Next week may be short because of a holiday, but it is going to be a very busy week for earnings. We have tried to narrow the field down to the very…
The Bell System divestiture was the final act in an epic antitrust battle between the phone company and the federal government. It caused AT&T to shed its local phone companies in 1984.…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Fed’s exit from QE2 may involve rate increases (Reuters) Deutsche Bank will restructure its US bank business to avoid regulation (WSJ) Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) new CEO will be carefully watched as…
Short sellers who have bet against tech shares hit the exits during the period which ended on March 31. The short interest in the world’s largest chip company, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), dropped 3%…
Dish Network bought the assets of Blockbuster to compete with Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), if the media is right. At about the same time, Netflix signed an arrangement to offer “Mad Men,” and…
Data mistakenly released by Epsilon compromised the personal security of millions of people including customers at Citigroup (NYSE: C), Capital One (NYSE: COF), and Tivo (NASDAQ: TIVO) (Reuters). Tepco used a number…
Using technical analysis may often feel like alchemy even under normal circumstances. Using it on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is especially tricky. Nonetheless, Apple’s stock chart has wavered for weeks. Now, Wall…
It is April Fools’ Day but we are not going to propagate any hoaxes. What we do want to revisit is some of the great frauds which have originated outside of public companies and…
A former Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) trader launched a $1 billion fund of his own (Reuters) Geithner said inflexible currencies are the world’s biggest monetary problem (Reuters) Brent rose to $116…
Consumer morale and home prices dropped sharply according to two surveys (Reuters) Gold and oil rose on concerns about Libya and the movement in equities (Reuters) The new chief of Twitter wants…
Moody’s reports that it is concerned about the financial effects of the AT&T (NYSE: T) $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile. The US telecom will take on $20 billion in debt to close…
Off-exchange traded fund BATS will go public to challenge NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ). (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has take a sex bias case against it to the Supreme…
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is seeing shares higher today on news that it will be selling the iPad2 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) at about 500 stores throughout the country. The initial…
Lennar (NYSE: LEN) received a large amount of bad press after it was disclosed that an outsider had been accused of insider trading in the company’s shares Alcatel Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) image…
America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before the middle…
