As always, here are the top major media headline summaries from the likes of the WSJ, Reuters, NYTimes, Financial Times and more. The top analyst upgrades and downgrades were seen in ANF, ARUN, CRUS, DGI, ECA, GPS, MOT, OTEX, SIRI, SYMC. The top day trader and active trader alerts are in SYMC, CHKP, BRCD, BSDM, MNKD, NTAP, PETM, STEM. We also have the top equity and market alerts seen from around Twitter and this mornings top equity and market rumors are out.
Intel Corporation (INTC) and McAfee (MFE) are merging and this could create a game changing event for the companies, and for data security peers.
Our survey on GM IPO demand so far shows that investors don't really want to subscribe to the offering.
We ran a list of the countries with the safest debt ratings outside of the United States with a brief explanation on each.
Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway's newest stock holdings were out earlier this week, in case you are one of the many who have been out on vacation in August.
RadioShack (RSH) made a large buyback expansion yesterday. Sounds good to retire 20% of the company stock or so. The problem is that this means the company doesn't even believe that the interested buyer pool of Best Buy to Private Equity has as much as a low-ball price interest now.
Here is a list of the major companies that led the layoff waves.
Have a great trading day!
