24/7 Wall St. has long considered E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) as a buyout candidate in the world of online brokerage firms. The company made some big gambles in an effort to…
The number of layoffs at large companies dipped as the recession ended in 2009, but the practice is back with a vengeance, renewing concerns the trend will cause another period of steep…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported better than expected earnings and its shares soared (Reuters) Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue fell (Reuters) A settlement of the debate over the U.S. debt pushed crude higher…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for July 19, 2011. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
Each year, Capgemini publishes the U.S. Metro Wealth Index, which ranks the number of high-net-worth individuals living within the ten largest metropolitan statistical areas. According to the report, high-net-worth Individuals “are defined…
Treasury officials examine ways to prevent default if an August 2 deadline to increase the debt cap is not met by Congress (Reuters) LaGarde will give a Chinese official a top job…
Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) have reversed a forecast from just two weeks ago suggesting that corn, wheat and soybean prices would be higher due to reduced harvests this…
Updated throughout the day Zynga may launch and IPO today (Reuters) Living Social will file for an IPO soon (Reuters) American Airline (NYSE: AMR) will get Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Airbus to…
There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
Aluminum prices climbed by more than 10% from January through April this year, to rise above $1.22/pound before losing all it had gained and returning to about $1.10/pound. At today’s price of…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS) Raised to Buy at Deutsche…
Updated throughout the day. David Solomon may be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) (Reuters) Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Siemens will restructure their joint venture after a failure to find…
China is worried that inflation will be above the government goal and result in higher interest rates as its economy slows. (Reuters) David Solomon may be the next CEO of Goldman Sachs.…
Continued success of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and the chance that a new version of the smartphone would launch in September pressures Motorola Mobility’s shares. A battle between Walgreen’s and joint…
Yesterday’s announcement by the International Energy Agency that member nations, including the US, would release 60 million barrels of crude sliced 5% off the price of a barrel of WTI crude. Oil…
