Reuters: The head of GM says taxpayers may get their entire investment back. Reuters: Obama will urge tougher rules on Wall St. Reuters: The CEO of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) attacked…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has just found out exactly what it feels like to be stock with a still inexpensive multiple that sells off after a mixed earnings report. As this had…
Jon C. Ogg There is an interesting merger this morning in the credit card processing industry. Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is acquiring CyberSource Corporation (NASDAQ: CYBS) for $26 per share in a deal valued at…
Earnings season is off to the races, even if Friday was a curve-ball for the markets and for reactions to earnings. Most of the big stocks are off on Wall Street scandal…
These are this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Anheuser Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Started as…
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research notes this morning: Apartment Investment & Management Co. (NYSE: AIV) Raised to Sector Perform at RBC Capital.…
Reuters: A suicide bomber killed 37 in Moscow. Reuters: China sentenced Rio Tinto (RTP) executives in prison for ten years. Reuters: A JPMorgan $1.4 billion tax write-off faces FDIC scrutiny. Reuters: Some Apple…
These are the some of the top research call summaries for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street analyst calls this Thursday morning: Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Started as Buy…
Reuters: The Obama health care bill passed the House and Senate. Reuters: The Senate will begin a fight on financial reform Reuters: Arrow agreed to a buyout from Shell (RDS.A) and PetroChina (PTR).…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networds in the world. All major media companies have a presence on Twitter and…
Reuters: Toyota (TM) told regulators it is looking at how to fix 1.2 million Corollas. Reuters: A Chinese export body said a rise in the yuan would be destructive. Reuters: China Mobile’s…
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter…
Updated throughout the day. Janet Yellen will be nominated to be vice chair of the Fed (various) Meg Whitman’s former CEO of Ebay (EBAY) run for governor of California may be hurt by…
Reuters: Met Life (MET) is close to buying AIG’s (AIG) foreign insurance unit for $15.5 billion. Reuters: Subway will try to catch McDonald’s (MCD) in China by 2020. Reuters: Greece’s central bank…
Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota…
