After a couple of failed offers, General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has finally reached an agreement to acquire Britain’s Wellstream Holdings plc (OTC: WSHOY) for $1.3 billion. The deal is expected to…
There had been a rumor that General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) was going to hike its dividend again, and that rumor turned out to be true. GE just announced that it has…
Jon C. Ogg Updated throughout the day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release a new iPad with two cameras (various) China’s largest social network, Oak Pacific International, will have an IPO (Reuters) The FAA will increase…
The new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad may have front and back cameras. (Reuters) Strength in the Chinese economy pushed crude back above $89. (Reuters) The strength of China’s trade may cause a…
To make the cut onto the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, a company has to have paid a dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years. The index includes at least 40…
These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Altera Corp. (NASDAQ: ALTR) Started as Neutral at Janney. Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI)…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is often hard to evaluate but if any unit will rule the roost, that is arguably GE Capital. This continued improvement was part of our thesis when…
Jon C. Ogg The Dow Jones Industrial Average (also called The Dow, Dow 30 and the DJIA) is what most Americans think of as the “stock market.” The widely followed benchmark of 30 American stocks,…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) may break itself into pieces in preparation for a potential merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ YHOO). (Reuters) Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told “60 Minutes” that the central…
Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That’s ironic given how little he seems to care about…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) dismissed speculation, per CNN, that it is the big U.S. bank that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes magazine will be the website’s next target. OK!…
When Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently signed a contract with Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) to store and deliver streaming video, the stage was set for the next round in the…
US shale gas deposits were known to have existed for decades. The problem was how to turn them into flowing wells. The natural gas was tightly compressed into small pockets in virtually…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a rising star in the Republican party, recently stunned the media by expressing doubts about global warming. Four scientists from universities in the state even invited him…
The recorded music business has been getting beaten up for the last decade or so, starting with the original release of Napster in the late 1990s. Music industry executives decided that they’d…
