The U.S. and state attorneys general reach a $25 billion settlement with five banks over mortgage abuses. (Reuters) The Hong Kong division of Alibaba may go private as part of a refinancing…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) has purchased $6.2 billion (face value) worth of American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) subprime mortgage bonds from the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The bonds…
Five big banks have been invited by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to bid on a stack of subprime paper with an unpaid prinicipal balance of $6 billion that was…
Glencore and Xtrata agree to a $90 billion merger. (Reuters) Greek leaders face a deal for settling sovereign debt matters as workers strike. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) posts good third-quarter profits and…
The 24,000 employees of Barclays plc (NYSE: BCS) can look forward to an announcement next week that they will be getting a cut of 25%-30% in the compensation this year. That’s not…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) founder and former CEO Jerry Yang leaves the company’s board. (Reuters) The World Bank sharply cuts global growth forecasts. (Reuters) Greece and private creditors race to settle on a…
Zynga posts at the high end of its IPO range and will raise $1 billion. (Reuters) Congress reaches a tentative deal to keep the government open. (Reuters) Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total Return Fund…
Sarkozy and Merkel have gone from killers of the markets to saviors of the market, and oddly enough there is no full resolution yet to the Euro Zone debt crisis other than…
Corporations can spend hundreds of million dollars just so they can put their name on a major league sports stadiums. 24/7 Wall St. looked that the 13 largest stadium-naming rights deals and…
The details of the S&P bank sector downgrade were due to ratings criteria changes in the banking sector. 24/7 Wall St. has a detailed downgrade of the banking sector and the CreditWatch…
These are some of Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started…
To say that MF Global Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: MF) is in trouble might be the understatement of the year. The commodities and derivatives broker has reportedly been caught on the wrong side…
Demand for gold as a safe haven has driven demand for more places to store that gold. And it’s getting harder more difficult to find that storage, resulting in a boom of…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Active Power Inc. (NASDAQ: ACPW) Started as Buy at Merriman.…
News (and more rumors) out of Europe and a Morgan Stanley downgrade of global growth are acting to attack the markets this morning. Back on the rack… We have many movers and…
