President Obama will host a meeting for a number of large company CEOs in Washington this week. The heads of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and PepsiCo (NYSE:…
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) has a long history of operating in Russia. It is about to get much deeper into the country. This morning came the announcement that PepsiCo is going to…
Jon C. Ogg For years now, The Economist has computed its Big Mac index, a measure of purchasing power parity in the countries in which Big Macs from McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) are sold. The…
These are some of this Tuesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) Started as Buy at Goldman Sachs. Bucyrus International (NASDAQ:…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking moves in Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), BioFuel Energy Corp.…
Next week will mark the unofficial start of earnings season. While it will take another week or two for earnings to get into full swing, there are many key companies with earnings…
Defensive stocks are supposed to hold up in down stock markets. That isn’t so today. In our list of 17 defensive stocks we routinely track, none were positive today. On average, the…
Raging fires and severe drought in Russia have led to the government imposing a temporary ban on wheat exports beginning August 15th. The country claims to have sufficient stocks, but cannot afford…
These are some of the top research calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen by Wall Street analysts this Wednesday morning: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. Dialysis…
There are three things investors traditionally want after making huge gains when they still want to hold stocks. They want stocks that have dividends and may want ‘value stocks.’ But the largest…
Earnings season is off to the races, even if Friday was a curve-ball for the markets and for reactions to earnings. Most of the big stocks are off on Wall Street scandal…
Reuters: The Obama health care bill passed the House and Senate. Reuters: The Senate will begin a fight on financial reform Reuters: Arrow agreed to a buyout from Shell (RDS.A) and PetroChina (PTR).…
No matter what legislation comes out of the frenzied health care debate, economists say that it will cost the American taxpayer a great deal. Estimates run the gamut from the Obama administration’s claim…
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter…
Reuters: China took a hard position on the value of the yuan despite US pressure. Reuters: Google’s (GOOG) ad partners in China expressed concerns about its plans. Reuters: If banking laws change,…
