This shortened week is the first week full of many major companies reporting earnings season. We will have a clear direction for the financial leaders and many of the technology leaders after…
Fifteen months ago, the price of a gallon of regular gas was well below $3 a gallon, according to AAA data. It came close to the $4 level six months ago, but…
Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the 10 most…
Layoffs have surged recently. There is no telling why they happened all at about the same time. Drug giant Novartis (NYSE: NVS) said it will cut nearly 2,000 jobs. Food Lion will shut…
TPG may invest $1 billion in troubled Olympus. (Reuters) President Obama to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. (Reuters) China’s foreign currency reserves drop to $3.18 trillion,…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is about to report earnings Friday morning as the first bank and second DJIA component kicking off earnings season. We wanted to make a preview…
Foreclosures fell for the first time in four years, according to research firm Realtytrac. The firm said “Foreclosure filings were reported on 205,024 U.S. properties in December, a decrease of 9 percent from…
Olympus may partner with Samsung. (Reuters) RBS cuts 3,500 investment bank jobs. (Reuters) RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures reached a four-year low in 2011. (Reuters) International Monetary Fund senior executive Lipton sees no…
Jon OggThis was the first week after the holidays and many analyst calls were made this week with updated outlooks for 2012. 24/7 Wall St. saw many influential analyst calls this week…
Markets opened lower today and of the three major indexes, only the S&P 500 was able to break through to positive territory and stay there for most of the day. The DJIA…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO) Maintained Outperform as Bull of…
Updated throughout the day PayPal President Scott Thompson will become Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) next CEO (AllThingsD) MF Global sold some of its assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before it went bankrupt…
Douglas A. McIntyre  Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total Return Fund has $1.4 billion in outflows in December, according to Morningstar. (Reuters) MF Global sold some assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before its collapsed. (Reuters) As…
If there is a banking and financial boutique that investors pay attention to, it is Keefe Bruyette & Woods. The firm is out with a note trimming fourth quarter bank earnings, handily cutting estimates in…
A letter regarding former Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd’s behavior which caused his dismissal was ordered to be released by a Delaware court (Reuters) The US sold Saudi Arabia 84 F-15 fighters…
