G8 leaders will met and will probably focus on the IMF and upheaval in Africa and the Middle East (Reuters) Hedge fund manager David Einhorn wants Steve Ballmer replaced as CEO of…
The Dow Jones industrial average, the best-known barometer of the U.S. stock market, has been on a tear recently, gaining more than 16% over the past year. Investors have not yet recovered…
Next week will mark the third week of the full daily earnings onslaught in what is really the fourth week of earnings season. There are many market-moving companies and sector-moving companies reporting…
Many experts believe the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates near zero until the end of the year (Reuters) Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) says Sokol deceived the company and may have violated…
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will begin to ship the new version of its iPhone in September (Reuters) Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) both posted strong earnings (Reuters) A drop in…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for April 15, 2011.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day. Regulators and Wall St. banks are close to a settlement on mortgage loan fraud (WSJ) An IPO may value Groupon as high as $20 billion (WSJ) Comcast’s (NASDAQ:…
Douglas A. McIntyre A sharp increase in costs hurt Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) first quarter earnings. (Reuters) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is expected to beat earnings forecasts but mortgage costs will hurt its numbers. (Reuters) Banks…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.…
Dish Network bought the assets of Blockbuster to compete with Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), if the media is right. At about the same time, Netflix signed an arrangement to offer “Mad Men,” and…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) appears to have united just about everybody but its customers to curb the company’s growing power. The latest foray comes from the Starz pay-cable TV channels, owned by…
Antitrust regulators will get a great deal of exercise this spring. AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced it will buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom. Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), the struggling wireless company, will object…
When Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) coughed up $1.65 billion for YouTube in 2006, there were plenty of questions about what the Google brass was smoking. It’s still not clear whether YouTube is…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Cut to Neutral at UBS. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.…
The National Association for Business Economics said the deficit was its No.1 concern. (Reuters) Congress appears less likely to shut down the government because of budget problems. (Reuters) The high price of…
