Equities opened a little weaker this morning, but by 10:00 a.m. markets had turned slightly positive and have remained in positive territory for the rest of the day. The gain has not…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is probably thinking “Now it Europe’s turn to lose the ‘AAA’ rating.” After all, the conglomerate still represents the broad economy by many standards. It saw the…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.…
The super committee makes no significant decisions on the budget deficit. (Reuters) The largest shareholder in Olympus cuts its position. (Reuters) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launches its new music service. (Reuters) Germany and…
The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken down into two…
The outlook for uranium miners and nuclear power plant builders has dimmed considerably following the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant last spring. The Japanese government is considering building non-nuclear plants…
Yet another study shows that the largest U.S. companies pay very little in taxes. The problem, if it is one, has gone without a solution for years. There is nothing on the…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average , measured by the DIAMONDS (NYSE: DIA) is back above 12,000 again. Keep in mind that the low on October 4, just 23 days ago, was 10,362.26. …
The first large-scale geothermal electricity generating plant in the US was developed in the 1960s in northern California. Unocal, now part of Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), did the initial work and the…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) must be in real trouble, even worse than what we have all been fearing. Rob Gillette is out as CEO. The circumstances behind the news were not…
3M Co. (NYSE: (NYSE: MMM) is standing apart from its competing conglomerate peers. Not for the better. United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON), and General Electric Co. (NYSE:…
A raft of good earnings reports pushed the markets higher at opening this morning, sending the Dow Industrials up about 200 points at mid-day. For some reason traders are hopeful that this…
GE (NYSE: GE) posted earnings that were above average. Jeff Immelt may want to step down from his positions as Obama’s adviser and spend all of his time at the conglomerate to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Slow sales of Windows keeps Microsoft’ s (NASDAQ: MSFT) revenue low. (Reuters) The Murdoch family will face voters angered about the UK paper hacking scandal at today’s annual meeting. (Reuters) Greece’s parliament…
