After today’s close, we’ll get to see earnings out of conglomerate, insurance giant, and recent bailout investor Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) NYSE: BRK-B). Warren Buffett and friends do not get many…
From Goldman Sachs (GS) by way of MarketWatch: "The unemployment rate is expected to rise to 8.5% by the end of next year and inch even higher in early 2010, economists for…
Douglas A. McIntyre Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) had been the one spot in the brokerage sector which was immune from the credit crunch and nearly immune from the mortgage mess. In fact, the company…
According to Reuters, Europe prepared rate cuts as the economy their worsened. Reuters reports that the administration cleared the way for the car companies to get access to $25 billion in loans,…
Depending upon where your local elections are held, it looks like we are the half-way mark for most voting poll times today. What has been a 19- or 20- month ordeal is…
Many of the layoff announcements which came over the last several days were as unexpected as they were large. If a recession is measured by the rapidity and breadth of job losses…
Wall St. is a den of thieves and NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants to wipe them out on his way to becoming governor like his father was before him. His latest…
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) has confirmed that activist Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has shared various ideas for an alternative ownership structure related to Target real estate. It also said that this has been…
We are seeing many high volume price drops in actively traded shares today. In most cases, the earnings are to blame, but there are other issues affecting some stocks as well. Goldman…
Sometimes there is just lunacy written about financial companies, and sometimes there is lunacy inside of financial companies. Forget about the argument that there are usually both for a minute. Yesterday we…
Citigroup (C) is not going to make it, at least not an an independent company. The FT has reported that the head of Goldman Sachs (GS) called Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit to…
According to Reuters, the Korean central bank made record rate cuts. Reuters reports that the G7 said the rising yen may be a threat to financial markets. Reuters writes that Hungary and…
This is obviously one of our ugliest mornings in years with futures trading limit down. What is interesting is that the financial stocks are the most leveraged to this, yet oddly enough…
No matter where economists look there is no evidence that a recession in the US, EU, and Asia is doing anything but deepening. The stock markets are the least of it. Some…
The media is reporting that Goldman Sachs (GS) will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 3,000 people. Since the firm has been at the summit of its industry for decades, the…
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