CEOs from General Electric (NYSE: GE), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and other companies tell Obama in their President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness report that he must get more foreign investment…
Dexia rescued, part nationalized and part receives guarantees from Belgium. (Reuters) Germany and France agree to crisis plans for the region’s banks. (Reuters) A huge growth of debt in China could cause…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) may buy Ericsson out of their smartphone joint venture. (Reuters) Geithner says problems with EU sovereign debt pose a significant risk to the global economy. (Reuters) A bill that…
For several years, investing in large alt energy projects depended on large commercial banks being able to profit from the tax equity generated by a project’s developer. That investment strategy began to…
Short sellers appear ready to follow bank stocks all the way down to zero, at least based on data for the period that ended September 15. Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE: C)…
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
Customer satisfaction with purchases of durable goods in 2011 remains virtually identical with 2010 levels most likely as a result of falling prices. A survey of customer satisfaction with personal computers, appliances,…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has signed agreements with a number of companies that will use GE’s technology to explore for energy, generate power, and make beer in China. The contracts literally…
The wind power industry has taken something of a back seat to the solar PV makers in the last few months. News of bankruptcies, missed earnings targets, and collapsing prices will always…
Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE: TYC) already partly deconglomerized in a three-way break up of the company. Now its core parent company is splitting up what is left of the operation into three…
There is value in the world of conglomerates. The news flow is further evidence of that, but we have to throw up the caveat the driving force today should likely be considered…
The 30-Year Treasury auction, the so-called Long Bond, had a strong participation for what is technically a 29-year and 11-month bond. The participation rate was strong enough that this still shows a…
Moody’s cuts ratings of France’s Credit Agricole and Societe Generale as Greek debt trouble spreads. (Reuters) Federal Reserve may try to help the economy with more bond purchases. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is making good on a promise it made earlier this year: it is paying back Warren Buffett. An SEC filing after the closing bell shows that GE…
John Chambers of Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) to preside over the company’s analyst meeting, perhaps for the last time. (Reuters) Merkel says the euro has no orderly method for a default. (Reuters) The…
