Reuters: Jobs data continues to push global equities up. Reuters: Daimler will increase its dividend Reuters: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will release a new line of smartphones Reuters: Craigslist will block access to…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) disclosed that its costs to clean-up the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe have risen above $8 billion, and the company still has to fund a $20 billion escrow account to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: China has approached a Canadian fund about a rival bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: The cost of Gulf clean-up hit $8 billion. Reuters: China said that its $2.45 trillion currency…
Updated throughout the day. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will buy Skype (TechCrunch) BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) internal report on Deepwater Horizon blames some of its own engineers (FT). India is about to decide…
In early June, an irate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal fired off a letter to the White House warning that as many as 20,000 jobs would be lost over the next 12 to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Australian mining giant BHP Billiton plc (NYSE:BHP) reported full fiscal year 2010 earnings today of $12.72 billion, more than double the $5.9 billion the company earned in 2009. BHP also reduced its…
What is the easiest way to drive down a price without stopping orders? Telling suppliers that you may have to cut orders in the months ahead. There are many things that affect…
Employees of BP plc (NYSE: BP) said that they had found 360 problems related to overdue maintenance on the Deepwater Horizon rig, according to an investigation by the US Coast Guard and…
Reuters: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is likely to show strong profits as it continues its quest to buy Potash (NYSE: POT). Reuters: Chrysler will have a hard time turning a profit this…
Reuters: Kenneth Feinberg took over the BP plc $20 billion escrow account. Reuters: Americans are confused about healthcare reform according to a new poll Reuters: Sinochem approached Potash (NYSE: POT) about countering…
There are many issues to watch in the coming week for this weekend’s edition of THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS. We have some earnings on deck and some unfinished business from last week, but…
Reuters: Korean National Oil made a bid for UK firm Dana Petroleum Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) shares dropped on concern about a tech slowdown. Reuters: Potash (NYSE: POT)…
Reuters: There do not appear to be any bids to rival BHP Billiton’s (NYSE: BHP) for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: A US government agency is considering more self-regulation for oil Reuters: GM…
Carl Icahn is known for many things, particularly when it comes to shaking companies up. A theme throughout Icahn’s newest holdings as of June 30 was an increase in the energy sector. …
The governor of Texas and the state’s Land Commissioner have filed suit in federal court in Houston that would block the second attempt by the federal government to impose a six-month ban…
