Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) said ailing CEO Benmosche will remain through 2012. (Reuters) The Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee has referred several cases of potential law violations from the credit crisis to authorities inside…
Earnings season is in full swing and we have a back-breaker of an earnings week ahead of us. There are some 11 DJIA components reporting earnings and a whole slew of other…
Earnings season is in full swing and we have at least 11 of the 30 DJIA components on deck to report earnings. We have given basic previews broken out by day for…
Many investors find no better teacher than Warren Buffett. His place as one of the world’s wealthiest men speaks for itself thanks to the almost unimaginable gains seen by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.…
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Buy and raised target to $198 at BofA/ML. American…
We have already introduced the 2011 Dogs of the Dow for investors looking into 2011. The term “dogs” might imply that they are the worst performers when they are actually just the…
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…
Last-minute shoppers plan to be out in force this holiday season. A survey of shoppers by American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP). The survey indicates that 84% of shoppers haven’t finished yet and…
Douglas A. McIntyre In an interview with The Financial Times, American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault called for the formation of task force among business and political leaders to tackle the unemployment…
Douglas A. McIntyre AOL (NYSE: AOL) may break itself into pieces in preparation for a potential merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ YHOO). (Reuters) Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told “60 Minutes” that the central…
Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That’s ironic given how little he seems to care about…
These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. CME Group Inc.(NYSE: CME)…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2010. This list appears to have many more changes than…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Raised to Buy at Argus. Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML)…
