Courtesy Boeing Co.Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is a very important company to the U.S. stock market. It is not just that Boeing is involved in our national defense and not just that…
TwitterTwitter filed papers for its initial public offering (IPO). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed the filing to be essentially secret because of rules that apply to companies with revenue of…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockEliot Spitzer’s loss in his attempt to become New York City comptroller proves that brands still matter. His brand disintegrated in about the same way as BP PLC’s (NYSE: BP) did. One or two huge…
Wikimedia CommonsChances are high that you already have heard that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is making a serious change among its 30 constituents. What you might not have heard outside of…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsWe have argued for years that the composition of the 30 components in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has needed a change. That change is here, and frankly…
Courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; photo by Chris RupertJ.C Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) continues to face unprecedented drops in traffic and sales that, to some extent, caused its largest shareholder Bill…
ThinkstockThe second-quarter earnings parade has all but come to a end. One conclusion that is painfully obvious to the equity strategy team at Credit Suisse is that many companies beat earnings only…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaJust as Steve Ballmer prepares to depart as CEO of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), the guessing game over who will take the reigns at the troubled tech…
ThinkstockThe big banks have gone to considerable lengths to mend the weaknesses that they were in before, during and after the recession. The public perception of the big banks is not very…
Wikimedia CommonsBeing an executive at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) can be no easy job at the moment. This is one of only a few large institutions that could have…
ThinkstockHighlighted in a Fortune magazine article in 1966, an obscure investment vehicle called the hedge fund was outperforming every existing mutual fund by double-digit figures. By 1968, there were some 140 hedge…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Based on a recent SEC filing by J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), William Ackman, who was until recently a board member and the firm’s largest shareholder, may be…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockIn 2012 there were 1,139 onshore and 60 offshore wells drilled in Mexico, for about $8 billion of drilling and completion (D&C) spending. This includes about $1.7 billion in offshore D&C spending.…
Wikimedia Commons After three years of powerful economic expansion prior to 2008, the Great Recession caused the revenues of many American companies to plunge to multi-year lows. While sales at most big…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has subpoenaed documents and other communications and records going back to 2010 from a metals warehousing firm. Reuters reports exclusively that “a source with direct…
