Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) this morning announced an agreement with American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) on a prepaid credit card called Bluebird that the two companies ran as a pilot program…
A court will allow Samsung to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the U.S. despite efforts by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to block it. (Reuters) Germany wants Spain to delay a request…
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) today announced an enforcement action against American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) that will cost the company $27.5 million in fines and $85 million in refunds…
Paul Ausick Market research firm BIA/Kelsey predicts that demand from U.S. consumers for online deals will boost the market to $3.6 billion by the end of this year. If so, the online deal market…
In the age of health care reform, today’s news will sound ridiculous to just about any investor. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEMKT: DIA) is making a crazy change among its 30…
Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) has managed to avoid getting crushed and its share price is actually much higher than it was before the recession. Shares are very close to an all-time…
Samsung will review 250 suppliers for labor violations. (Reuters) Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) will ask a court to review copyright damages against SAP A.G. (NYSE: SAP). (Reuters) Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is likely…
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch is making some changes to one of its key lists called the Most Attractive Buy List. The basis for the change is a key bottom or big base…
The three major US stock indexes opened somewhat higher this morning following better-than-expected data on UK retail sales and an inline reading on Eurozone CPI (more coverage here). The news out of…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co.(NYSE: ANF) cut to Underperform at…
LinkedIn Corp.’s (NYSE: LNKD) business model is supposed to be better than that of most other tech IPOs in the past year. The company has three lines of revenue: hiring solutions, marketing solutions…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings showing that there have been some significant changes in the positions of the Berkshire…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as investors continue to hope for more central bank stimulation in weakening global economy. These investors are probably right that something will…
Wednesday is going to mark yet another important day for the early wave of key earnings for this earnings season. The second quarter became more challenging for many companies as we noted…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning on reports of a new bailout for Spanish banks and a 24-basis point drop on 10-year Spanish bond yields (our coverage here).…
