Yahoo! (YHOO) Concerns about slowdown in internet advertising. Drops to $13.20 from 52-week high of $34.08. Bet they wish they had taken Microsoft (MSFT) deal. Sirius (SIRI) Merger a failure.Sells off to…
After months of suffering indignities and falling sales, Citigroup cut shares in Ford (F) and GM (GM) to sell. It dropped it price target for Ford to $2.50 and GM’s to $6.…
Physicians who spend time in emergency rooms are trained to work on the patient and separate themselves from his pain. Doctors have learned that they must diagnose and solve problems efficiently because…
Ford (F) may have cut costs to the point where the company cannot even operate properly anymore, the number of people in product development, management and marketing has gone so low. That…
As a sign of how difficult the markets are, a number of large companies hit 52-week lows, with a number of stocks down between 5% and 10% and bank shares off more…
According to Reuters, the House will vote on the bailout bill today. Reuters reports that JP Morgan (JPM) will not keep the CEO of WaMu. Reuters reports that John Thain of Merrill…
General Motors (GM) delivered 284,300 vehicles in September. Sales were down 16% from the same month last year. Car sales fell 10% to just over 118,000. Light trucks were off 19%. Cadillac did…
Ford (F) has an atrocious September. The car company reported total sales of 116,734, down 34 percent versus a year ago. Volvo sales were off over 50%. Overall Ford brand SUV sales…
Douglas A. McIntyre Detroit is getting its $25 billion in loan guarantees from the federal government. Ford (F), GM (GM), and Chrysler did not have access to enough capital to upgrade their plants without outside…
The financial system is looking for a form of what theologians call "universal salvation". What began as a simple piece of legislation to get $700 billion into the banking industry by the…
According to Reuters, Wilbur Ross say the bailout package does not address the core of problem which is mortgage payments. Reuters writes that the National Retail Federation says that this will be…
General Motors (GM) said on Friday that it will draw down $3.5 billion on the $4.5 billion line of credit it put in place with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Citigroup (C) back…
If you look at the auto stocks today, you might deduce that they are next in line for the government corporate bread lines and farm camp jobs. Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:…
After years of speculation, Porsche has become the controlling shareholder in VW. The news seems counterintuitive because VW is by far the larger company, but Porsche’s ownership dates back years to when…
According to Reuters, the federal government bailed out AIG (AIG) The Fed will loan the insurance company $85 billion for two years in exchange for a 79.9% stake. Reuters says that Barclays…
