Apple (AAPL) Reveals Details on US Data Surveillance Requests
US tech giant Apple (AAPL) received over the last six months between 4,000 and 5,000 surveillance requests from U.S. law enforcement about its customers, the company... Read »
Wall Street Is Pushing Risk Again
Despite bringing the economy to the brink of collapse in 2008 with excessively risky investments, Wall Street appears to have learned nothing from this near-death... Read »
Too-Big-To-Fail Mortgage Racket
Not that we needed any further evidence of the racketeering enterprises run within the mortgage operations on Wall Street, but with the recently delivered testimony... Read »
Lack of a Prenup Imperils Oil Billionaire’s Fortune – CLR
The divorce of oil baron Harold Hamm has had its dramatic moments. Among them: allegations that Harold was unfaithful – and a heated debate over whether the... Read »
Apple (AAPL) Eyeing iPhone ‘phablets’
News agency Reuters is reporting that Apple (AAPL) is exploring the possibility of building at least two bigger iPhones next year, one with a 4.7-inch screen and... Read »
Forex Manipulation: Add It To The List
Is it possible to manipulate the largest market in the world, that being, the foreign exchange market? Well, if it is possible to manipulate the setting of overnight... Read »
Tesla Motors (TSLA): Buy, Sell or Hold?
Tesla Motors‘ (TSLA) price target raised to $118 from $70 at Robert W. Baird drew heated sentiment from the CNBC’s “Fast Money” traders Wednesday. OptionMonster’s... Read »
2008-Style Crisis Can Still Happen – John Thain
John Thain, former chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch and COO at Goldman Sachs (GS), told Bloomberg Television’s Erik Schatzker and Sara Eisen on “Market... Read »
Apple’s (AAPL) iOS Revamp Positive for the Stock: Goldman Sachs
Analysts for Goldman Sachs (GS) said in a research note yesterday that Apple‘s (AAPL) re-designing of its operating system, which is the biggest since the... Read »
Apple (AAPL) Thinks Small
So this is what passes for game changing after Jobs? The Business Insider’s summary of Apple’s (AAPL) new iOS 7 operating system: Control Center: This menu... Read »
The SEC’s Race To Restore Municipal Bond Integrity
Creativity has its place. That place is not the financial reports of states and municipalities. At least it shouldn’t be, although as Wall Street Journal columnist... Read »
Google (GOOG) Out-Navigates Facebook, Buys Waze for $1.3 Billion
Google (GOOG) is close to buying mapping and navigations group Waze Inc. for around $1.3 billion, the Israeli-based Globes business newspaper reported on Sunday,... Read »
Dark Pools Under Assault
Dark pools are under a regulatory and legislative assault, in Europe, Canada, and the US. Scott Patterson wrote a long piece in the WSJ about FINRA’s scrutiny... Read »
Top Ten Dividend Paying Stocks in Today’s Market
With dividend payout ratios at near historic lows, more and more investors are including a yield element to their portfolios. But with so many dividend-paying names... Read »
Commodities: A Rerun of That ‘70s Show?
Thanks to the life support of $12 trillion and 515 rate cuts by the world’s central banks since March 2009, the global economy’s heart is beginning to beat again.... Read »
Meet your New Landlord – Wall Street
At the risk of shooting fish in a barrel, I’m going to offer some thoughts on investment in single-family real estate, particularly the recent rush into the sector... Read »
The Markets are Always one Move Ahead of Everyone Else
In recent weeks we’ve been treated to an almost non-stop set of finance news headlines, indicating stocks either rose or fell on rumors of when the Fed will scale... Read »
Fannie & Freddie May Finally be Headed for that Great By-and-By
Fannie Mae (OTCBB:FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTCBB:FMCC), the massive mortgage giants that own or guarantee over half of all mortgage loans in the U.S., may finally... Read »
Trade Ideas: RMBS, LVS, GRPN
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) has formed a bull flag and looks like it might be getting ready to head higher from here. Break out is around 8.19 (click to enlarge) Las... Read »
AAPL vs. Gold
What did Mark Twain once remark about his obituary, published in a local newspaper? He said, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” It’s the same thing... Read »
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