Shares of online auctioneer eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) are trading lower today to a new 52-week low on reports that CEO Meg Whitman will be stepping down. The WSJ led this reporting and…
This is the list for just one day. The wild paroxyxm of announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show has begun. Yahoo! (YHOO) says it will open up the software for its mobile…
According to The New York Times, The Weather Channel is for sale by owner Landmark. The price is estimated to be about $5 billion. That number seems low. The cable operation has…
These are not the only important analyst calls out there, but these are the top analyst calls that 24/7 Wall St. is focusing on: Affymetric (AFFX) raised to Buy at UBS. Citigroup…
24/7 Wall St. has evaluated over 200 CEOs in order to select it CEO of the Year. Six finalists were chosen from the list. The measurements were based on company stock performance…
We have already noted the Van der Moolen (NYSE:VDM) exit of all NYSE Specialist activities. What we wanted to look at is the underling stocks companies where Van der Moolen acts as…
According to Reuters, executives at Ford (F) say that they see a tough US market and will cut production as necessary. Reuters reports that Northern Rock received an injunction from the publication…
According to Reuters, BHP Billiton (BHP) will not sell its petroleum division, as had been rumored, to finance a bid for Rio Tinto (RTP). Reuters writes that most of the Hershey (HSY)…
Japan hardly needs more cellphone services, The market is already crowded with offerings from Docomo, Softbank, and KDDI. Price cutting by cell services to pick up market share is the business practice…
Douglas A. McIntyre The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced more toy recalls today for lead paint violations. There is a full list of product recalls here, but interestingly enough this may actually…
According to Reuters, the four largest players in global financial markets have grown at a breakneck pace in the last six years, and the assets they manage are expected to double to…
According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) offered $1.5 billion for reinsurance broker Benfield Reuters writes that Alan Greenspan thinks the chance of a US recession is still below 50/50. Reuters reports that…
Not to one to be out-flanked by NBC (GE) or ABC (DIS), News Corp’s (NWS) Fox unit will offer some of its most popular shows free on Apple (AAPL) iTunes. According to…
In a slap at Apple (AAPL) iTunes, the NBC Universal unit of GE (GE) yesterday announced that they would make a number of their TV shows available for download and viewing. Consumers…
According to Reuters, Nasdaq (NDAQ) and Borse Dubai will team up and buy the Swedish OMX. Reuters writes that Sony (SNE) will delay the launch of its Home online community of PS3,…
