This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for July 7, 2011.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
24/7 Wall St. is probably not alone in noticing that there were very few earnings warnings issued by the major companies that dictate market trends going into the end of June. That…
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…
Banks object to plans that would allow regulators to clawback pay if a bank becomes troubled and has to be liquidated (Reuters) Geithner has not told The White House he wants to…
Banks were already having a good day, but a new ruling has come out from the Federal Reserve on interchange fees. Maybe the proper description would be “less bad” of news. Banks…
Do voluntary markets for renewable energy work? Government-mandated energy portfolios sort of work although the energy costs more and utilities — and consumers — often wail at having to buy the more…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will launch a cloud version of Office to compete with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). (Reuters) Oil fell on Greek debt concerns. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) said its protected content made…
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…
The IEA and OPEC disagreed about the size of oil reserves. (Reuters) Greece has an agreement with the EU and IMF along with new austerity plans. (Reuters) A Reuters poll says most…
The head of PIMCO expects that Greece and other EU nations will default. (Reuters) The LulzSec group of hackers claims it will expand its attacks on private and government networks. (Reuters) The…
Fitch said a voluntary roll-over of Greece sovereign debt would be viewed as a default. (Reuters) This week is critical to US budget talks as an August 2 deadline looms. (Reuters) Wal-Mart…
Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) may have just wiggled its way into being one of the few top banks in America. The company is acquiring ING Direct USA from ING Groep…
Hackers attacked the CIA website. (Reuters) Citigroup (NYSE: C) said data on 360,000 customers was stolen nearly a month ago. (Reuters) Greek debt and concerns about economic slowdown hurt stock prices worldwide.…
Obama has tried to get the business community to support his concern that the lack of approval of an increase in the debt cap would be a catastrophe (Reuters) A former head…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has found itself as the king of the mortgage mess after it decided to acquire Countrywide. By acquiring the company’s corpse rather than trying to just…
