NYT: NY Attorney General is investigating eight banks for allegedly providing misleading information about mortgage instruments to rating agencies: The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), Morgan Stanley(NYSE: MS), Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB),…
Short sellers are making large bets that tech shares have reached their high point and are likely to sell off based on data from the NASDAQ and NYSE as of April 30.…
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…
Many investors chase famous and well-known portfolio managers’ newest stock picks. After all, if you can piggyback on Warren Buffett, Bruce Berkowitz, and others… why not? Morningstar has shown some of its…
Reuters: UAL (NASDAQ: UAUA) and Continental’s (NYSE: DAL) boards approved a merger. Reuters: Investors are concerned about the Greek rescue package. Reuters: Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) defended Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS)…
Short-sellers walked away from Citigroup (NYSE: C),dropping their position by 20% in the period that ended May 15. They could not have anticipated that the Treasury would sell a huge amount of its…
Reuters: A new panel to address the budget deficit will start work. Reuters: A lawyer for Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) said it is not an “evil empire.” Reuters: The euro slipped…
Imagine the government and taxpayers finally being out of AIG… Who doesn’t love to hate AIG? The financial crisis and the bailouts might have been much different had American International Group, Inc.…
In a year in which many financial institutions gasped for air, the Federal Reserve transferred $47.3 billion to the Treasury – its “profit” in a sense. The Fed’s comprehensive income, the difference…
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…
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), in the shadow of an SEC investigation, beat earnings estimates handily. It was not a surprise after Citgroup Inc. (NYSE:C), Bank of Americ (NYSE: BAC), and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM)…
Reuters: Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) password operation was hit by cyberattacks. Reuters: A leading political party in Germany is urging that the nation not deal with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS). Reuters: …
In terms of financial performance of their respective firms, Vikram Pandit the CEO of Citigoup Inc (NYSE: C) has been a goat for the last two years and Lloyd Blankfein has been a hero. Today, the…
These are this Monday’s top day trader and active trader alerts. We have links with more detail on the move, the relative data, and the news summaries to each story at VSInvestor.com:…
This weekend’s edition of the Unusual Suspects would have probably been all about earnings, earnings, earnings. Friday’s SEC-Goldman news changed that. Our cast of characters for this coming week’s Unusual Suspects include…
