24/7 Wall St. asked CoreBrand to identify America’s hottest brands. We wanted to know the biggest brands that were the best known and most well regarded. Read: America’s Hottest Brands Generally, most…
Over the past 12 months, the best performing car maker stock is — drum roll — Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). Shares in the maker of electric vehicles (EVs) are up more…
The luxury car market around the world continues to explode as the relatively small portion of the globe’s population which is rich consumer at extraordinary levels. VW reports that its goal to…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) said it would finally turn around is prospects and make money in the next year. Bumbling CEO Sir Howard Stringer is gone. Sony’s core problems are not. It is still…
The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower again this morning as investors consider Greece’s commitment to the austerity measures it had previously agreed to. Renegotiating the deal seems out of the…
After a three-year period in which Toyota (NYSE: TM) recalled more than eight million cars worldwide for problems that included faulty accelerators, as well as natural disasters in Japan and Thailand that…
Coalition talks in Greece are unlikely to create a new government, raising the chance Greece could leave the eurozone. (Reuters) GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) will launch a takeover of Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ:…
The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower this morning as weak performance in the European markets as traders try to figure out what last weekend’s elections mean. Crude oil was also…
The government of Spain got lucky. It planned to raise over 2 billion euros in debt. The amount sold was more than that — 2.5 billion. The international capital markets ignored Spain’s…
April car sales data are out, and they are not cause for celebration. Though sales are up 2% overall from last April, they have cooled somewhat since the February and March run. There…
The improbable recovery of Chrysler continues, just three years after a government supported Chapter 11. Most analysts believed that Chrysler would never have the funds to launch enough new vehicles to compete…
There are rumors that the Facebook “roadshow” to present the company’s prospects to investors will begin this week and that the initial public offering of the social network will come before month’s…
Moody’s warns that Japan’s finances will be hurt if it cannot get acceptance of a new sales tax. (Reuters) New Chinese factory data indicate that the industry’s activity may have bottomed. (Reuters)…
Toyota (NYSE: TM) has finally started its US sales comeback, after over a year of shocking volume drops due mostly to the Japanese earthquake and low supplies of parts. The sales levels…
Douglas A. McIntyre Higher revenues and profits in its North American region boosted first-quarter results at Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F). The company posted EPS of $0.18, well above the consensus estimate of $0.08, on…
