We have a very busy week ahead for equity investors, even outside of earnings season. This coming week’s key events, what we call The Unusual Suspects, is non-earnings related and includes the…
The drop in commodities may help rally the dollar (Reuters) The moderating growth of jobs claims is seen as a threat to the recovery (Reuters) A sharp drop in commodities prices hurt…
The Flame Index started as a research tool in 2008 at the NY Innovation Design Lab (nyidlab). It was used as a general metric to evaluate companies and their risk in the…
Howard Stinger, Sony’s current CEO, is 69 and most analysts expected him to step down in the next year. The hack of the PlayStation Network, which has happened not once but twice…
The press reaction to Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) latest news about another hack of its PlayStation network is predictable. How could it happen again? Sony just disclosed that 77 million of its customers’…
Douglas A. McIntyre The death of Osama bin Laden raised US futures and the dollar and pushed crude oil lower. (Reuters) The US helped cut the amount of oil China imported from Iran to punish…
A great deal of the most harsh business press is related to Warren Buffett companies and the Sokol insider trading scandal. The puts Berkshire Hathaway and Lubrizol on the list Allergan received…
Many experts believe the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates near zero until the end of the year (Reuters) Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) says Sokol deceived the company and may have violated…
Updated throughout the day. The White House may pick an associate of Wall St. critic Elizabeth Warren to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Reuters) News Corp (NYSE: NWS) will try to…
The breach of the Sony PlayStation Network which exposed private records of up to 77 million customers is only one in a long line of failures which have occurred since Sir Howard…
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will buy Synthes for $21.9 billion (Reuters) S&P cut the Japan sovereign rating outlook because of the earthquake (Reuters) The Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation network was hacked…
Things have gone from bad to worse at Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE). Whether you spell “PWN” as “Powned” or not, Sony and its millions of PlayStation network users just got powned! The…
Jon C. Ogg 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…
A review of data from the damaged Southwest Air (NYSE: LUV) 737 raised questions about Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) manufacturing process. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) has begun to market a tablet PC. (Reuters)…
Update throughout the day. The US Treasury may sell its shares in GM (NYSE: GM) soon (WSJ) Vendanta Resources bought 11% of Cairn India (Reuters) Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) will license part of…
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