Greeks will vote on planned austerity, which could wreck the chances of a conclusion to the bailout. (Reuters) China’s PMI falls to the lowest level since early 2009. (Reuters) Chemical and defense…
Newspaper companies are in deep trouble again, and it is not because of the economy exclusively. Ad dollars have moved to online media fast enough so the slide in newspaper revenues is…
Updated throughout the day. Cerberus and Chatham Trust will buy Innkeepers USA (Reuters) Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will license “Gossip Girl” and other premium content from CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner (NYSE:…
Europe begins to more aggressively look for problems to its debt crisis as pressure from the rest of the world grows. (Reuters) Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new tablet PC may be a serious…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Amerisafe, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSF) named Bear of the Day at…
A federal judge has ruled that music locker service MP3tunes has, in fact, infringed on the copyrights owned by music companies by allowing users to use a program to locate music on…
Time Warner (NYSE: TWC) to buy Insight Communications from Carlyle for $3 billion. (Reuters) Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) expects holiday sales to be strong. (Reuters) Security experts say hackers may make Google…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray. DaVita,…
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)…
Yahoo! Finance: Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July http://yhoo.it/o19CLBY Yahoo! Finance: MasterCard posts 33 percent 2Q profit increase http://yhoo.it/mRgmIz $MA Reuters Biz: Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July: ADP…
Douglas A. McIntyre 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…
Democrats and Republicans are not closer to a deal on the debt ceiling (Reuters) The hacking scandal has pushed News Corp’s shares (NYSE: NWS) even lower (Reuters) Moody’s suggested that the U.S.…
The “services sector” is almost too broad to be counted when screens are conducted. Throwing in publishers, media, cable, travel, restaurants, auto-parts and advertising into a single screen feels like a kitchen…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Cut to Neutral at BofA/ML. Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) Reiterated…
This week marks the beginning of the end of corporate earnings season for the first quarter of 2011. Many off-calendar quarters will be seen starting next week or the week after. Wednesday…
