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:…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Updated throughout the day. The Justice Department is looking into possible fraud involving mortgage-backed securities trading (WSJ) UAL (NASDAQ: UAUA) and Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) are closer to a merger (AP) Hewlett-Packard…
WSJ:Â Warren Buffett intends to discuss his investment in Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) at the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) annual meeting. Reuters:Â Â Federal authorities have started a criminal probe into Goldman.…
Reuters:  Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will gamble on the smartphone industry with its buyout of Palm (NADSAQ: PALM) Reuters:  The oil spill from a BP plc (NYSE: BP) rig is close to shore. Reuters:  …
Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will release a new operating system which it says will allow its customers to move around the internet more quickly and make the use of its screen dynamics easier…
Short-sellers walked away from Citigroup (NYSE: C),dropping their position by 20% in the period that ended May 15. They could not have anticipated that the Treasury would sell a huge amount of its…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
China’s tech pirates are at it again. Merchants in the People’s Republic are selling knock-of versions of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, Reuters reports. They look a bit different from the original…
In the late 1990s, shares of Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX) topped $60. When the high-tech industry imploded in 2001, Xerox shares fell to below $5. Since then the shares have risen to about…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts. Most are earnings related and this is just a select group of stocks on the move during the earnings season onslaught. …
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Reuters:  The push for a stronger yuan has been modest at the G20 meetings. Reuters:  A Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) Director Rajat Gupta told hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam about a $5 billion…
Storing files on remote servers whether those files are e-mails or medical records in a bad idea. The security the protects the data may be poor. That risks personal records, financial information,…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) traded within pennies of its 52-week high today, a sign of the optimism that the market has about the technology sector in general and especially the strength of the adoption of Window 7.…
