Media Digest 5/5/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Calm water is helping manage the Gulf oil spill. Reuters: April retail sales should be up in a sign of consumer recovery. Reuters: The US is questioning Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:…
Reuters: Calm water is helping manage the Gulf oil spill. Reuters: April retail sales should be up in a sign of consumer recovery. Reuters: The US is questioning Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:…
Earnings season is slowly getting behind us for the regular quarter-end companies. But there are still many influential companies still reporting which can still move their respective sectors. Many cult stocks are…
We are seeing many key movers in the BioHealth space today as drug and biotech stocks often exhibit the most volatility of any sector. Today’s BioHealth Business Daily includes the key moves…
Reuters: Democrats may miss their goal to vote on healthcare reform. Reuters: China exports rose 46% in February. Reuters: China’s Geely raised money to buy Volvo. Reuters: Strong Chinese trade data made…
Toyota (TM) got a small taste of things to come. The company already faces a raft of class action and liability suits. Now, a suit which involves the crash of a Lexus…
There are twelve major pharmaceutical firms that dominate this industry worldwide. Their combined market value is over $1 trillion with total annual sales of over $500 billion. The firms have developed and marketed most…
Reuters: The EU summit will address the Greek bailout. Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will test an ultra-high speed broadband system. Reuters: Sweden took that top spot from the US for use of telecom…
Reuters: Dubai said the market’s perceptions of its problems is “softening.” Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) could sell $20 billion in shares soon. Reuters: Hershey (NYSE:HSY) is near a decision on Cadbury (NYSE:CBY). Reuters: …
You might think that companies tend to repurchase fewer and fewer shares in their share buyback plans when shares rise and rise. When you compare the moves from the March 9 close,…
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) barely has its Schering-Plough deal behind it. And today came the announcement of its dividend rate, but more importantly came word of a large share repurchase…
Dillard’s Inc. (NYSE: DDS) rose as high as over 10% to a yearly high of $15.79 after the department-store chain was upgraded by Deutsche Bank AG. Dress Barn Inc. (NASDAQ: DBRN)…
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) over 3% to a yearly high of $84.92. Barron’s reported that the package delivery company may rise as high as $100 dollars according to a survey of investors…
Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) returned to a profit. Reuters: The Fed will keep rates near zero for an extended period. Reuters: Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) beat forecasts. Reuters: Gold is near $1,100.
We have seen earnings from five of the thirty DJIA components this morning alone. All were above expectations, even if some of the year over year comparisons do not look that great…
We have already run the 5 of the 30 DJIA components that reported earnings this morning. But we still have 7 more of the 30 DJIA components reporting during the rest of…