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:…
WSJ: Warren Buffett intends to discuss his investment in Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) at the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) annual meeting. Reuters: Federal authorities have started a criminal probe into Goldman.…
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…
These are ten of the top analyst calls seen so far this Monday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) Cut to Hold at…
There are almost too many key stocks to note as pre-market movers this morning because of the floodgates of earnings news. We have covered some of the larger volume and price movers…
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) margins must be under pressure. In its latest earnings report its said that its forecast the global handset market was intact. It also said it market share would rise to…
Less than two years ago Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) was a $150 stock. Recently, however, pressure from new smartphones, particularly the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, taken together with the general…
Reuters: The costs of the US bailout of the financial industry was $89 billion. Reuters: Goldman Sachs (GS) and AIG (AIG) are unwinding their CDS positions. Reuters: The euro surged on news…
Reuters: The Fed once again pledged low interest rates. Reuters: If the yuan rises, the euro may be badly hurt. Reuters: Soda companies are hurt by the economy according to AlixPartners. Reuters: …
These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen this Wednesday morning from Wall Street research calls: AGA Medical Holdings (NASDAQ: AGAM) Started as Outperform at Baird. Align Technology (NASDAQ: ALGN) Reiterated…
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler’s CEO in 1979, worked for $1 a year while his company paid back taxpayers $1.2 billion in loan guarantees. Edward Liddy, former CEO of Allstate (ALL), was paid $1…
Updated throughout the day. Merrill Lynch warned the SEC and Fed that Lehman was booking capital aggressively (FT) Apax Partner may buy Polycom (PLCM) for as much as $3 billion (FT) Palm (PALM), just…
Average: “an estimation of or approximation to an arithmetic mean”–Webster Among the public companies in the handset business which trade on US exchanges, Nokia (NOK) has performed the most poorly over the…
On the tenth anniversary of the tech bubble of 2000, short sellers aggressively dropped their bets against hardware, software and internet companies. Figures are from February 28. The short interest in Apple…
The Holy Grail of consumer electronics devices is one that would combine the best features of the Apple (AAPL) iPad, iPod, and iPhone. Sony (SNE) means to introduce products to challenge the…
