&T (NYSE: T) sold 200,000 Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S smartphones in the first 12 hours it was available (Reuters) Fitch cut its ratings of Spain and Italy (Reuters) Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S)…
They’re Here! Next week will launch the corporate earnings season for the third quarter. The media is going to tell you that this is the most important earnings season in quite some…
Tim Geithner is probably tired of having to come to the rescue of financial firms, which are all some part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Yet that is what he did…
At times it seems that highly paid CEOs live in another universe that is barely related to the world the rest of us inhabit. And the CEOs of the largest US banks…
Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), dead at 56. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may make a bid for Yahoo! (Reuters) Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) to sell the iPhone with an unlimited data…
Are the Wall Street bankers, traders, and brokers really starting to do the right thing when it comes to controlled greed and compensation? If you ask the poor Wall Street protesters, probably…
AMRSome companies that are rumored to file for Chapter 11 do not. That appears to be the case with Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) and AMR (NYSE: AMR), parent of American Airlines. But…
AMRAMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) is in trouble. That is at least what the rumor mill is trying to signal. What may seem like aggressive reporting over the weekend has added fuel to the…
The only way to fix the U.S. economy may be massive debt reductions for individuals and governments. (Reuters) Greece misses GDP targets. (Reuters) Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) buys mobile navigation company Telmap. (Reuters)…
For several years, investing in large alt energy projects depended on large commercial banks being able to profit from the tax equity generated by a project’s developer. That investment strategy began to…
The federal government begins to probe the accounting of several Chinese companies. (Reuters) EU markets to decline more this quarter than in any other since 2008. (Reuters) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC)…
Despite the debacle with a $535 million loan guarantee to now-bankrupt Solyndra, the US Department of Energy is pressing ahead with loan guarantees to solar projects ahead of tomorrow’s deadline. Two guarantees…
CNNMoney: First-time unemployment claims tumble to 391,000, down 37,000 in the latest week — the lowest level since April, government says. CNNMoney: U.S. economy grows at 1.3% annual rate in second quarter,…
Douglas A. McIntyre IPOs of Citic Securities and Great Wall Motor struggle, a sign that offerings from China are in trouble. (Reuters) The unresolved Greece problem continues to damage markets. (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of the Inspector General reports that Freddie Mac made a poor deal when it settled claims about bonds sold to it by Bank of America (NYSE:…
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