According to Reuters, world markets are waiting to see how the bailout of banks in Europe and the US will work. Reuters reports that Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is looking for…
According to Reuters, the US is looking at guaranteeing billions of dollars of bank debt and temporarily insuring all bank deposits. Reuters reports that Citigroup (C) has ended talks about taking over…
It would not be a good idea to look at IBM’s (IBM) superior earnings and assume that tech will have had a good third quarter and that the rest of the year…
According to Reuters, the US Treasury may buy interests in large banks following the model set up by the UK. Reuters reports that IBM’s (IBM) earnings strength helped calm tech investors. Reuters…
Yahoo! (YHOO) Concerns about slowdown in internet advertising. Drops to $13.20 from 52-week high of $34.08. Bet they wish they had taken Microsoft (MSFT) deal. Sirius (SIRI) Merger a failure.Sells off to…
Jim Cramer wants people to sell all of their stocks. Even though the market may keep falling, that might not be a practical solution for everyone. There are several things investors can…
Yahoo! (YHOO) seems to have several options to revive its moribund business, but the market is not buying them based on the portal company’s share price. The stock trades just above $15,…
It appears that every stock in the market is being crushed, but that is not entirely so. Several companies in industries not likely to be badly by a deep recession are doing…
Bloomberg is reporting that Google (GOOG) will delay its deal to sell search advertising for Yahoo! (YHOO) "until U.S. regulators can wrap up an investigation into the deal." Since The Justice Department…
According to Reuters, the House will vote on the bailout bill today. Reuters reports that JP Morgan (JPM) will not keep the CEO of WaMu. Reuters reports that John Thain of Merrill…
Updated: 31 October 2008 Not all companies and industries will be hit equally hard by the consumer credit crisis. Operations such as Procter & Gamble (PG), McDonald’s (MCD), and Wal-Mart (WMT) may…
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is probably wishing it could go back in time and take that $30+ buyout from Microsoft. Shares closed today at $15.58. That is a 52-week low and a…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is acquiring LeftHand Networks Inc., a move that takes the company further into hardware for virtualization. LeftHand provides storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network solutions to enable mid-size…
Hope dies hard. A lot of Wall St. analysts still think that earnings from the S&P 500 companies will be up in aggregate in Q4 2008 compared with the same quarter last…
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is doing something which we thought might not occur. In the full proxy materials for the annual shareholder meeting, the company has re-nominated Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)…
