White House Photo by Pete SouzaStaggering iTunes Sales iTunes song sales have reached a number that is more than three times the world’s population. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reinvented the music distribution, but…
courtesy of NetflixBrief government spending cuts brought on by disagreements in Congress could badly hurt the economy. (Reuters) Earnings at Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) are fueled by cable…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning before bouncing into positive territory briefly and then turning south again. As happened yesterday, the focus was on Europe, where Italy’s oldest bank was expected to reveal…
thinkstockNed Davis Research has keyed in on Europe, joining in the long line of economic outlooks for 2013. The news is good for those who want some resolution and recovery in Europe. It is…
thinkstockThe World Bank has just released its latest Commodity Market Outlook and the short version of the report is that commodity prices should “ease marginally” this year. But as the report notes in its…
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch has made some key changes to its various US research portfolios over the last 30 days. In a research change summary the bulge-bracket firm summarized its changes for capital preservation,…
ThinkstockThe latest reading from the HSBC Emerging Markets Index shows that the index rose from 53 in December to 53.9 in January, the best reading since February 2012 and within shouting distance of the…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe stock market is down Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.26%, the Nasdaq down 0.35% and the S&P 500 down 0.22%. Today’s winners include a paper company…
In case you missed it, 3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) became the most recent Dow Jones Industrial Average member to boost its dividend. It also raised its share buyback ambitions. Investors should be aware that…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall S. research calls. We have calls in banks, solar, tech, biotech and more. Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI)…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.One of the strengths of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), perhaps second to its one billion users, is the amount of time people spend on the social network. That length of time…
ThinkstockHackers Hit the Fed Hackers have scored another victory in a series that has extended from Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) China site, to the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) site, to The Wall…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Liberty Global Inc. (NASDAQ: LBTYA) will buy U.K. cable firm Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ: VMED) for $15.75 billion. (Reuters) Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (NYSE: RBS) expects LIBOR penalties in the hundreds…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMany stocks are on the move, and almost of the key movers have been on corporate earnings report except for one. We have blown through some of the news in…
courtesy of ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) closed up 7% ahead of earnings today, following a rating change to Buy from analysts at BofA/Merrill Lynch. Now we have the earnings, and the fourth quarter’s results…