Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) posted strong results. Reuters: Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) Lewis will skip 2009 pay. Reuters: Japan Airlines says bankruptcy is an option to solving its problems. Reuters: Soros says…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) each reported better-than-expected earnings. Wall St.’s reaction to the Google numbers was muted and its stock moved up 3% to $547. IBM raised its guidance for the year, but…
Too many companies want to compete with Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) relatively successful Kindle unit, although investors are concerned that the devices, priced at $249, will never have mass market appeal. Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) is…
Reuters: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is having trouble justifying its huge bonuses. Reuters: Bruce Wasserstein, M&A giant and head of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ), died. Reuters: Congress will probe compensation at AIG (NYSE:AIG). Reuters: US foreclosures fell…
The newspaper industry must be looking up. Recently, Gannett (NYSE:GCI) said its last quarter was better than expected. Today, The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) said it would keep The Boston Globe which has…
Bruce Wasserstein, one of the great M&A bankers in Wall St. history and CEO of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) died at age 61. His passing leaves open the eventual fate of his two premier media properties…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is literally within 20 points of the psychological DJIA 10,000 mark. We have not seen Dow-10K since October, 2008, but that month we saw 11,000 and saw under 8,000…
24/7 Wall St. interviewed Ed “>Yardeni to talk about trends in the economy and the signs he looks for to help determine what he thinks is likely to happen in the global economy over the…
Reuters: Aggressive trading in gold in China may be pushing the price of the metal up. Reuters: Blackstone’s (NYSE:BX) CEO says the worst of the crisis is over. Reuters: The House has begun to…
Last week the SEC announced that it intended to appeal the dismissal of insider trading charges against Mark Cuban. Cuban is accused of having sold his stake in Mamma.com after the company’s chief executive officer…
Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer may want to reconsider being part of an effort to buy BusinessWeek. A report fromPaidContent says “the multimedia business media giant is working as a strategic partner in the…
The author was a member of the board of directors of TheStreet.com from 2000 to 2005. One of the major concerns of the board was what would happen if Jim Cramer left the company…
Reuters: The healthcare plan is about to take a step forward in Congress. Reuters: The debt swap at CIT (NYSE:CIT) is in trouble and could cause bankruptcy. Reuters: Summers says Obama policies saved economy.
We have many key technology stocks reporting earnings this coming week. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) will start things off to give us a read on semiconductors and PCs. International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM). Google…
GE (NYSE:GE) investors are thrilled that the conglomerate may be able to rid itself of its underperforming media unit, NBC Universal. It appears that GE is close to a deal with cable giant Comcast…