Congress is fighting with both the administration that is leaving and the one that is coming about what should happen to the $350 billion left in the TARP. Most legislators do not…
According to Reuters, Steve Jobs will take a medical leave from Apple (AAPL) until June 30. Reuters reports that Bank of America (BAC) is in discussions with the government to get billions…
The conventional wisdom was that 2008 would be the worst year for bank losses in years, but that it would be the bottom. The damage of mortgage-backed securities has moved into the…
If a world where corporate earnings are completely predictable is a "10" and a world where they cannot be predicted at all is a "1", most of the last several years have…
The Wall Street Journal has made a great deal of the fact that six big company CEOs have been sacked in the last eight days. Chief executives are fired all the time,…
For the latest reported period, ending December 31, short sellers did not make any notable moves in or out of tech, financials, or industrial shares. What they did do was take impressively…
Oppenheimer’s star banking analyst Meredith Whitney slammed the banking giants yet again this morning. The difference between today’s note and her prior criticisms, is that now she expects that many banks will…
Yesterday, Bank of America (BAC) said it would miss its 2008 numbers. There has been a good deal of talk that Jamie Dimon will be pulled off his thrown at JPMorgan (JPM)…
According to Reuters, Alcoa (AA) will fire more than 13,000 people. Reuters reports that Apple (AAPL) disappointed with no Jobs or big announcements at Macworld. Reuters reports that GM (GM) says government…
The Wall Street Journal has gotten a hold of some internal documents from Bank of America (BAC) which say that CEO Kenneth Lewis and his top people will not take bonuses. There…
Douglas A. McIntyre Down in Washington, a bunch of Congressmen who lost their jobs and bunch of others taking lobbying money under the table for a piece of the bailout fund, are drawing and quartering…
It looks like we have our most likely candidates for the "Dogs of the Dow" for 2009. This is often misunderstood as an investment vehicle. These are the 10 highest dividend-yielding stocks…
At some point all stocks get too cheap. Enron go too cheap. So did Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). The next round of company shares that appear to be bargains…
The Dogs of the Dow are often misunderstood as an investment vehicle. These are technically the 10 highest dividend-yielding stocks out of the 30 DJIA components. The formal list of the ten…
If investors had a notion that short sellers were going to stay in big financials, they were wrong. Short interest in the weakest companies in the sector dropped. Shares short in Citigroup…