Two different reports from analysts in the agriculture and fertilizer segment have the global growth and the “move to two meals a day for the emerging world” arguments a bit under fire…
Of the 76 companies included in the S&P 500 index that have reported earnings through last week, 55% have beat expectations according to S&P Capital IQ consensus estimates. The largest year-over-year growth…
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is being downgraded in a somewhat unusual call by the team at Zacks Investment Research. The old and already considered a bit cautious rating of Neutral…
Jon C. Ogg Remember those mortgage bonds the Federal Reserve bought when it bailed out American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG). Today the NY Fed sold $7.01 billion worth of the bonds to Credit Suisse…
Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) files for Chapter 11. (Reuters) Greece and its private lenders work toward a last-hour compromise on a debt exchange. (Reuters) BP (NYSE: BP) likely to set a $20…
Markets opened slightly lower in the US this morning, but picked up steam in the morning and continued to rise, if slowly, for the rest of the day. The tech sector showed…
GS.COMThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) is out with earnings this Wednesday. The investment banking giant, or the bank holding company with no real bank, managed to escape some of the…
Jon C. Ogg Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) founder and former CEO Jerry Yang leaves the company’s board. (Reuters) The World Bank sharply cuts global growth forecasts. (Reuters) Greece and private creditors race to settle on a…
We have already seen the first wave of bank earnings, but the rest of the week is full of bank and financial earnings. In fact, the real bank earnings season is all…
This shortened week is the first week full of many major companies reporting earnings season. We will have a clear direction for the financial leaders and many of the technology leaders after…
Fifteen months ago, the price of a gallon of regular gas was well below $3 a gallon, according to AAA data. It came close to the $4 level six months ago, but…
Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the 10 most…
Layoffs have surged recently. There is no telling why they happened all at about the same time. Drug giant Novartis (NYSE: NVS) said it will cut nearly 2,000 jobs. Food Lion will shut…
TPG may invest $1 billion in troubled Olympus. (Reuters) President Obama to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. (Reuters) China’s foreign currency reserves drop to $3.18 trillion,…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is about to report earnings Friday morning as the first bank and second DJIA component kicking off earnings season. We wanted to make a preview…
