Martha Stewart Omnimedia (MSO) and KB Home (KBH) will launch a line of green homes. The announcement was made in conjunction with Builder magazine. The project is officially known as the “KB Home GreenHouse: An Idea Home Created with Martha Stewart.”
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Standard & Poor’s is revamping its credit rating methodology for banks and financial institutions in a way that may cause about 40% of rated banks to get a downgrade, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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The S&P 500 gained about 13% last year, but it didn’t get much help while companies were releasing results. That index was unchanged or lower for all four of 2010’s earnings seasons, and it could repeat this pattern now.
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Once again, profit reports are expected to be a tale of strong growth, thanks more to cost cuts than revenue gains. And perhaps even more telling, fourth-quarter 2010 earnings are competing with downright dismal reports for the…
Alcoa, Intel and JPMorgan Chase will kick off a new earnings season this week when they report their results for the fourth quarter of 2010. Here’s what analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect, followed by a glance at what’…