Reuters: Akio Toyoda met with Transportation Secretary LaHood. Reuters: Lloyds posted huge loss driven by bad debts. Reuters: A job creation effort is hung up in Congress again. Reuters: Blackstone (BSX) got commitments for…
Short selling is seen for many reasons, but universally traders tend to track short selling to track the biggest changes in the short interest twice each month. Whether these are hedges, forward…
There is one headline about management that almost always brings up concerns from the financial community….. CFO Resignations. GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) is paying a price this morning because CFO Catherine Smith…
Reuters: The $15 billion jobs bill advanced in the Senate. Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) faces a US criminal probe. Reuters: KKR and TPC are close to a deal to buy Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) share…
The New York Times reports that Walmart (WMT) has bought video on demand hardware and software company Vudu. The firm’s service is built into set-top boxes and Blu-ray devices. The paper reports that Vudu recently “announced…
Deciding who wins and who loses in movie rentals has proven to be a difficult task other than stating the obvious…. Online distribution and delivery distribution have major benefits over being a…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
The the Office for National Statistics said that retail sales in the UK fell 1.2% in December, more than the consensus forecast of .5%. The recession was partly to blame according to…
Reuters: The Fed will try to calm the markets after it raised the discount rate to .75%. Reuters: The head of Toyota (TM) will go to Congress to testify. Reuters: The Fed’s…
We already gave a full run-down position by position in the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) holdings as of December 31, 2009. What is interesting is that this round of 13F…
Some analysts thought that Walmart’s (WMT) earnings and outlook were a bit disappointing. They were actually excellent given the harsh retail environment in which the company operates. The fact that Walmart’s revenue…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: US regulators are looking at steering problems on the Toyota (TM) Corolla. Reuters: Greece says it is not seeking EU taxpayers’ money. Reuters: Gold fell on an IMF sale. Reuters: US state…
This is the list of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) public equity holdings as of December 31, 2009…. so these are his positions going into 2010. We have broken these into 3…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and P&G (NYSE:PG) are fed up with the violence and sexual content in television programs. The Wall Street Journal reports that they have joined forces to create a two-hour TV special…
