Media Digest 12/31/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: China has hit back at a tariff put on steel pipes by the US. Reuters: Oil, near $80, may have strongest gain in a decade. Reuters: The government will give GMAC $3.5…
Reuters: China has hit back at a tariff put on steel pipes by the US. Reuters: Oil, near $80, may have strongest gain in a decade. Reuters: The government will give GMAC $3.5…
Updated throughout the day. GMAC will get $3.5 billion in government support (various) Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) common stock may be worthless (TheStreet) Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will host the launch of its…
Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky Lab Americas made a number of either intemperate or prescient comments to USA Today. It may take a year to find out if he is a fool or a profit.…
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) wants to make it clear that it expects its Bing search engine to enjoy the same success in China that the software company believes it will have in the US market.…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has had trouble figuring out how it will make money from its huge video sharing website YouTube since it bought the company for $1.65 billion in October 2006. In 2007,…
Reuters: GM is offering huge incentives to sell its inventory of Pontiacs and Saturns. Reuters: Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will overhaul the pay of senior management. Reuters: The departing AIG (NYSE:AIG) general counsel will…
We have seen what appears to be a mixed bag of shares listed in the short interest of the most active NASDAQ tech stocks traded day in and day out. Apple Inc.…
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares hit an all-time high yesterday as they rose to $209.35 up 3.5%. Most of the increase way due to rumors that the company will finally launch its tablet PC…
Reuters: Pay czar Feinberg approved compensation at several bailed out firms. Reuters: Oil moved above $77 as US crude stocks dropped. Reuters: The US is probing some banks about their sale of…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) rose close to 0.5% to a yearly high of $601.50, carried by the momentum of the market. Jabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE: JBL) rose over 14% to a yearly…
Updated throughout the day. Lehman is paying out big bonuses a year after its collapse. (Bloomberg). Citigroup (NYSE:C) has been hit by hackers who may have stolen millions of dollars (WSJ) Google…
MarketWatch: Moody’s (NYSE:MCO) downgraded Greece’s debt to A2 from A1 and said it had a negative outlook on the nation’s sovereign paper. Reuters: The FBI is probing a cyber attack on Citigroup (NYSE:C). Reuters: …
We have compiled several options chains we are watching today now that the DEC-2009 PUTS/CALLS have expired on Friday. Much of this likely options roll-outs continuing, but we are seeing some unusual…
Many investors use the last few weeks of each year to sell stocks on which they have posted losses to help their tax position. Other investors simply clean the dead wood out…
Updated throughout the day. The auto task force says GM and Chrysler are recovering ahead of schedule (Reuters) Carl Icahn may force a sale of Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) after buying 11% of…