12:14pm ET
Investing
Kellogg’s Nabs Pringles (K, PG, DMND)
Cereal maker Kellogg Co. (NYSE: K) has offered $2.7 billion for the Pringles business of Proctor & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG). The offer follows hard on the heels of the withdrawal of…
PG Coverage Page 72
5:05pm ET
Industrials
Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett’s Stock Holdings ‘L to Z’ (BRK-B, BRK-A, LMCA, MA, MTB, MCO, PG, SNY, TMK, USB, USG, UPS, VRSK, V, WMT, WPO, WFC)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 31, 2011. We have included some accompanying notes on each and…
10:35am ET
Investing
Diamond Foods Is Just Awful… And Not Yet Over (DMND, PG)
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is now an at-risk company. The fears about the audit committee’s findings are as bad or worse than what the skeptics were expecting, and the news just…
Jon C. Ogg 5:12pm ET
Investing
The Sum of All Fears Hits Diamond Foods (DMND, PG)
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is a story that just goes from negative to bad to worse to just plain awful. The maker of nuts and almond products has reported that it…
Jon C. Ogg 1:51pm ET
Investing
AT&T Next in Line for Low Bond Yields (T, IBM, PG)
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is planning to issue a benchmark offering of 3-, 5-, and 10-year notes as coupons on corporate bonds are approaching the record low of 3.45% set last August.…
6:53am ET
Special Report
Ten Cheap Products Making American Companies Billions
Just because certain products have a low price tag does not mean they cannot sell for billions of dollars. In fact, some of the cheapest products make the most money for their…
4:07pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (BBY, SD, ALL, JCP, KIM, AEP, CVX, D, F, HON, PG, SOA, CPHD, INFI, NRGY, RVBD)
All three major US indexes opened lower this morning following the report that US GDP grew by 2.8% in the fourth quarter. A rise of 3% was expected. Combined with the lack…
7:20am ET
Companies and Brands
An Earnings Breather For Consumer Products (PG, KMB, CL)
Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has reported earnings for its second quarter and the consumer products giant has turned in earnings of $0.57 EPS but the normalized earnings was $1.10 EPS on…
4:08pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (COP, SIRI, GOOG, PG, AMGN, HAL, TWIN, PETS, MFN, GDP, CBRX, SR, RIMG)
Equity markets opened slightly higher this morning but trailed off to negative territory in the late morning. By late afternoon, the NASDAQ composite and the S&P 500 were flirting with a positive…
12:56pm ET
Investing
11 DJIA Reporting Earnings This Week (DD, JNJ, MCD, TRV, VZ, BA, UTX, T, CVX, PG)
This coming week is going to be yet another action packed week of big corporate earnings which will move markets or will move their sectors. 24/7 Wall St. has identified each of…
8:28am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMGN, CMA, COP, GOOG, JIVE, JCI, NUVA, PG, PHM, RIMM, SN, SIRI, VPHM)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. Amgen Corporation (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan. Comerica…
3:34pm ET
Industrials
11 DJIA Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (DD, JNJ, MCD, TRV, VZ, BA, UTX, T, CVX, PG)
The coming week is going to be yet another action packed week of big corporate earnings which will move markets or will move their sectors. 24/7 Wall St. has identified the DJIA…
5:16pm ET
Investing
More Trouble Mounts at Diamond Foods (DMND, PG)
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) has gone from a story of great growth to growing pain. And in the scenario of the latter, shares are getting spanked on news from the Wall Street…
Jon C. Ogg 6:55am ET
Special Report
2012’s Most Profitable American Companies
Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to pass Exxon Mobil…
6:41am ET
Special Report
The Most Popular American Companies in China
The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture…