This coming weekend will mark the one weekend that the hotels, retailers, and restaurants all look forward to in Omaha, Nebraska… Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) has its much-anticipated shareholder meeting…
Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) is one of those companies that is categorized as a conglomerate by most financial analysis sector groupings. It is not quite diversified enough by our count to be…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Reiterated Buy and $108…
US manufacturers like Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON), United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) could be signalling a broader recovery coming in the US and global economies.…
GE’s (NYSE: GE) bottom line looked very good, until the numbers were examined by division. Revenue from continuing operations was up 6% to $38.4 billion. GAAP EPS was up 48% to $.31.…
Douglas A. McIntyre General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report its first quarter earnings on Thursday morning and investors will view it as a proxy for the broader economy. Investors seem to have…
Jon C. Ogg Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will begin to ship the new version of its iPhone in September (Reuters) Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) both posted strong earnings (Reuters) A drop in…
Today’s wrap-up of alt energy news includes a look at the latest investment by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) in wind energy, another federal loan guarantee for a solar farm, and two acquisitions…
Next week may be short because of a holiday, but it is going to be a very busy week for earnings. We have tried to narrow the field down to the very…
It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector. General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) plans to build a new plant to manufacture 400 megawatts annually of thin-film solar PV…
The ECB is likely to raise rates and more may come this year (Reuters) Portugal sought aid from the EU as its ability to raise money faltered (Reuters) A top M&A lawyer…
It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector, and some of it is far from pretty. There is an awful development in China on wind power orders and…
It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector. The pollsters at Gallup asked US citizens in the last week of March if they thought US nuclear power plants…
It is April Fools’ Day but we are not going to propagate any hoaxes. What we do want to revisit is some of the great frauds which have originated outside of public companies and…
Here’s our daily report on developments in solar and wind power, alternative fuels, and other news related to the alternative energy sector. Germany’s largest maker of solar PVs has warned that 2011…
