For its first fiscal quarter of 2011, Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) reported that profit fell -12% and revenue fell by -4.8% due mainly to weakness in the company’s film business. Viacom’s cable…
The press made a great deal of the change in command at the top of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). It is hardly a change at all. The new CEO of the giant search…
Many investors find no better teacher than Warren Buffett. His place as one of the world’s wealthiest men speaks for itself thanks to the almost unimaginable gains seen by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.…
The cost of carrying Monday Night Football is about to go from being expensive to off the charts. We Americans probably never think of the costs behind carrying the game. The costs…
Rumors are still running rampant despite the upcoming slow period around the holidays. The biggest macroeconomic issue surrounds the chatter around China, first with it saying it will buy more sovereign debt…
Seventeen billionaires including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz have agreed to pledge most of their money to charity. (www.thegivingpledge.org) (Reuters) WikiLeaks supporters shut down the MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE V)…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking movement in shares of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), Dynavox (NASDAQ: DVOX), ESCO…
Picking stocks for a decade is no easy task. It might as well be for a lifetime because there probably will be two more bear markets and two more bull markets between…
Earnings season is getting thinner on which companies are reporting earnings, but we still have 5 key earnings due the rest of the week. Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC), Cisco Systems Inc.…
Earnings season is winding down, but next week will bring several key earnings which could move the markets are can definitely move sectors. Top earnings we are watching are from priceline.com Inc.…
The Federal Reserve may allow some of the nation’s strongest banks to raise their dividends. (Reuters) The S&P and DJIA hit 2 year highs. (Reuters) China attacked the US over its plans…
One of the few bits of investing conventional wisdom that nearly everyone accepts is that people should always look out for number one. The problem with following that advice is investors may…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI) Started as Neutral at Sterne Agee. ASML Holding (NASDAQ:…
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Reuters: The American Sociology Review said a group of mortgages aimed at racially segregated neighborhoods helped cause the mortgage crisis. Reuters: Sanofi-Aventis made an $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ). Reuters: …
