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#PreMarket Primer: Wednesday, November 12: Banks Fined More Than $3 Billion For Role In Forex Manipulation
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 8:44am | 1477On Wednesday, a Federal probe into the role big banks played in a forex manipulation scheme resulted in huge fines for UBS AG (NYSE: UBS), HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HSBC), the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (NYSE: RBS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C). The...
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Yahoo! Beats Google But Still Needs to Monetize (GOOG, YHOO)
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 10:21am | 594For the first time since May 2011, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) had more visitors to its sites than Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), according to comScore based on data from its Media Metrix service for July 2013. Yahoo hosted 196.6 million unique visitors, up 20 percent compared to July 2012. Google saw 192.3...
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Yahoo Jumping on the Startup Acquisition Bandwagon
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 10:40am | 566AOL Inc.(NYSE: AOL) has Huffington Post. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has YouTube. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has Instagram. And now, Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is getting a startup of its own as well. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Yahoo’s board approved $1.1 billion to acquire...