About three weeks ago, we looked at target prices and implied share price gains in a number of auto sector stocks. The quarterly earnings season had just begun, and hopes were pretty…
NYT: G.M. Profit Falls on Rising Costs http://nyti.ms/s8Io25 Reuters: Macy’s posts higher net, raises full-year outlook http://reut.rs/szLlTP Zerohedge: Worldwide Markets Collapse Following Italian Bond Margin Hike http://tinyurl.com/bouy2o4 BBC: Adobe job cuts cloud…
Greece will announce its new government today. (Reuters) Inflation in China drops in October. (Reuters) Olympus investment losses may have gone above $1 billion. (Reuters) Silvio Berlusconi leaves as prime minister of…
General Motors (NYSE: GM) management says it will double sales in China by 2015, according to several media reports. GM executives should know better. It would be better to underpromise and overdeliver,…
The Greek democracy is over 3,000 years old, and it may take another 3,000 for the nation to sort out its national debt problems. Prime Minister George Papandreou was able to withstand…
Douglas A. McIntyre Earnings season has peaked, but we still have many key earnings reports and economic events coming in the week ahead. 24/7 Wall St. has featured a calendar with events scheduled all-week on…
There is some food for thought in the world of alternative energy against the hatred of banks.  It is a very painful observation, but it is turning out to be that the…
Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has gone off the steadily climbing share price trajectory. We argued before that Sirius in many cases may now be tied to Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:…
The markets are beyond jittery. From a massively overbought market discounting a recession entirely back to a market dominated by the woes of Europe. The Europeans cannot get their bailouts straight because each…
Auto sales are likely to remain strong in the U.S. However, the stock prices of General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Ford (NYSE: F) are down 30% so far this year. October domestic…
Earnings season is still running strong and the economic readings keep coming out as well. As we come to the end of October, there is going to be plenty of news coming…
European Financial Stability Facility $1 trillion saves greece. The eurozone has set a larger European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which may have a balance as high as $1.4 trillion. This amount will…
A company can spend billions of dollars on R&D and get little respect as an innovator. Even though that is the conclusion of a new study by Booz & Co., the conclusion…
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) may not yet quite be investment grade, but the company is getting closer and closer.  Friday morning brought the news that Standard & Poor’s has raised the debt and credit…
New car sales in September are estimated to have risen 19% year-over-year, though down -5.5% sequentially. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of new car sales is now set at about 12.9 million…
