Eurozone officials set final terms for a bailout of Spain’s banks. (Reuters) Marissa Mayer will receive as much as $70 million to head Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters) Banks hit by the Libor investigation may…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) appoints Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Marissa Mayer as CEO. (Reuters) A Senate report says that HSBC (NYSE: HBC) handled Iran and drug cartel funds. (Reuters) Many investors do not like Google’s move…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following some lackluster data on the US economy. The Empire State manufacturing data improved, but retail sales posted an unexpected decline (our…
So far, Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is getting a favorable reaction to its second-quarter earnings report. The international banking giant’s earnings came in ahead of Wall St. consensus targets from Thomson Reuters,…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following the release of Chinese GDP and other data. The Middle Kingdom’s GDP grew at a rate of 7.6% in the second…
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) has managed to beat earnings but it is obviously going to be in second place after J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The bank still…
This Friday is going to mark a key earnings day when we get earnings from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). These two earnings…
The now-former CEO of Barclays plc (NYSE: BCS), Robert Diamond, has given up his claim on $31 million in stock bonuses after being forced to resign following the scandal over the bank’s…
A consortium led by Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) has received US Federal Trade Commission approval to acquire the music publishing arm of EMI from Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C). Citigroup acquired the business…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is weak this morning on word that the bank’s trading losses will be much wider than originally reported. The market knew that the loss would…
courtesy Facebook Inc.This week marks the end of the Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) analyst quiet period for those many brokerage firms which have analysts who will finally be free to initiate coverage…
Moody’s recent downgrade of 15 of the world’s largest banks, along with JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s (NYSE: JPM) multibillion trading loss, make it clear that certain big banks are just not…
Many analysts said that the Moody’s downgrade of banks reflected circumstances that the capital markers already realized. The downgrades, therefore, were largely useless. But the reaction to the rating changes by Moody’s…
Add one more piece of pessimistic news to that coming from economic research firms in Europe. The Ifo Institute issued its latest data on Germany: The Ifo Business Climate Index for industry and trade…
The heads of Germany, France, Spain and Italy meet to seek a solution to the financial crisis in the eurozone. (Reuters) A “bug” interrupts Twitter service twice. (Reuters) Moody’s downgrades 15 banks,…
