24/7 Wall St. chose the ten most important pieces of news for major US corporations so far this year. Our evaluation was based on the history of the company and industry involved…
coutesy of Exxon Mobile Corp.The oil majors will be reporting reserves replacement figures for 2010 over the next few weeks as they prepare their 10-Ks for the SEC. ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE: COP)…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 31, 2010. That makes these his new 2011 holdings and there…
Media reports questioning whether the United States will keep its “Triple-A Rating” in the future are frequent. The fear of endless budget deficit spending and quantitative easing have only added fuel to…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
The land rush to acquire and develop shale gas deposits remains as competitive as ever. But the way that the gas is extracted threatens to put a crimp in development of shale…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at Stern Agee.…
The price of a barrel of North Sea Brent crude broke through $100 this morning, while the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate is hovering around $90. Does that mean…
coutesy of Exxon Mobile Corp.Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) is helping to stabilize stocks this morning after Big Oil reported its 2010 and fourth quarter earnings. The largest fully integrated oil and…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 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…
Corporation are now sitting on billions and billions of dollars in their corporate treasuries. They are keeping their share prices higher by returning capital to shareholders. Most are certainly not hiring large…
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings will be hurt by slowing PC sales .(Reuters) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to cut the dividend on their preferred shares. The money goes to the Treasury…
Last week we began a series of companies which we expect will raise their dividends in 2011. It was the first piece of a series and there are many other companies which…
Whether or not the 1,700-mile Keystone XL that would transport crude oil from Canada’s oil sands to the US Gulf coast is necessary all depends on one’s point of view. Some, mostly…
There are many new characters in this week’s installment of “The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead.” We have tracked news and added color on each where applicable. The cast of characters…
