Customers, employees, shareholders, and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. has looked at many of these issues to choose the 15 most hated companies in America. We evaluated…
The year 2009 is in the books and some of the most troubled companies of the last decade made the biggest returns among S&P 500 firms in 2009. Among S&P 500 stocks, Ford (NYSE:F), which two…
2009 is over, for better or worse. Now it is time to look ahead. We wanted to look for the best top stock picks for 2010 from our partners and from key…
Moody’s reports that credit card charge-offs by financial firms hit 10.56% in November. This represents sums that lenders feel they will not be able to collect .The credit rating agency expects that figure…
Short sellers took huge positions in major banks and telecom companies in the two-week period ending December 15. The short interest in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 30% to 281 million ahead of the bank…
Earlier this week came an alert that a technical event was likely to be seen in the major money center banks and major financial institution stocks pertaining to the 50-day moving averages. …
Almost all the very large financial firms that got TARP money have repaid it with Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) getting their money back to the Treasury just as the year ends. The…
Reuters:Â Â Pay czar Feinberg approved compensation at several bailed out firms. Reuters:Â Â Oil moved above $77 as US crude stocks dropped. Reuters:Â Â The US is probing some banks about their sale of…
Updated throughout the day. Allen Sanford is on the edge of a nervous breakdown. (Houston Chronicle). Citigroup (NYSE:C) says that The Wall Street Journal is wrong about hackers taking money from client…
Reuters:  US business investment is rising. Reuters:  Another outage shut down RIM’s (NYSE:RIMM) BlackBerry network. Reuters:  Geithner said tight lending could hurt US economy. Reuters:  Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) lost an appeal over IP…
There is a key technical event that may be close to occurring in some of the major banking and financial stocks. These have all used the 50-day moving average as a key…
Updated throughout the day. Lehman is paying out big bonuses a year after its collapse. (Bloomberg). Citigroup (NYSE:C) has been hit by hackers who may have stolen millions of dollars (WSJ) Google…
MarketWatch:   Moody’s (NYSE:MCO) downgraded Greece’s debt to A2 from A1 and said it had a negative outlook on the nation’s sovereign paper. Reuters:  The FBI is probing a cyber attack on Citigroup (NYSE:C). Reuters:  …
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has some good news this morning, although this could actually be bad news for those hoping for an immediate takeover. The company has been without an heir…
Many investors use the last few weeks of each year to sell stocks on which they have posted losses to help their tax position. Other investors simply clean the dead wood out…
