Reuters:Â Â Bank of Japan moved rates to zero Reuters:Â Â September retail sales were probably up due to promotions. Reuters:Â Â Obama said the fiscal situation was untenable. Reuters:Â Â Twitter appointed a new CEO.…
Reuters:Â Â The American Sociology Review said a group of mortgages aimed at racially segregated neighborhoods helped cause the mortgage crisis. Reuters:Â Â Sanofi-Aventis made an $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ). Reuters:Â Â …
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Allied Irish Bank plc (NYSE: AIB) Cut To Neutral From Buy By Goldman Sachs…
Nearly every stock and ADR/ADS of European banking stocks are lower so far on Tuesday over concerns over debt levels and downside levels of recent stress tests not factoring in the right…
When historians write the definitive account of the Great Recession in coming decades, one of the major questions they will tackle is why the government decided to allow Lehman Brothers go bankrupt…
Reuters:Â Â BP plc (NYSE: BP) has made final plans to plug its well. Reuters:Â Â The dollar index fell to a three-month low due to a slowing economy. Reuters:Â Â Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:…
Reuters:Â Â UBS (NYSE: UBS) and Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) posted good earnings. Reuters:Â Â The EU opened antitrust investigations into IBM (NYSE: IBM) Reuters:Â Â Ask.com, owned by IACI (NASDAQ: IACI), will use humans…
Reuters:  Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) beat Wall St. expectations but it stock did not move. Reuters:  The pay czar will criticize Goldman Sachs Group, Citigroup (NYSE: C), and JPMorgan Chase…
Reuters:Â Â Credit rating agencies will not be heavily regulated under the new financial reform bill. Reuters:Â Â AT&T (NYSE: T) had privacy problems with its iPhone 4 order system. Reuters:Â Â The EU, IMF,…
Update throughout the day. The head of global markets for UBS in Asia is leaving. IFR “Citigroup sold a series of mortgage-linked securities without disclosing that Morgan Stanley helped shape them while…
Updated throughout the day. The NY Attorney General is probing the relationship between eight banks and ratings agencies. The financial firms include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Crédit Agricole…
The Wall Street Journal reports that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) and UBS AG are under investigation for allegedly having “misled investors about their roles…
NYT:Â Â NY Attorney General is investigating eight banks for allegedly providing misleading information about mortgage instruments to rating agencies: The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), Morgan Stanley(NYSE: MS), Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB),…
Reuters:Â Â The Senate will begin to vote on the financial reform bill. Reuters:Â Â Regulators are considering an antitrust case against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reuters:Â Â Tensions between Germany and France over the Greek…
How much does it cost to clean up the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy mess? Hundreds of millions of dollars, apparently. The firm that provides the liquidation service for the court, Alvarez & Marsal,…
