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Fortune Brands (NYSE: FO), the maker of Jim Beam bourbon and Titleist golf balls, is reportedly considering selecting Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) to manage the sale of its golf business, according to a report by Bloomberg News. The investment bank may approach potential buyers such as Nike (NYSE: NKE...

Money is continuing to move into the financial sector on Wednesday led by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) which has added 1.54% to $14.45 after Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) advised clients to buy $16 call options on the name. Citigroup (NYSE: C) is also notching nice gains, rising 0.82% to $4.94. The big...

• Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) has announced plans to purchase Atheros Communications (NASDAQ:ATHR) for $45 per share, in a deal valued at $3.5 billion • After yesterday's close, Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) reported fiscal second quarter earnings of $1.01 ex-items, versus $0.24 a year ago, ahead of the Zacks...

• Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) has announced plans to purchase Atheros Communications (NASDAQ:ATHR) for $45 per share, in a deal valued at $3.5 billion • After yesterday's close, Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) reported fiscal second quarter earnings of $1.01 ex-items, versus $0.24 a year ago, ahead of the Zacks...

Despite investing a cool $450 million in the company, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) got a tutorial on how to use its newest investment: Facebook. Goldman prohibits its employees from using social networking sites at the office, and got a tutorial from Facebook's David Ebersman, it's chief financial...

Below are the top large-cap investment brokerage-national stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of profit margin. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) is 32.94%. CME's PEG ratio is 1.53. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at TD Ameritrade Holding...

Dian L. Chu explores how the new Tech Bubble may be the multitude of Social Network sites such as Facebook, Groupon, and Baidu.. All of which have extremely inflated P/E Ratios. Consider the fact that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) just put in $450 Million for a 1% stake in Facebook, could GS have plans...

Dian L. Chu explores how the new Tech Bubble may be the multitude of Social Network sites such as Facebook, Groupon, and Baidu.. All of which have extremely inflated P/E Ratios. Consider the fact that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) just put in $450 Million for a 1% stake in Facebook, could GS have plans...

Zacks' Voice of the People Highlights user MightyMo: "The 'G's' - DG & GS - Get It" from the People & Picks community. For more Voice of the People, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=5851 Featured Post The "G's" - DG & GS - Get It Dollar General (DG) and Goldman Sachs (GS) are stocks of...

Zacks' Voice of the People Highlights user MightyMo: "The 'G's' - DG & GS - Get It" from the People & Picks community. For more Voice of the People, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=5851 Featured Post The "G's" - DG & GS - Get It Dollar General (DG) and Goldman Sachs (GS) are stocks of...

The major stock market indexes are trading mixed today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading slight positive on the session while the S&P 500 Index, NASDAQ Composite, and the Russel 2000 Index are all trading lower. Since the Federal Reserve Bank announced its quantitative easing(QE-2)...

SecondMarket has told Bloomberg that they have received SEC requests for information about its handling of pre-IPO shares of private companies. The government entity has recently become interested in secondary markets for private company shares (i.e. shares of companies that do not trade on public...

• Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) removed Nike (NYSE:NKE) from its Conviction Buy List, but maintained the "buy" rating with a target price of $95 • KBW upgraded SunTrust (NYSE:STI) to "outperform," increasing the target price $33 from $30 • Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) lifted its target price of Apple (NASDAQ:...

The U.S. government is about to reach it's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by the early spring of 2011. Yesterday, the White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee made a strong case that the debt ceiling would have to be raised or the economy in the United States would be...