Updated throughout the day News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has expanding an internal investigation into reporting practices at its UK papers (Reuters) Douglas A. McIntyre
Douglas A. McIntyre Most companies want to be number one in their markets. Once there, however, they have trouble keeping the top spot for long. They are flanked by smaller, nimbler companies that have better…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may spin off its PC business because it bought enterprise software firm Autonomy for $10.3 billion. (Reuters) News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) begins to prepare for the possibility that James…
SABMiller makes a hostile bid for Foster’s Group. (Reuters) The Swiss National Bank says the franc is overvalued. (Reuters) News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) management under more pressure as a reporter says News…
Risk in Europe continues to drag on global shares. (Reuters) Concerns about how S&P (NYSE: MHP) sets rating bring calls for reform. (Reuters) Rules on CME (NASDAQ: CME) margins move gold lower.…
Short sellers moved into bank stocks ahead of the sell-off based on data for the period that ended July 29. Shares sold short in JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) rose 17% to 33.6 million.…
Earnings season is still going strong, but we are now getting into the late-cycle companies which have a one-month lag to their earnings reports. Several key stocks are due this next week…
Hitachi and Mitsubishi may merge (Reuters) Japan intervened in the yen (Reuters) Spain will offer bonds and the European Central Bank meets to examine option to help the country’s debt problems (Reuters)…
24/7 Wall St. usually looks for the companies with upcoming events in the week ahead. During earnings season, we generally feature companies only with non-earnings events. This is our list of “The…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) posted strong results, but Windows revenue may continue to drop as PC sales fade (Reuters) The Justice Department will look into whether the advertising operations of News Corp (NYSE:…
There has been enough good news about News Corp in the last two days that the stock appears headed back to the level where it traded before the phone hacking scandal caused…
Germany and France reached a deal on how to handle the Greek debt crisis (MarketWatch) China’s PMI growth rate slowed to the lowest level since July 2010 (MarketWatch) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said its revenue fell last quarter to a large extent because of a drop in its display advertising. The trend will spread to other websites with smaller audience size…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported better than expected earnings and its shares soared (Reuters) Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue fell (Reuters) A settlement of the debate over the U.S. debt pushed crude higher…
Updated throughout the day. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has considered replacing Rupert Murdoch (Reuters) American Air (NYSE: AMR) will probably order a large number of Airbus jets (WSJ) AIG (NYSE: AIG)…
