The breakup of the Pfizer-Allergan deal may only be a warning sign for both Apple and Google and any other company filtering money through foreign countries to avoid taxes, but the trend…
The worries about slowing growth among major tech companies have not kept them from dominating the list of public corporations by market capitalization, according to The Online Investor.
April 4, 2016: Markets opened lower again on Monday following an expected decline in orders for new manufactured goods. Overseas, crude oil prices slipped and have continued to fall during the day.…
Halliburton aimed to pay $35 billion for Baker Hughes in a deal that was expected to close by the end of 2015, but it is still trapped in a regulatory embrace that…
General Electric wants GE Capital, its financial arm, to be removed from the Federal Reserve's list of systemically important financial institutions, to which it was added in July 2013.
General Electric has sold its own asset management unit to State Street for up to $485 million, just one more step along the path to an industrial focus.
The U.S. market and economy remains one of the best places for investors to put their money. These top companies all make very good sense for growth and income portfolios.
March 28, 2016: Markets opened higher on Monday after the three-day weekend and an early morning report on personal spending. The PCE index excluding food and energy rose 0.1% which was less…
Interest in almost all of the most heavily shorted stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange shrank between the February 29 and March 15 settlement dates. Except for Pfizer, that is.
Granted the dollar has been volatile, but with the Federal Reserve rate hikes on hold for now, and many of the speculators closing long dollar trades, there could be some help on…
The Federal Reserve Board announced on Monday that it has approved the application by Goldman Sachs Bank USA to assume certain deposits and acquire certain assets from GE Capital Bank.
March 17, 2016: Markets opened slightly higher on Thursday following solid gains on Wednesday following the FOMC announcement. The Nasdaq Composite traded lower until the noon hour, but the other 2 major…
For the S&P 500 index to move toward a new record, the prices of some of the largest components will need to make most of the momentum.
Most of the stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange with the greatest number of shares short saw their short interest decline between the February 12 and February 29 settlement dates.
Dividends can make up more than half of total returns through time, but buybacks can act directly to create support for the stock while giving the existing shareholders larger and larger stakes…
