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…
Reuters: Ebay (EBAY) will sell Skype to private investors. Reuters: China’s manufacturing index gained. Reuters: A late Labor Day will hurt August retail sales. Reuters: A US judge ruled against AIG (AIG)…
Wal-Mart (WMT) does not care if it has been burned by its past efforts to try to get affluent shoppers. The world’s largest retailer has been known for years as catering to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: HP (HP) issued optimistic guidance. Reuters: China is investing in the private housing sector. Reuters: Buffett says the US is on a slow path to recovery. Reuters: US regulators urged Citigroup…
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street firms we have seen early this Monday morning: Ariad Pharma (NASDAQ: ARIA) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK)…