The European Central Bank’s members will meet against the backdrop of a pledge by President Mario Draghi to help the finances of the region through the purchase of the sovereign debt of the...
After ECB President Trichet declined to get his agency involved in the liquidity crisis among the Eurozone region, fixed income of sovereigns in the area collapsed. Economists faulted Trichet and...
Mylan Labs (MYL-NYSE) is seeing its shares take a beating because it is acquiring Merck KGaA’s generic unit and Mylan is the acquirer in what is a very leveraged buyout.  It isn’t...
Dell (DELL) paid a price that it could not defend, at least financially, for Perot (PER) earlier this month. Xerox (XRX) has decided to follow Dell down the same road by paying an extraordinary...
Source: Jon OggInvestors always seem to be looking for new good research-driven investing ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research shops and some...
NASA has released a schedule for test flights by Boeing and SpaceX for spacecraft to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX appears to have the jump on Boeing.
Bundesbank leader Jens Weidmann has been unhappy with the European Central Bank’s plan to buy sovereign debt in financially weak nations since the idea was first floated. Now, he has viciously...
Austerity is not just the antidote for the financial trouble in Europe, says ECB head Jean-Claude Trichet.  It is time for the industrial nations all to cut spending sharply and raise taxes.The ECB...
The newest Beige Book from the Federal Reserve might make you wonder why on earth quantitative easing is necessary.  Low growth is still okay, but the jobs issue is still front and center.  Will...
About those rainbow arches that frame Apple's inner-spaceship stage...
In remarks this morning in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans offered a strong endorsement of last week’s FOMC decision to begin a third round of quantitative...
Hasbro reported better-than-expected quarterly results before the markets opened on Wednesday.
Source: Jon OggAdobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) has reported earnings which met expectations on the surface.  The non-GAAP report was $0.57 in earnings per share on sales of $1.05 billion. ...