Reuters: A $25 billion debt plan for Dubai World helped calm markets. Reuters: GE (NASDAQ:GE) and Vivendi agreed to value NBCU at a price which gives the French company $5.8 billion for…
24/7 Wall St. looked at a very large number of Nascar crashes to assess which were the most expensive. The crashes reviewed occurred between 2002 and the present. A Fox Sports analysis estimates…
New research indicates that transportation companies will benefit the most from the government’s huge stimulus investment in infrastructure. According to a new ChangeWave survey of 313 people who work for companies involved with…
Reuters: UBS (NYSE:UBS) will put in a new US chief. Reuters: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) says “dark pools” help investors. Reuters: The US is welcoming the rise of the yuan. Retuers: Nelson Peltz’s…
Reuters: Japan Airlines faces $8.8 billion in excess debt if liquidated. Reuters: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) beat Wall St. estimates. Reuters: GM’s CEO will get a pay raise. Reuters: Nokia (NYSE:NOK) sued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)…
These are today’s unusual options trading patterns seen late in the afternoon. We have provided links over to VSInvestor.com for more details on each situation: There have been two large options transactions…
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts. We have more detailed price and volume data along with added color over with links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) beat most Wall St. expectations, and improved its guidance for the balance of 2009. The news pushed the stock up before the open of trading. CAT said it had a Q3 profit…
Douglas A. McIntyre We have seen the earnings reports from all five DJIA components which were on deck to report this Tuesday. We are seeing a theme here: almost all posted lower earnings from a…
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) beat earnings forecasts. Reuters: The IRS is probing some homebuyers’ tax credit gains. Reuters: The US is ready to bring more insider trading cases. Reuters: More US companies are…
We have provided some basic details on Tuesday’s earnings reports from DJIA components Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), DuPont or EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (NYSE: DD), Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), The Coca-Cola…
Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) gave us some figures this morning showing that there is still some trouble in this economic recovery. The maker of heavy industrial vehicles and equipment showed that dealer…
Douglas A. McIntyre Several consulting firms post annual figures for the world’s most valuable brands. The two best known are probably the Interbrand and BrandZ surveys. They are notably different, up until now at least.…
The media made a big deal of the fact that the DJIA rose above 9,000 for the first time in nearly eight months. The index was under 6,550 in early March, do…
Economists debate the impact of the U.S. economic stimulus plan, and if a second round of stimulus is needed. But there’s no doubt that China’s plan is working for us. In the…