Experts at Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) believe that France and Germany will slip into recession. That would seal the fate of Greece more than all the battles and maneuvers among powers at…
Douglas A. McIntyre World stock markets hit 15-month lows. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to launch the iPhone 5 as competition grows from Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android. (Reuters) China warns of a trade war if Congress…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has hired Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to defend it from activist shareholders. Updated throughout the day Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch the new…
Updated throughout the day. Acer will use problems at Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) PC division to add customers (Reuters) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is prepared to make deep budget and personnel cuts (NYT)…
World stocks rise on the hope that the eurozone will address its financial problems. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares fall because of rumors that iPad production is low. (Reuters) Warren Buffett’s Berkshire…
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
Europe begins to more aggressively look for problems to its debt crisis as pressure from the rest of the world grows. (Reuters) Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new tablet PC may be a serious…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhether it’s the latest effort by the Federal Reserve to pump some liquidity into the US economy or it’s the IMF’s statement that Europe’s banks need another $440…
“Never apologize. It’s a sign of weakness” — John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) CEOs are rarely in the business of apologizing. They leave the…
When companies announce that they are going to lay off thousands of employees, it shouldn’t be any surprise that employee morale drops like a stone. So why do they do it other…
Geithner to discuss a bank bailout fund with EU ministers. (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) results are well below expectations. (Reuters) Several central banks to offer dollars to keep liquidity strong…
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has just released a “leadership transition” at the company. John Mack, known formerly as ‘Mack the Knife,” is stepping down as Morgan Stanley’s Chairman and is retiring at…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is making good on a promise it made earlier this year: it is paying back Warren Buffett. An SEC filing after the closing bell shows that GE…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: MTGE) Started as Hold…
Major banks and brokerage firms do not cover their own banks, for obvious reasons of conflicts of interest. They do, however, cover their peers and rivals. Many investors believe that the banks…
