Obama called for a spending freeze for some government discretionary spending. (Reuters) The Federal Reserve will probably stick to it plans to buy bonds and noted economic improvement. (Reuters) Toyota Motor (NYSE:…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) said ailing CEO Benmosche will remain through 2012. (Reuters) The Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee has referred several cases of potential law violations from the credit crisis to authorities inside…
Earnings season is in full swing and we have a back-breaker of an earnings week ahead of us. There are some 11 DJIA components reporting earnings and a whole slew of other…
Earnings season is in full swing and we have at least 11 of the 30 DJIA components on deck to report earnings. We have given basic previews broken out by day for…
The press made a great deal of the change in command at the top of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). It is hardly a change at all. The new CEO of the giant search…
As if any more evidence were needed that the mobile internet is the next big thing, research firm comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today reported that web-based email usage is declining while mobile…
A report from Bloomberg this morning has got the online gaming world abuzz. Bloomberg cites “two people with knowledge of the plans” who say that an updated PlayStation Portable, or PSP, handheld…
There are several ways to rank America’s most widely followed public companies. They could be ranked by annual sales, brand value, market capitalization, number of customers, or profits. Another approach is to…
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai reported shocking data, at last for companies that have never done business in China. In its 2010–2011 China Business Report, the organization reports that: Issues related…
Douglas A. McIntyre The $700 million acquisition of ITA Software by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been opposed by other travel sites practically from the moment it was announced in July 2010. Now, Bloomberg is…
The Kinect version of Xbox 360 sold eight million units the first 60 days it was on the market. Kinect sales should have improved as the holiday season progressed. That did not…
The heads of several major investment banks attempted to sell their services of an AIG (NYSE: AIG) plan to pay off money it owes taxpayers (Reuters) Forecasts from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) helped…
Is Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system more vulnerable to security flaws than the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone as Trend Micro CEO Steve Chang claims? Who knows? But that didn’t stop Bloomberg…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Outperform at FBR. Apollo Group Inc.…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) will meet banks to choose those that will handle the sale of the Treasury’s share in the company. (Reuters) With a split Congress it is less likely that there…
