Earnings season is upon us and this week will mark the beginning of the flood of earnings reports. The most important earnings we are tracking will be from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL),…
Some Senators said they would pass a currency bill to punish China on the value of the yuan just as the People’s Republic president Hu Jintao visits Obama. (Reuters) Citigroup (NYSE: C)…
The short sellers keep running for cover as the bull market continues. In the actively traded high-priced market leaders, the trend continues for less and less short selling and many of these…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS) Cut to Sell at UBS. Alcoa…
The market for Initial Public Offerings is booming. After seeing so many IPOs trade exponentially higher than expected in 2010, the market should continue to be strong in 2011. We have created…
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) will increase financial disclosure but the firm will do little else to change its business practices. (Reuters) A few economists believe the Fed could run out of…
The G20 has begun work to lower chances of a food crisis (Reuters) China is likely to tighten again (Reuters) Oil stayed above $89 due to a shutdown of the Alaska pipeline…
The craze surrounding Facebook is getting even more out of hand, this time with Wall Street setting the valuation of the company at some $50 billion. A fresh investment from Goldman Sachs…
Jon C. Ogg The research calls are running light this week with many firms still on skeleton crews. These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research…
The short sellers ran for cover yet again when it comes to the actively traded high-priced market leaders. There was hardly an exception. December 15 settlement date for the short interest was…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) may be the poster child firm for wealth and excess on Wall Street. The bonus pools around Wall Street are being tallied up, and Bloomberg has…
Facebook is the best place to work among US companies, according to employee research firm Glassdoor. The survey was based on nearly 150,000 employee reviews submitted during 2010 on companies with more than…
The new tax package made it through the first stage of Congressional approval. (Reuters) The federal government began the process of setting higher capital requirements for US banks. (Reuters) China will have…
It appears that the S&P 500 Index is set to finish 2010 at about 1,250, 12% above its reading of 1,115 on December 31, 2009. A survey of 11 strategists for big banks…
