Short sellers have bought into the notion that the financial industry is in full recovery. Shares sold short in Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) fell 8% to 78.8 million shares. Shares short in CIT…
Reuters: Two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were acquited. Reuters: Zucker, NBCU’s current CEO, will head the company when Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) buys a majority of the company from GE (NYSE:GE). Reuters: Dodd’s super-bank regulator…
Updated throughout the day. Updated at 11.49 AM EST: Reynolds Americam (NYSE:RAI) may buy Niconovum, a Swedish maker of nicotine gum and mouth sprays (Boomberg) Updated at 10.12 AM EST: Wells Fargo…
These are this Monday’s top day trader and active traders stock alerts. We have a link for more detailed analysis and price/volume data at VSInvestor.com: Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA) is up 10%…
NBC Universal, the entertainment arm of GE (NYSE:GE) which is 20% owned by Vivendi, is worth $30 billion. That is the figure that GE and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), the cable company that intends…
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) spends a great deal of its test kitchen time trying to beat the clock. It has occurred to the fast food chain that a customer who expects to wait 30…
Reuters: Hurricane Ida is heading toward Gulf oil fields. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) will make its bid for Cadbury. Reuters: GE (NYSE:GE) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) have agreed to an NBCU valuation. Reuters: The…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) may be the one single bright spot taking the market higher this Friday when you consider the 10.2% unemployment rate and when you look over the latest…
Who is the greatest American CEO of the last decade? Jack Welch, who retired as GE’s (NYSE:GE) chief in 2001. He held his job at the head of the world’s largest conglomerate…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.05 PM EST: Las Vagas Sands (NYSE:LVS) will try to raise $2.5 billion though an IPO in Hong Kong (AP) Updated 11.12 AM EST: Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) is…
Reuters: Investors in the banking sector were disturbed by the CIT (NYSE:CIT) bankruptcy. Reuters: Summers will lead a high level meeting on the economy. Reuters: US companies are holding more cash. Reuters: …
Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.45 AM EST There is not as much cash on the sidelines as most investors expect. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) has frozen hiring on the team evaluating integration…
Wind energy is supposed to be one of the key puzzle pieces in the quest to get off the dependence of foreign energy sources. Yet a fairly disturbing story from the Daily…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.21 AM EST: The pricing of the Ancestry.com IPO may be much too high. (BreakingViews). Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social search feature may not include industry leader Facebook …
Wall St. likes financial statements that give it deep insights into a company’s operations, especially its liabilities. It likes boards that make sure shareholders get as complete a picture as possible of…
