BP plc (NYSE: BP) will benefit from a law passed after the Exxon Valdez incident which capped the liability for oil spills at $75 million. BP says it will still bear the costs…
Reuters:  Calm water is helping manage the Gulf oil spill. Reuters:  April retail sales should be up in a sign of consumer recovery. Reuters:  The US is questioning Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:…
There are many pre-market movers this morning, and most are still from earnings but not all… Those on the move this morning include Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH), BHP Billiton Ltd.…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for May 4, 2010. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
Reuters:Â Â The Senate will begin to vote on the financial reform bill. Reuters:Â Â Regulators are considering an antitrust case against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reuters:Â Â Tensions between Germany and France over the Greek…
We have many after-hours movers. Some are earnings related, and some are not. Movers in the after-hours session include Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH), BP plc (NYSE: BP), Federal Signal Corporation…
The crude oil leak caused by the explosion and sinking of BP plc’s (NYSE:BP) Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible rig continues to pump about 5,000 b/d into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts. We have a link to more detail and analysis on each where applicable at VSInvestor.com: Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) is…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Oil trades up near $87 today, and it is bound to move toward $100 this month. The estimates for the Deepwater Horizon incident now range as high as 100,000 barrels a day…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Wall St. estimates of the cost of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill catastrophe are these: Analysts at Morgan Stanley put the figure at $3.5 billion, while analysts at Citigroup, Evolution Securities…
Douglas A. McIntyre Experts attempting to slow the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig collapse may have found a way to slow the pace at which oil reaches the surface of the Gulf…
Next week is still a deep earnings week, but we tried and tried to keep this weekend’s edition of The Unusual Suspects as free and clear from earnings as we could. There…
Partners TransCanada Corp. (NYSE:TRP) and Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) have announced the beginning of a three-month open season for capacity on the proposed Alaska Pipeline. The pipeline, if its built, would carry…
David Axelrod, an adviser to President Obama, said this morning that no new drilling offshore of the US will be authorized until the cause of the explosion and 5,000-b/d leak from the…
