Media Digest (4/11/2013) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
courtesy of AOL, IncToyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM), Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) and Nissan will recall 3.4 million cars over airbag defects. (Reuters) Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) faces slow…
courtesy of AOL, IncToyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM), Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) and Nissan will recall 3.4 million cars over airbag defects. (Reuters) Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) faces slow…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of March 28 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe research team at Bank of America Corp.’s (NYSE: BAC) Merrill Lynch is out looking for the market strength to continue. Keep in mind that this is not…
The first-quarter earning season begins today with the quarterly ritual of perennial lousy, or at least lackluster, earnings leading off the deluge of reports, from aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA). Investors…
ThinkstockPeople who live in nations where most residents were thin, at least as measured against the tremendous number of obese Americans, are getting fatter. Bloomberg blames this, in part, on the number…
ThinkstockEuropean Recession Worsens Just when it seemed that the economic data from the European Union could not get worse, new service sector purchasing managers index (PMI) information from Markit shows that the collapse…
ThinkstockChina has alienated U.S. companies and the federal government by what is clearly the hacking of American-based websites from inside the borders of the People’s Republic. The exact location of the hacking…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of March 15 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockThe Employee Benefit Research Institute released a study that shows what almost everyone already knows. Americans have too little money to retire, and they know it. The solution is not quite as clear…
courtesy of KFCYum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) may have saved its slide of bad news out of China with the release of its same-store sales data. On the surface it looks awful,…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 28 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…
No matter how well the general market does, the advance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average still relies on just 30 stocks. Some have outrun their current values, and drops in those shares…
courtesy of McDonald'sMcDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) probably wishes every year was a leap year. The company reported that global same-store sales fell 1.5% year-over-year in February, all because 2012 was a leap…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high this week, and the new closing high is 14,253.77. We originally came up with a top price target for the DJIA of 14,590…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 15 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…