“We will encourage the best firms to acquire or build up overseas operations and to license or acquire famous global brands in order to obtain international recognition and improve the image and…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) suffered from news that it will buy back $16 billion of distressed securities. Del Monte (NYSE: DLM) received bad press because of concerns about poor weather effecting crops. Note:…
Japan was hit by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. (Reuters) Chinese insurance regulators passed on details of the AIG (NYSE: AIG) disaster to local insurance companies, according to WikiLeaks. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) did not do its new shareholders much of a favor today by allowing Chris Liddell to resign this soon after the initial public offering. The former Microsoft…
BP (NYSE: BP) stayed at the top of the list of companies receiving the most negative news after skepticism about its CEO’s apology about Deepwater Horizon. Dynegy (NYSE: DYN) threatened a Chapter…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre The size of American labor unions has fallen sharply in the last decade. Much of this has to do with the erosion of the US manufacturing base. The single best example of…
Douglas A. McIntyre Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) has just recovered from a year that could have sunk lesser companies. Mere survival, though, is not Toyota’s goal. The company’s president and grandson of Toyota’s founder,…
History could be about to repeat itself. In 2008, gasoline prices moved above $3/gallon and sales of gas-guzzling SUVs, pickups, and some cars plummeted. With gasoline prices moving inexorably toward $4/gallon today,…
Jobs are expected to be at a nine-month high in February. (Reuters) Chrysler hopes to refinance its debt ahead of an IPO (Reuters) Banks which mishandled mortgage paperwork have been approached by…
The sales of Toyota (NYSE: TM) cars and light trucks rose 42% in February to a total of 141,826. Toyota sold nearly as many cars last month as Ford Motor (NYSE: F)…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in talks to sell its part of a Japanese joint venture for $8 billion. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 today. (Reuters) The SEC charged…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. A123 Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) Raised to Neutral at BofA/ML. Boston…
The debate over brand values becomes more confused by the year. Several consultancies rank brand values. Each uses different methodologies, perhaps to defend why their figures differ from their rivals. The most…
There is a car price war about to take place in the US. It will be driven by the large number of new models which have begun to be released, the high…
