China’s auto dealers are taking more deliveries of new cars than they can sell. Deliveries totaled 1.28 million vehicles in May, higher than the consensus estimate of 1.22 million and the third…
A rate cut in China prompts some economists to worry that May economic data will be weak. (Reuters) In the wake of its ratings downgrade by Fitch, Angela Merkel says that the…
Moody’s has telegraphed a banking sector review for quite some time, and it has actually been ongoing and the ‘bad news’ should be out very soon. We skipped many of the smaller…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its data on GDP growth by state for 2011. One of the trends the data show are that many of the states most badly hurt by…
The European Union may form a central office of treasury to match the European Central Bank. (Reuters) Ford (NYSE: F) may create brands specific to the Chinese market. (Reuters) The slowing economy…
Annual meetings of Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) will include questions about fracking. (Reuters) Ford (NYSE: F) will begin to buy out some of its pension funds. (Reuters) JP…
The appointment of former politicians to large public companies’ boards is regularly called into question. Just recently, following the scandal at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) when CEO Aubrey McClendon made investments in…
Merkel and Hollande will fight over stimulus for the eurozone at the EU summit. (Reuters) The OECD expresses concerns that Europe could slip into a deep recession. (Reuters) The EU debt crisis pushes global…
Douglas A. McIntyre Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is now considered ‘investment grade’ at Moody’s after a late-day upgrade. Moody’s Investors Service raised the senior unsecured ratings of Ford to Baa3 from Ba2, which is the…
Jon C. Ogg ZyngaZynga’s (NASDAQ: ZNGA) shares are down 15% over the past two days, a little more than those of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) after its initial public offering. There are several critical difference between the…
24/7 Wall St. asked CoreBrand to identify America’s hottest brands. We wanted to know the biggest brands that were the best known and most well regarded. Read: America’s Hottest Brands Generally, most…
Over the past 12 months, the best performing car maker stock is — drum roll — Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). Shares in the maker of electric vehicles (EVs) are up more…
After a three-year period in which Toyota (NYSE: TM) recalled more than eight million cars worldwide for problems that included faulty accelerators, as well as natural disasters in Japan and Thailand that…
The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower this morning as weak performance in the European markets as traders try to figure out what last weekend’s elections mean. Crude oil was also…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM) Cut to Underperform at BofA/ML. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals,…
