The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
There are rumors that Skype, the Voice over Internet Protocol service, and social network Facebook may join forces. Each has hundreds of millions of members. In Facebook’s case, the number is over…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Short sellers increased their positions in a number of telecom and tech stocks. Shares sold short in AT&T (NYSE: T) rose 14% to 58.2 million. The short interest in Verizon (NYSE: VZ)…
Reuters: Petrobras raised $70 billion in the largest stock offer in history. Reuters: There will likely be no tax cut before the election, according to Democrats Reuters: Obama asked the Chinese premier…
Larry Summers is gone now. His two years of duty as the head of the National Economic Council are over. He will return to Harvard, where he was once kicked out as…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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…
Updated throughout the day. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will name the head of its wireless unit as the parent’s president and chief operating officer (WSJ) India will ask cellular providers in the nation…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) says its $20 billion escrow has paid out 19,000 claims which total $240 million. Reuters: The US said that BP has “killed” the leaking well. Reuters: Bank…
Sometimes a win for a supplier is not always a win for a carrier in the world of telecommunications. UBS has a mixed research report that is upping Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
Reuters: China has approached a Canadian fund about a rival bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: The cost of Gulf clean-up hit $8 billion. Reuters: China said that its $2.45 trillion currency…
The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, has published its 17th annual survey of CEO compensation, noting, among other things, that CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off…
(DD, MCD, BA, CAT, KFT, AA, HPQ, MSFT, BAC, CSCO, VZ, T, IBM, CVX, TRV, KO, PG, MRK) For the calendar year through August 30th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down…
What happens when Dow Jones Industrial Average components have dividend yields on the common stocks that are above the yield of the 10-year Treasury Note or even the 30-Year Treasury Long Bond? …
