Short sellers have significantly increased their bet that GM (GM) shares are going to drop: Short interest in the No.1 U.S. car company jumped 26.5% to 41.5 million shares in the two-week period that ended May 15. Based on the stock's trend, the market would appear to agree with opinion. GM shares have fallen more than 15% this year, while the DJIA is 7% higher. GM's first quarter earnings were impressive enough. The quarter's net income attributable to common stockholders of $3.2 billion, or...

Divorce is a common in America today. In many cases, divorce affects people from all walks of life similarly except for the poor. Between 2005 and 2009, 10.8 percent of "white" people referred to themselves as divorced, according to data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. This number only went up slightly to 11.5% for "black or African-American" people, and 12.6% for "American Indian and Alaska Native" people. However, as recent analysis of Census Bureau's May 2011 report,...

AT&T (T) will spread its 4G LTE network into a large number of U.S. cities this year, a move that puts it into direct competition with Sprint-Nextel's (S) Wimax 4G product and LTE technology deployed by Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD). "The next network evolution will arrive this summer with the addition of LTE in five markets – Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio. We plan to add another 10 or more markets in the second half of the year, and cover 70 million Americans with LTE by...

The Shanghai Composite is made up of several hundred Chinese publicly traded stocks, but is dominated by 50 which include China's largest banks, its largest utilities, transportation, and unity companies. It's as close to a proxy for the performance of shares of public firms in the People's Republic as investors can find. Oddly, though China is supposed to be a more robust economy than the U.S., the Shanghai Composite is up only 5% in the last year, compared to a rise of 25% by the S&P 500....

Google's shares have fallen 15% in the last three months while the S&P 500 has traded flat. This share price decline seems odd when contrasted with the spectacular success Google (GOOG) has been experiencing with its Android mobile OS. Android has proven so successful that it has moved from smartphones to tablet PCs to laptops, and its market share has surpassed that of Apple's (AAPL) iOS, according to several studies. Part of the problem is that investors are skeptical about what Android...