White House Photo by Pete SouzaThe improvement in stock prices has done nothing to bring the investment in equities by individuals higher at all. As a matter of fact, participation in stock…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of AOL, IncChina’s trade surplus is better than expected in April. (Reuters) With inflation below Federal Reserve targets, the central bank may have to increase bond buying. (Reuters) Some hedge funds…
ThinkstockThe U.S. government accuses China of stealing military secrets. (Reuters) Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to upgrade Windows 8 to boost sales. (Reuters) New York state will file charges against Bank of…
TwitterTwitter has added an investment banker to its staff. This has prompted speculation that the company may begin the process for an initial public offering. Of course, investors could be gun-shy after the…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockSlow EU Economic Recovery Europe believes that it is doing poorly, financially. The European Commission (EC) put out its forecast for gross domestic product (GDP) activity for this year and next. This…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning, buoyed by a smaller-than-expected total of new claims for unemployment benefits in the U.S. (more coverage here). The U.S. trade deficit also fell while unit…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsThe corporate earnings report from Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has shares trading higher the day after the report. Many analysts have keyed in discussing many metrics, but the…
Jon C. Ogg courtesy of Facebook Inc.Lehman Bros. sues Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) over $1 billion in seized collateral. (Reuters) Glencore continues to push to buy Xstrata. (Reuters) Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) mobile business shoots…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has released its first-quarter corporate earnings results. The social media giant reported earnings of $0.12 per share or $563 million on $1.46 billion in revenue.…
Jon C. Ogg U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a weaker-than-expected employment report from ADP and concern that Friday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will follow the ADP lead (more coverage…
courtesy of Google Inc.Digital media research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released its ranking of the top 50 U.S. web properties for March and the list is topped, once again, by…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockChairman and Chief Executive Officer Zuckerber of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) may not care about what his base pay is. His stock holdings in the social network are enough to make him…
Douglas A. McIntyre U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning after hearing that U.S. GDP growth in the first quarter came in at 2.5%, well below the expected 3.1% (more coverage here). U.S. consumer sentiment…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Friday, April 26, 2013. They include Amazon, Boeing, eBay, SunPower and Anheuser-Busch InBev.
courtesy of YouTubeVarious sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew nearly 154 million unique viewers in March. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) clocked in with nearly 64 million unique viewers…
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