Several experts estimate that as many as 130 million shoppers will visit stores or online retail sites on Black Friday. The number is deceiving. The National Retail Federation expects the holiday sales…
via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping to take the guesswork out of making hit movies. According to the Wall Street Journal, the world’s largest Internet retailer is setting up a…
Updated throughout the day. India and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are closer to settling their Blackberry communications dispute (Reuters) Wal-mart (NYSE: WMT) is closer to the purchase of Indonesia retailer Matahari.…
Douglas A. McIntyre The GM IPO may be the largest in US history (Reuters) Fed officials defended their plan to lower rates (Reuters) Bonds issues by Ireland may have great value in the case of…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
This morning brought earnings from two key DJIA components. The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) are seeing similar trends and the two are seeing similar reactions…
The demand for GM stock may push the price per share of the IPO to $33. (Reuters) Rolls Royce began to build more engines to replace faulty ones on Airbus A380s. (Reuters)…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on September 30, 2010. The changes were big on the first two lists but more static on…
The list of Unusual Suspects for the week ahead is a rather different list. Some are due with earnings, some have FDA events, and others just have shareholder specific events coming down…
So much for thinking that earnings season was over. Next week we have a another round of earnings, with the big focus being retail mixed with some technology earnings. On deck is…
Updated throughout the day. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) may buy Indonesia retailer Matahari (Reuters) The Obama administration will create an online privacy czar (WSJ) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may cut its job force (WSJ)…
Douglas A. McIntyre EU officials tried to reassure capital markets about Ireland’s viability. (Reuters) Yahoo ! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said a report it would lay of 20% of staff was “misleading.” (Reuters) Newsweek and The Daily…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for November 11, 2010. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
Walmart.com (NYSE:WMT) began to offer free shipping today on many items such as electronics, toys and jewelry. Most of the products in the program are not available in stores. The gambit is…
The US has tried to hold together discussions on currency and trade among unruly members of the G20 conference in Seoul. (Reuters) Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) grim outlook stunned investors. (Reuters) The US…
