The research calls are running light this week with many firms still on skeleton crews. These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research…
The short sellers ran for cover yet again when it comes to the actively traded high-priced market leaders. There was hardly an exception. December 15 settlement date for the short interest was…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) may be the poster child firm for wealth and excess on Wall Street. The bonus pools around Wall Street are being tallied up, and Bloomberg has…
Facebook is the best place to work among US companies, according to employee research firm Glassdoor. The survey was based on nearly 150,000 employee reviews submitted during 2010 on companies with more than…
The new tax package made it through the first stage of Congressional approval. (Reuters) The federal government began the process of setting higher capital requirements for US banks. (Reuters) China will have…
It appears that the S&P 500 Index is set to finish 2010 at about 1,250, 12% above its reading of 1,115 on December 31, 2009. A survey of 11 strategists for big banks…
The short sellers ran for cover in the actively traded high priced market leaders at the end of November. With only a few exceptions of our “high-priced leaders,” almost all of these…
The new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad may have front and back cameras. (Reuters) Strength in the Chinese economy pushed crude back above $89. (Reuters) The strength of China’s trade may cause a…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (also called The Dow, Dow 30 and the DJIA) is what most Americans think of as the “stock market.” The widely followed benchmark of 30 American stocks,…
Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the most insight. …
It is 13F season and investors are looking to see what their favorite gurus are up to. While everyone is looking at the slew of Buffett portfolio changes, it is John Paulson…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2010. This list appears to have many more changes than…
Updated throughout the day. China car company SAIC will buy a stake in the GM IPO (Reuters) Facebook will add and e-mail service (WSJ) Goldman Sachs Group’s (NYSE: GS) bid to pay…
Updated throughout the day. Chinese car firm SAIC is close to buying a position in the GM IPO (Reuters) Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) pulled money out of the Harbinger Capital Partners…
Douglas A. McIntyre Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 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…
