Several senior JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) executives will leave the bank in the wake of its $2 billion trading loss. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ex-CEO Scott Thompson has thyroid cancer. (WSJ) Greece will…
The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) super-hero movie “The Avengers” was the top grossing movie at the US box office this weekend. The same was true in many other countries. Estimates are that…
Douglas A. McIntyre A great deal of the discussion about Walt Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) unexpectedly strong earnings revolved around the fact that movie bomb “John Carter” had not crippled overall earnings per share. And the markets looked…
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) closed up ahead of earnings on Tuesday and the reaction is following the same trend in the after-hours session. Earnings came in at $0.58 EPS $9.629 billion…
Jon C. Ogg The line between mobile wireless carriers and cable and satellite TV providers has been blurring for a couple of years and may be on the way to disappearing entirely before too long.…
The GAO says the government could make $15.1 billion on its AIG (NYSE: AIG) bailout investment. (Reuters) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins the company’s IPO road show. (Reuters) Comscore says people spent…
The major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following a weekend of elections in Europe. A new Socialist party president in France and a still very cloudy future in Greece have…
Voters in Greece and France turn away from German austerity measures set for the region’s weakest nations. (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) moves into the home monitoring market. (Reuters) Ally Financial falls back…
24/7 Wall St. often looks at the key earnings reports scheduled for the week ahead. We have the bulk of the S&P 500 earnings behind us and we are now starting to…
Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced that it plans to expand its offerings of original programming to include comedy shows and kids programming, in addition to its existing 15 shows…
S&P downgrades Spain and presses for EU action on debt. (Reuters) The U.S. economy slows as inventories fall. (Reuters) The Bank of Japan increases yen purchases to 10 trillion. (Reuters) U.S. companies…
Among the more developed countries of Asia — China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan — the top global brand is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in three and trails only a local brand…
AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) will soon make advertisers an offer it hopes they can’t refuse. The company will give advertisers the opportunity to buy online advertising using the same model currently used…
Major media cannot agree on something as simple and critical as what the highest paid CEOs in America made last year. Most of the data come from proxies filed with the SEC.…
Markets opened lower this morning on the first trading day in the US following last week’s poor report on non-farm payrolls. Higher-than-expected inflation in China also caused led some observers to suggest…
