While the media keeps putting the fear of Europe in you, stocks have bounced handily with the DJIA having bounced some 600 points in the last week and a half. Amazingly, some…
Members of the Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) board are close to picking a new chairman. (Reuters) Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) lack of success blocking rivals in court and the slow introduction of the iPhone…
You have heard the term “smoking kills.” The new fight is against fat, salt, sugar, and empty calories as America is trying to pick up its fight against obesity and the myriad…
The G7 will hold emergency talks about the eurozone, with special consideration of Spain. (Reuters) A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that few Facebook users buy goods and services because of advertising and “likes,” and…
Subscribers to the broadband cable services of Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will soon be able to get access to the Disney Channel from Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) on Internet-connected mobile devices…
Coalition talks in Greece have broken down and are not likely to resume. This means new elections are almost inevitable. That will delay the ability of the European Union and IMF to…
Several senior JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) executives will leave the bank in the wake of its $2 billion trading loss. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ex-CEO Scott Thompson has thyroid cancer. (WSJ) Greece will…
The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) super-hero movie “The Avengers” was the top grossing movie at the US box office this weekend. The same was true in many other countries. Estimates are that…
Douglas A. McIntyre A great deal of the discussion about Walt Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) unexpectedly strong earnings revolved around the fact that movie bomb “John Carter” had not crippled overall earnings per share. And the markets looked…
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) closed up ahead of earnings on Tuesday and the reaction is following the same trend in the after-hours session. Earnings came in at $0.58 EPS $9.629 billion…
Jon C. Ogg The line between mobile wireless carriers and cable and satellite TV providers has been blurring for a couple of years and may be on the way to disappearing entirely before too long.…
The GAO says the government could make $15.1 billion on its AIG (NYSE: AIG) bailout investment. (Reuters) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins the company’s IPO road show. (Reuters) Comscore says people spent…
The major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following a weekend of elections in Europe. A new Socialist party president in France and a still very cloudy future in Greece have…
Voters in Greece and France turn away from German austerity measures set for the region’s weakest nations. (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) moves into the home monitoring market. (Reuters) Ally Financial falls back…
24/7 Wall St. often looks at the key earnings reports scheduled for the week ahead. We have the bulk of the S&P 500 earnings behind us and we are now starting to…
