Recent Posts Tagged With 'ge'

• Immelt Speaks at West Point: Future Leadership Path (GE)

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 12:22 in ge, corporate governance, conglomerates

  General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has a unique speech with what will seem like some very new direction occurring today.  Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt has prepared a speech for delivery to the United States Military Academy at West Point for its Dist...

• Media Digest 11/26/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 04:02 in ge, aig, fnm, cmcsa, tm, hsy, press digest, cby

  Reuters:   Saab’s failure to be bought shows that Chinese companies are having trouble moving into Western markets through M&A. Reuters:   AIG (NYSE:AIG) and former CEO Greenberg settled legal issues between them. Reuters:   Dubai wil...

• Options & Future Only Highlight Positive GE Research Call (GE)

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 11:27 in Options, ge, conglomerates, analyst calls

  General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has seen at least some decent trading action today, despite the softness in the market.  The stock was reaffirmed as “Overweight” at JPMorgan, but the research call sounded much more positive than the same...

• It Looks More Likely GE (GE) May Keep NBCU, Force Job Cuts

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 10:34 in media, ge, conglomerates, cmcsa, mergers and buy outs

  With the passing of each hour, there are more media reports that talks between GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi for the French company to sell its 20% of NBCU to the American conglomerate have moved closer to collapse. Without Vivendi’s cooperation, ...

• Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/20/2009) (GS)(JAVA)

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 08:01 in java, rumors, ge, ft, ibm, gs, bhp, rtp, orcl

  Updated throughout the day. GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi are at odds over the NBCU valuation  (FT) IBM (NYSE:IBM) is taking advantage of the delay in the Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) deal to be bought by Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL)  (TheStreet) The joint venture betwe...

• $1 Salary For Pandit: Citigroup Gets What It Paid For

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 04:06 in compensation, banking, ge, c, ms, msft, bac, cof, wfc, jpm

  The most charitable thing that can be said about Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup (NYSE:C) since December 11. 2007, is that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The bank’s stock is down 90% since his first day as chief executive. The s...

• Media Digest 11/18/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 03:07 in ge, pg, c, gs, msft, bac, dal, rimm, fre, sne, aig, fnm

  Reuters:   Thain regrets nothing he did at Merrill Lynch and during its merger with Bank of America (NYSE:BAC). Reuters:   Trump put his support to the bondholders of his casino business. FT:   A Chinese court ruled against Microsoft (NASDAQ:MS...

• GE No Rescue for Financial Junk Stocks (GE, FNM, FRE, AIG)

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 08:57 in ge, conglomerates, fre, aig, fnm, analyst calls, financial stocks, trading alert

  General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) may be the one single bright spot taking the market higher this Friday when you consider the 10.2% unemployment rate and when you look over the latest round of earnings. Both Oppenheimer and Bernstein raised their off...

• Larry Ellison Doesn’t Play Chicken

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 04:05 in java, Regulation, ge, yhoo, msft, orcl, hon, mergers and buy outs, ofcl

  Larry’s Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ:OFCL) does not make idle threats. He does not have to. In most games against his competition he holds the majority of the cards. He has taken over a number of businesses in his sector of the te...

• The 100 Hardest Working Brands In The World

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 16:06 in ebay, s, gis, research, hd, mat, gps, cvs, l, all, TIF, mar

  There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7 Wall St. asked Corebrand, the brand research and consulting firm, to look at the top 10...

• Unusual Options Trading Patterns (SUN, VLO, TSO, FTO, GE, GOOG, IBM, PFE, WYE)

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 13:50 in Options, goog, sun, ge, ibm, vlo, pfe, fto, tso, wye, trading alert

  We are starting to see some elevated options trading that appeared on the unusual volume screens.  Many of these are pre-earnings trading and some are on other expectations.  We have more detailed data on each over at VSinvestor.com with links on e...

• Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/12/2009) (LAZ)(F)(AAPL)

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 07:28 in rumors, ge, ms, gs, aapl, f, cmcsa, laz

  Updated throughout the day. Updated  1.39 PM EST: Charles G. Ward, III, a senior executive at Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) will be named interim CEO at the company pending the recovery of Bruce Wasserstein. (various) Updated 12.32 PM EST: Apple’s (NASDA...

• Next Week’s Top 11 Earnings (INTC, JNJ, ABT, JPM, C, GS, GOOG, IBM, BAC, GE, HAL)

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 11:33 in internet, banking, earnings, calendar, goog, ge, conglomerates, abt, ibm, c, hal, gs