Filed under: Competitive strategy , Apple Inc (AAPL) Apple, Inc.

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Apple’s iTunes will still dominate digital music, even with enhanced competition

Filed under: General Motors (GM) No one likes a bankruptcy — unless you have a massive insurance policy that will pay you more than debts owed. It’s akin to taking out an insurance policy on your house that will pay you back three times what its worth.

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Chrysler Bankruptcy: Were CDS the culprit?

Filed under: General Motors (GM) No one likes a bankruptcy — unless you have a massive insurance policy that will pay you more than debts owed. It’s akin to taking out an insurance policy on your house that will pay you back three times what its worth.

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Chrysler Bankruptcy: Were CDS the culprit?

Filed under: Stocks to Buy , Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC) The rails — once one of the chicest sectors in Wall Street circles — were unceremoniously dumped by a financial crisis and an ensuing global recession that stopped both commodity demand and trade nearly cold

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Time to scoop up a few shares of Norfolk Southern

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Filed under: Earnings reports , American Express (AXP) , MasterCard Inc’A’ (MA) Visa (NYSE: V ), whose colleagues include American Express (NYSE: AXP ), MasterCard (NYSE: MA ), and Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS ), reported a Q2 profit on Wednesday that was surprisingly strong. On an adjusted basis, earnings came in at 73 cents per share.

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Let’s give Visa some credit for its Q2 performance

Filed under: Competitive strategy , Microsoft (MSFT) , Verizon Communications (VZ) Verizon Wireless, a division of Verizon Communications, Inc.

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Verizon talking to Microsoft about iPhone rival partnership? Here we go again.

Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Other issues , Rants and raves , Market matters , Scandals , Citigroup Inc. (C) , Bank of America (BAC) , Personal finance A lot of readers have been thinking similar thoughts to someone who commented on my recent post: Chasing Value: Watch BNI — the heck with Citigroup . Donald wrote, “Why the hell would I take advice from a company, that as a whole, its Net income was US$ −27.684 billion for 2008

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Why take advice from Citigroup? Or any other analysts for that matter?

Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Other issues , Rants and raves , Market matters , Scandals , Citigroup Inc.

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Why take advice from Citigroup? Or any other analysts for that matter?

Filed under: Oil , Stocks to Buy The Obama administration’s admirable goal to create a more self-reliant, energy-independent nation and the impact of efforts to first limit, then eliminate global warming from fossil fuels opens the door to alternative energy source development.

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Murphy Oil knows production eventually turns into profits

Filed under: Management , Market matters , Recession , Financial Crisis Do you remember the Lehman Bankruptcy? Well it seems that Ron Grassi is suing the three credit rating agencies for negligence, fraud and deceit. Mr.

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Big three rating agencies being sued for negligence, fraud and deceit