Harman International (HAR) said that Goldman Sachs (GS) and KKR have walked away from an $8 billion private equity deal to buy the company. The buy-out interests say that Harman had undergone…
Douglas A. McIntyre There was no clear direction in the change in NYSE short interest on the major bulge bracket brokerage firms. If you look at the earnings this week, Goldman Sachs seems to have…
According to Retuers, Alan Greenspan says that housing price will fall much further due to oversupply. Reuters writes that the UAW and GM (GM) will begin bagaining again on Friday. Reuters reports…
Last night we put out an alert where traders were clearly making a bet that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) was going to be an earnings winner compared to its smaller and more troubled…
Douglas A. McIntyre On Thursday, September 20, we get the dual reports from Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC) and from Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS): Bear Stearns is expected to post $1.78 EPS on $1.65 Billion in revenues. On…
According to Reuters, Google (GOOG) will begin to test a new interactive ad service that will allow marketers to measure user respone on creative unites using video and images. The Wall Street…
We reviewed our different portfolios of key stocks to see which ones performed the best today, and it wasn’t just the financials as a general class. At the end of the day,…
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH) has just reported net income of $887 million, or $1.54 per common share (diluted), for the third quarter ended August 31, 2007. This does represent a…
The problem with being super-smart is that when you become dumb it is more obvious. The Goldman Sachs (GS) Global Alpha fund, pride of the bank and the hedge fund industry, is…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Intel (INTC) received antitrust charges from a branch of the South Korean government. Reuters writes that Campbell (CPB) is seeking over $1 billion for its Godiva chocolate business. Reuters…
Next week is the highly awaited FOMC meeting and the expected decision next Tuesday is certainly that a rate cut is coming. But the predicament bet is mixed, with some looking for…
Some people love Jim Cramer, and some people just love to bash him. Some try to run percentage gains that he would be up or down at any given moment. Some revere…
Stocks Tickers: MCO, MHP, XLF, GS, MS, MER, LEH, BSC, C, BAC, JPM, WFC, WB You will have to have a subscription in order to access the full article, but Moody’s has…
These intra-meeting cuts like the 50-basis point discount rate cut this morning, even if this one is the discount rate rather than the funds rate, do act as stabilizers and you are…
(BEAS) BEA Systems trading up 6% pre-market on 3 upgrades: Raised to Buy at B of A; raised to Buy at UBS; raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.(BX) Blackstone earned posted revenues…
