Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) is the most highly regarded CEO of any large financial services firm by his employees. That is the conclusion of the 2010 Summer Finance…
Douglas A. McIntyre The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) has made final plans to plug its well. Reuters: The dollar index fell to a three-month low due to a slowing economy. Reuters: Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:…
Reuters: The Fed Beige Book says some regions see economic slowing. Reuters: The China People’s Daily ran an editorial which encourages the US to take account of China’s rising power. Reuters: Amazon.com…
Updated throughout the day. Yahoo! (NYSE: YHOO) is building a competitor to Facebook (WSJ) Sallie Mae may be broken up and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) may handle the transaction (NY Post). Douglas…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) new CEO called the spill a “wake up call” for the oil industry. Reuters: The IMF backed down on its comments about the yuan’s value. Reuters: Google…
Updated throughout the day. Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) is considering an offer from Sanofi-Aventis (Reuters) Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Goldman Sachs’s private-equity unit are negotiating to buy Harrington Holdings (Bloomberg) Douglas A.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) probably deserves a huge pay package as much as anyone else. His company has become wildly successful and has been a steady producer…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, unhappy about the efforts by Goldman Sachs Group (GS) to give it comprehensive data on its derivatives trading group, may find the information out anyway through an…
Douglas A. McIntyre Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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…
Pay czar Ken Feinberg will issue a report which shows that some senior managers at firms which include Citigroup (NYSE: C), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) made…
Reuters: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) beat Wall St. expectations but it stock did not move. Reuters: The pay czar will criticize Goldman Sachs Group, Citigroup (NYSE: C), and JPMorgan Chase…
Updated throughout the day. BP plc’s CEO Tony Hayward will step down, or not (Times of London, Reuters) AIG (NYSE: AIG) picked Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS)…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Raised to Outperform at FBR. Apache Corp. (NYSE:…
