Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
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…
Research firm Trucar expects Toyota (TM) to spend $395 million on incentives this month. The company’s incentive per car will be 37% higher than in February and 47% higher than they was in March…
Short sellers pushed into tech, communications, and industrial companies for the period ending March 15, but largely moved out of financial shares. Short interest in Cisco (CSCO) was up 12% to 53.7…
Reuters: Google (GOOG) risks China’s wrath by its challenge to censorship Reuters: China expressed both regret and anger at Google’s move. Reuters: The head of the Chicago Fed said the agency will…
Edmunds reports that incentives have increased the public’s “intent to purchase” Toyota’s by 40% in March. That may help the Japanese car company some, but its competitors have rolled out incentives as well.…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Toyota (TM) dominated the 2010 JD Power Vehicle Dependability Survey. Granted, the poll looks back over a period of a year. Power describes the methodology as “original vehicle owners were asked to report the type and…
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…
Every car sold in America, and perhaps the rest of the world, is broken or dangerous to drive so it seems. Toyota (TM) has recalled more than eight million cars. Ford (F) says…
Reuters: The Fed is likely to keep interest rates low for some time. Reuters: China said the yuan in not behind the US trade gap. Reuters: A record number of Chinese are…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Toyota’s US sales are recovering in March, as improbable as that may seem. Industry research group Edmunds.com said the Japanese company’s zero percent incentive plan has brought Toyota’s market share in the US…
On the tenth anniversary of the tech bubble of 2000, short sellers aggressively dropped their bets against hardware, software and internet companies. Figures are from February 28. The short interest in Apple…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
