Updated throughout the day. Updated 2.15 PM: Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) may buy social game business Playfish for $250 million. (Business Insider) Updated 1:40 PM EST: CKX Inc. (NASDAQ: CKXE) refuting reports that…
Reuters: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is having trouble justifying its huge bonuses. Reuters: Bruce Wasserstein, M&A giant and head of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ), died. Reuters: Congress will probe compensation at AIG (NYSE:AIG). Reuters: US…
Reuters: Aggressive trading in gold in China may be pushing the price of the metal up. Reuters: Blackstone’s (NYSE:BX) CEO says the worst of the crisis is over. Reuters: The House has…
This week is the week we have 6 DJIA components reporting earnings as the first real week of earnings season, but the big financial stocks reporting will set the tone for how…
These are this morning’s top day trader alert stocks. We have more detailed price and volume analysis on each stock link over at VSInvestor.com: CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is getting crushed…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is on deck for earnings this week. Its earnings news may have just been derailed by a key influential analyst call. Meredith Whitney, now with Meredith…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.39 PM EST: Charles G. Ward, III, a senior executive at Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) will be named interim CEO at the company pending the recovery of Bruce Wasserstein. (various)…
Its fiscal year coming to an end, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is about to post record annual profits less than a year after the peak of the credit crisis. It is as if…
We may have had earnings season officially start with Alcoa this week, but next week will be the real week for the launch of earnings season. We now have an index to…
Reuters: Chinese investors are holding a large amount of gold. Reuters: Bernanke sees tighter policies as the economy improves. Reuters: The Congressional Oversight Panel says that the US plan to help homeowners…
These are this Thursday morning’s top 10 Wall Street research calls we have seen in the land of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Outperform at RW Baird.…
We are seeing a very mixed picture among the analyst calls this morning over banks and financial stocks. We are seeing some very positive “BUY” calls and we are also seeing some…
Reuters: The pay czar plans to rework employee pay at large banks. Reuters: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) may enter the tech M&A frenzy. Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) says some Hotmail passwords were exposed. Reuters: The…
Some times it seems like Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has a single-sided coin that always comes up heads. Documents recently released show that if CIT (CIT) fails, Goldman get $1 billion of money…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: A bear market could kill the extraordinary rally in corporate bonds. Reuters: Treasury will announce three more funds are buying toxic assets. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) will select an emergency…
