Reuters: Romer left her job as a top Obama economic adviser. Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) has cemented its leak in advance of a permanent plug. Reuters: Saudi Arabia continued talks with…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for August 5, 2010. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
Reuters: Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) has objected to giving the government advanced notice of its dealings with oil companies on major projects. Reuters: Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will take on Facebook with a…
After watching and looking through the EU Stress Test that was due today, we are so far seeing a rally in all the banks we had mentioned earlier as banks to watch. …
The E.U. bank stress tests are due at 12:00 PM EST today, an interesting time considering that the U.S. will be the only active market. Many of the top banks are lower…
These are some of the top analyst research calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms this Thursday morning: AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Outperform at KBW. AmeriCredit…
Restructuring never ends in many large corporations. After a week’s worth of reading through dozens of corporate deals in the pipeline and analyzing others which could be close, it seems that many…
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Barclays plc…
Updated throughout the day. CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) ABC may be sold (NYPost). Barclay’s (NYSE: BCS) Private Equity may be spun out. (Reuters) John Hyman, formerly of Morgan Stanly…
A 404-point move up in the DJIA and a near 49-point run in the S&P 500 sounds massive at 3.9% and 4.4% respectively. When you look at the international markets, particularly some…
Reuters: China will send an envoy to the US to discuss the yuan. Reuters: European carriers who lost money on the Apple (AAPL) iPhone won’t do the same in their deals to…
Reuters: The Fed is likely to keep interest rates low for some time. Reuters: China said the yuan in not behind the US trade gap. Reuters: A record number of Chinese are…
Reuters: Democrats may miss their goal to vote on healthcare reform. Reuters: China exports rose 46% in February. Reuters: China’s Geely raised money to buy Volvo. Reuters: Strong Chinese trade data made…
Greece has decided to raise three billion to five billion euros through a 10-year bond. The country has hired several banks including Barclays (BCS) and HSBC (HBC) to handle the transaction. The bonds have…
Douglas A. McIntyre Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose 2.7% to 10,309. The Hang Seng was up 1.2% to 20,518. Shanghai was closed. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was up .6%…
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