The Fed made hundreds of billions of dollars in short term loans to banks. It was necessary, in the opinion of the agency, to do that to preserve the financial system as…
Fidelity Management & Research Company, or FMR, was among the giants which released its quarterly holdings over the most recent days. While it is always interesting to see which holdings are the…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has shown its Q2-2009 holdings as of June 30, 2009. There are some portfolio changes that have been seen here from the end of Q1 and we…
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is trading higher this morning on an analyst upgrade. This would probably be a much more important call had financials not run so much. Bank of America Merrill…
Reuters: The Chinese are learning the problem of easy access to credit cards. Reuters: The US recovery is still slow while France and Germany are rebounding. Reuters: UBS (UBS) clients in America…
Reuters: Wal-Mart (WMT) will report results with Wall St. looking for sales growth. Reuters: US home foreclosures set a record in July. Reuters: Citigroup (C) hired outsiders to help with a management…
John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks. Yet his new filing shows a…
Several companies run annual brand valuations. It is a good business for advertising and marketing firms to be viewed as experts on brands. Brand values are based on the cash flow they…
What happens when a sector loses a key bull, even if it is temporary? Often nothing, but if it is a big enough market pundit then it can have an impact. That…
The federal district judge handling the Bank of America (BAC) deal with the SEC to settle charges that the financial firm improperly disclosed the timing of bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: The Congressional Oversight Panel said the Treasury should do more to get toxic assets off bank balance sheets. Reuters: A federal judge still refuses to sign off on an SEC deal…
New data from Millward Brown, the brand evaluation firm, shows that Google (GOOG) is the world’s most valuable brand with a valuation of just over $100 billion. That is well above the…
Bank of America (BAC) announced that it would buy Merrill Lynch for $50 billion on September 15 of last year. It was one of the largest M&A transactions in the American banking…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: A college education no longer means easy employment in China. Reuters: Fannie Mae (FNM) lost $14.8 billion. Reuters: The auto “clunkers” legislation passed the Senate. Reuters: Obama is in no rush…
These are this morning’s top day trader and most active alert featured stocks. There is more detailed price and volume analysis on links for each stock over to VSInvestor.com: Bank of America…