The number of shares Facebook will sell rose 25% and the company could raise as much as $16 billion. (Reuters) Greeks take hundreds of millions of dollars out of banks there and…
Shareholder activist firm Relational Investors has bought $600 million of PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) shares according to The Wall Street Journal. Large companies are not immune from the kind of attacks recently experience…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of March 31,…
A stock market that sells off eight of nine days is not a good market. Even the Facebook IPO is being viewed as a one-off item rather than a systemic item which…
24/7 Wall St. asked CoreBrand to identify America’s hottest brands. We wanted to know the biggest brands that were the best known and most well regarded. Read: America’s Hottest Brands Generally, most…
Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ: MNST) is looking like a monster all on its own after earnings this morning. The specialty energy drink maker is seeing shares rise in the double-digit percentages after…
Blame whatever you want. A weaker U.S. economy, a weakening and flailing Europe, a move to socialism in France and Greece, a weaker BRIC and emerging market story, commodity prices and on…
This weekend has perhaps the most widely followed annual meeting from any public company in America as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will have its shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. …
Several CEOs and founders of well-known American companies have complete control over their companies. Through voting power, they control the boards and strategic decisions of these corporations. The best current example is…
China’s PMI rises to a 13-month high. (Reuters) BP (NYSE: BP) profits fall as it sells some assets to pay for the Gulf spill. (Reuters) New York state pension funds vote against…
When the largest soft-drink company in the US can’t make a competitive product in a growing market, it looks around for a company it can buy. It appears that the Coca-Cola Co.…
This was a huge week in dividends, particularly for the key DJIA components. We had a report calling for more and more dividend hikes of about 8% from the DJIA components in…
Soft drink and snack food giant Pepsico Inc. (NYSE: PEP) reported first quarter earnings this morning that topped expectations. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.69 versus a consensus estimate of $0.67 and…
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is going to try a new strategy that we have not seen from the company since literally the 1990s… It is splitting its shares. The company’s board…
Dividends have continued to rise. Better yet, they are expected to keep rising for the rest of the year. A study from Dow Jones Indexes showed a rise of almost 2.2% so…
