Filed under: Earnings reports , Forecasts , Market matters , Money and Finance Today , Economic data , Oil , Housing , Recession , Financial Crisis The past two weeks we have seen oil prices steadily trade higher, but the sellers came out today in reaction to rising concern over consumer confidence and pushed prices lower. Oil dropped under $67 a barrel today as Wall Street learned that consumer confidence had dropped for the second straight month in July.

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Oil drops below $67

Filed under: Comic Relief If you’ve been desperately waiting for a new Merle Hazard song, the long winter is over: Merle is back with ‘Bailout’, a charming country ballad all about bailouts. It’s not an immediate classic the way that the catchy H-E-D-G-E F-U-N-D was, but for lyrical depth and detail, it’s definitely a new high for Mr

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Merle Hazard is back with ‘Bailout’

Filed under: Marketing and advertising , Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM ) indicated today that it will create two separate marketing companies to ensure the world knows even more about the cars and trucks it produces. One of the companies will focus on the U.S.

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Toyota creates two marketing new companies to align more with consumer tastes

Filed under: Competitive strategy , Target Corp. (TGT) Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT ) has raised the ire of activist investor Bill Ackman a few times over the years, to little effect

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Target: a retailer and a REIT

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Here’s something that won’t represent front-page or top of the web site news for experienced investors: in the immediate years ahead, income taxes are likely to increase, particularly on upper-income groups.

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Tax-free bonds: No small plum in a high-income-tax world

Filed under: Earnings reports , General Electric (GE) , Time Warner (TWX) , Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , News Corp’B’ (NWS) , Media World Viacom (NYSE: VIA ), a media company whose rivals include Disney (NYSE: DIS ), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX ), News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS ), and General Electric ’s (NYSE: GE ) NBC Universal, had a lousy second quarter

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Viacom’s second quarter does not rock

Filed under: Deals , International Business Machines (IBM) A key part of the growth strategy at IBM (NYSE: IBM ) is to buy up top-notch software companies. So, today the tech giant has struck again; that is, agreeing to purchase SPSS (NASDAQ: SPSS ) for about $1.2 billion in cash

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IBM snags SPSS for $1.2 billion

Textron swings to a second-quarter loss on fewer sales of business jets as the company continues to exit most of its commercial-finance business.

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Loss-making Textron cuts outlook

U.S. stock futures edged lower Tuesday after a remarkable run, with another batch of earnings from the likes of Viacom and Valero in focus.

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Before the Bell: Viacom, IBM, Philip Morris in focus

Rockwell Automation says its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 78% due to sharp declines in its software and control products and solutions businesses.

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Rockwell Automation quarterly profit falls 78%