It was back in January, nearly a year ago, after the Congressional Budget Office released its 2010 budget when we called for the U.S. to adopt a Deficit Manifesto.  This called for lawmakers to...
Saks Inc. (NYSE: SKS) reported an adjusted second-quarter net loss of $0.05 and $704 million in revenues before markets opened this morning. In the same period a year ago, the luxury department store...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced today that it is converting its long-time Hotmail web email to another long-time Microsoft brand: Outlook. The new brand, outlook.com, will tie the...
On TheStreet.com’s "Wall Street Confidential," Cramer noted several things.  Cramer thinks that SAP (SAP) and AMD (AMD) are both challenged.  He thinks the AMD price war has...
Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is being mentioned in TheStreet.com, New York Times, the WSJ, and elsewhere as either “filing for bankruptcy protection” or that it was “near to...
From AAO Weblog This in from Sydney, Australia via WebCPA: actor Paul Hogan, a.k.a. “Crocodile Dundee,” has been linked to an Australian investigation of tax fraud. “According to the newspaper...
Cramer on today’s STOP TRADING on CNBC said that the sub-prime mortgage is bad gone worse.  Neither New Century (NEW) nor others are good but they are not the size of a large financial...
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer discussed the rumors making the rounds about New Century (NEW) potentially filing for Chapter 11 protection after an activist hedge fund...
From William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Given the sales weakness in the wireless semiconductor chain, you might wonder whether inventory is also piling up at Broadcom (BRCM). Broadcom says Q4...
It didn’t take long for Germany to respond to a report from the European Commission proposing that the European Stability Mechanism be empowered to lend directly to banks. From Market News...
Two Chinese car companies are about to buy Saab, but that hardly ensures that anyone will purchase cars from the nearly defunct manufacturer.“Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile and Pang Da...
Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco.   Twitter may swipe everything else.Officials in San Francisco last week approved a 6-year exemption from what the San Francisco Chronicle...
By Chad Brand of The Peridot Capitalist Take This Retirement Quiz To Get Matched With An Advisor Now (Sponsored) Are you ready for retirement? Planning for retirement can be overwhelming, that’s...
If you have used Twitter you either love it or can’t wait to get off it.  Social networking meets micro-blogging.The company just closed on another round of funding, although it basically swears...