Lou Gutheil

ARM Holdings (LSE:ARM) share price, which has been doing admirably well of late, fell by more than 4% in trading today, based, it would appear on a single analyst’s rating downgrade. It must be quite a heady feeling to wield that much power over the minds of investors. I find it a bit incredulous that […]

When Tesla Motors’ share price (NASDAQ:TSLA) closed at 259.00 on 11 August 2014, it set a new record high. It continued to set new high nearly every trading day through 04 September before a bumpy, but consistent decline that lasted 27 March of this year when it bottomed out at 185.00 amidst gloom and doom […]

Nothing in the food industry has ever been as American as McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), but the company has been losing its grip on the restaurant sector or its appeal to American customers for several years. MCD’s share price has been in decline since 19 May. It’s current share price is 96.32, up 1.16 in intraday trading, […]

The share price of CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) was up by 0.53% to $103.12 today, one day after it announced that it was entering into a deal to acquire Target Corporations’ in-store clinic and pharmacy operations. Target shares (NYSE:TGT) were trading up by 0.65% today at $80.97. Target shares were off slightly after the announcement […]

General Electric’s share price (NYSE:GE) is bouncing up and down this morning as investors are reacting to the not-so-surprising news that the company is taking the steps it has indicated it would to divest itself of its private equity business.  The company confirmed this morning that it will sell its sponsor finance business and a […]

The biggest news today will probably come from Vienna where the OPEC oil ministers are gathered to determine how they are going to try to continue to manage the business through which the consortium has pretty much controlled the oil industry since 1960. Nonetheless observers are still buzzing over the newly-published list of Fortune 500 […]

Rob Walton has resigned as Chairman of Walmart, the business his father founded in 1962. 70-year-old Samuel Robson Walton has been chairman of Walmart since 1992. He will remain on the board of directors. The announcement comes one day after Walmart topped the list of Fortune 500 companies for the eleventh time and the third […]

Last evening I decided to watch a couple episodes of National Geographic’s new mini-series, American Genius that I had recorded. It should be available in the UK. I highly recommend the one-hour docudramas that show how genius thrives or fails in the face of other genius. An upcoming episode features the classis story of the […]

Really. What is going on is strange, and it is not likely that anyone really predicted what we are seeing right now. Are current conditions what the OPEC nations expected when they lowered the price of crude, but did not cut production? Consider the following: The number of operating oil rigs in the U.S. has […]

The share price of Avago Technologies Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO) has had its ups and downs on heavy trading today following its announcement that it had entered into an agreement to acquire semiconductor sector rival Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ:BRCM) for a sum of $37 billion in cash and stock. According to Forbes, this will be the biggest semiconductor […]