Author: Ned Douthat

Analyst Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital has issued an extremely thorough report on his vision of where the smartphone industry is headed, and he likes what he sees. He expects the number of smartphones users worldwide will triple...

“Target better than expected 79 cents a share and analysts were looking for only 66 cents. The revenue when you include credit cards was right in line with expectations and $15.1 billion and although same-store sales,...

On Monday’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer advised his viewers to consider taking advantage of the $750 million secondary offer announced by BB&T (BBT). BB&T used a recent secondary offering to raise capital for the purpose...

“You’ve been watching Capital One Financial, that’s one of the top stories talking about the July write-offs to have uncollectable loans and those rose 9.8% and Capital One Financial will certainly be a name to...

“Another story we’re closely following today and that is involving Charles Schwab. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo expect today sue Schwab the company for civil fraud according to the Wall Street Journal....

“Stocks have their worst loss in more than a month after an unexpectedly low reading from the University of Michigan. Wall Street Journal says BB&T has reached an agreement to buy the deposits and branches of Colonial...

We have to send a tip of the hat, to ultra popular finance blogger at Zerohedge.com for alerting us to the huge number of insiders who are selling off stock in their companies. We have noted this sort of activity over the last...

In an commentary piece on Bloomberg.com called Next Bubble to Burst Is Banks’ Big Loan Values, Johnathan Weil exposes some distressing nuggets of information that are buried in the footnotes of banks’ quarterly...