Samsung filed patent lawsuits against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over smartphone technology (Reuters) The Japanese government will release $50 billion to cover initial costs of the earthquake (Reuters) The Administration will create a…
Fiat is about to buy another 16% of Chrysler which would take its total stake to 46%. The deal would involve a payment of $1.5 billion, which does not value the No.3…
Updated throughout the day Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will ship the iPhone 5 in September (Reuters) GM’s (NYSE: GM) China sales may push it into the No.1 slot in global car sales ahead…
In today’s commodities news another automaker is raising prices to meet higher commodity prices, corn and wheat continue to jostle for position as the higher-priced food, and gold prices keep climbing. General…
The good news for the IPO market in 2011 is that investors are willing to pay for IPOs. They are even willing to overpay for quality IPOs. The problem is when these…
The US Treasury may want to wait a few years to sell its portion of GM. The federal government put $50 billion of taxpayer money into the largest US car company (NYSE:…
Douglas A. McIntyre Poor trading results are likely to hurt Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) earnings (Reuters) Japan’s government, which owns billions in US papers, stated it had confidence in the value and future of…
Ford Motor (NYSE: F) CEO Alan Mulally made $26,520,515 in 2010, according to the company’s proxy. It is the cheapest $26 million the firm ever spent. Ford was at death’s door a year…
Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) will raise prices on some of its cars and light trucks by 2.2% in May. It is a risk worth taking if sales of all vehicles in the…
BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is finally getting the respect it deserves. The asset manager is being added to the S&P 500 Index. The index had held this addition up for years due…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a report out to start this week with a longer-term outlook for cleantech and alternative energy. The firm has a view of several key winners, although…
America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before the middle…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for March 23, 2011.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) was swamped with bad press as it was sued by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) over patents on technology used in the Nook e-reader. PG&G has applied to renew…
The Nikkei rose 4.3% today to 9,608. Another two days of similar gains would put the index at nearly 10,550, which is close to where it traded before the devastating earthquake and…
