Americans have known that we have had a health care crisis since our country was created. We have chosen to depend on doctors and nurses and hospitals to provide care in times…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: The retirement package for Ken Lewis of Bank of America (BAC) may be as high as $125 million. Reuters: US car sales plunged in September with Ford (F) up and GM…
A devilishly clever new Trojan horse that works over the Internet can hack into bank accounts while people are online and take money without being noticed. According to CNET, “The bank Trojan, dubbed…
Reuters: China celebrated 60 years of communist rule as a capitalist economy. Reuters: The IMF cut global debt write-offs to $3.4 trillion. Reuters: CIT (CIT) is close to a deal to give…
The Administration made its decision two weeks ago to put extremely large tariffs on tires from China, an action that the government of the world’s most populous nation will likely take through…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Motley Fool is one of the twenty most visited financial sites in the US according to comScore with monthly unique visitors of 1.536 million last month, making it slightly bigger than…
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon (AMZN), is known for being eccentric, but his new handset offer may be taking that act a bit too far. Every cellphone that operates…
These are the top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Monday morning: Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Started as Buy at Jefferies. Celgene (CELG) raised to Outperform at R.W.Baird.…
The New York Times has joined a long line of media and analysts who say that Amazon (AMZN) will menace bricks-and-mortar superstore retailers the way that it did the traditional book shops…
Janet L. Yellen is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a voting member of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee. She is highly pessimistic about an economic…
China voiced unusually strong objections to tariffs put on its tire exports to the US. The American government believes that the Chinese are targeting the industry which is costing US jobs. Labor…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) presented today at the Goldman Sachs retail conference. This was one of the new CEO Mike Duke’s first presentations since taking the top position at the world’s…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: The sell-off in Chinese stocks may be overdone based on earnings. Reuters: A report blamed the SEC for not doing its job investigating Madoff. Reuters: The Fed says the risks to…
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA? And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers. Maybe it is…
The recent news about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) increasing third party item selling via the Walmart.com shopping portal is getting some increased traction…. But the question is really, “Should it?”… The…