Top Stocks To Buy In 2012
Stock futures flat as investors take breather
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE U.S. stock index futures trade flat, with investors reluctant to press further gains absent any freshly compelling economic data a day after the Dow industrials briefly topped 13,000. See full story. China manufacturing index edges higher: HSBC A closely watched gauge of Chinese factory activity rises to a four-month high but remains [...]
AT&T kills $39 billion bid for T-Mobile
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Facing heavy resistance from the U.S. government to its $39 billion bid for T-Mobile, AT&T on Monday officially killed off the deal that would have created by far the nation’s largest wireless company. AT&T (T, Fortune 500) went down fighting. It warned that consumers will be worse off because of the [...]
Libya Turned Down Madoff, Stanford Proposals – Wikileaks
Wikileaks strikes again. This time a leaked cable reveals, according to a Wednesday MSNBC news report, that the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi was approached for the purpose of soliciting investments by both Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford. Madoff has already been jailed for perpetrating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that cost investors dearly; Stanford [...]
3 Stocks Stopping the Presses
You saw the headlines. You know your stock price made a big move. But what does that portend for your investment’s future? By pairing the latest news with the collective wisdom of our 180,000-strong?Motley Fool CAPS investing community, we might be able to discover whether your stock’s latest exploits are a short-term hiccup — or [...]
Is Eastman Kodak a Buffett Stock?
As the world’s third-richest person and most celebrated investor, Warren Buffett attracts a lot of attention. Thousands try to glean what they can from his thinking processes and track his investments. We can’t know for sure whether Buffett is about to buy Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK ) — he hasn’t specifically mentioned anything about it to [...]
