BP (BP) said it has made a "giant" discovery of crude oil in its Tiber Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. The well was drilled to a depth of over ... Read Full Story »
These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have links through to each with more detailed price/volume analysis over at VSinvestor.com: BP PLC (NYSE: BP) ... Read Full Story »
These are the top ten analyst research initiations, upgrades, and downgrades we have seen from top Wall Street firms early this Wednesday morning: Biogen-Idec (BIIB) Started as Underperform at BofA/Merrill ... Read Full Story »
Sony (SNE), which has failed at most of its new initiatives over the last two years, needs something to work. It PS3 has sold poorly. Prices for it digital cameras and ... Read Full Story »
Facebook, which has over 200 million users, is becoming nearly as widely available on handsets as it is on PCs. Its members cannot get enough of sharing their experiences and ... Read Full Story »
There are dozens of biotech companies and several Big Pharma firms that hope to make money on swine flu treatments, mostly vaccines. They are driven by the WHO's estimate that ... Read Full Story »
Google's (GOOG) Gmail system, which serves millions of customers around the world, shut down yesterday. The problem may hurt its efforts to market applications which include e-mail to businesses. Google prides ... Read Full Story »
Reuters: Sales growth of Ford (F) and Hyundai topped other car companies. Reuters: The EU could slow a takeover of Sun (JAVA) by Oracle (ORCL). Reuters: Home sales and factory ... Read Full Story »
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 2.4% to 10,281. The Hang Seng was down 1.4% to 19,586. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.2% to 2,715. At the open ... Read Full Story »
It has been no secret that the CFTC is looking into many exchange traded notes and exchange traded funds that deal in the energy markets, along with other futures and ... Read Full Story »
If you have ever relied on any outside service to host your email or if you have ever had your email even routed from an outside service, there is the ... Read Full Story »
Wasn't it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA? And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers. Maybe ... Read Full Story »
The launch of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has been delayed so often that it would be comical except that the aerospace firm’s shareholders and customers are not laughing. Boeing trades at ... Read Full Story »
It was just last week that the DJIA was on its eighth consecutive day of a rally and the junkiest of companies were running rampant. But as the economic numbers ... Read Full Story »
Bill Gross is co-CIO for arguably the most influential bond management firm in the U.S. PIMCO is the biggest ax in the bond market of the bond management firms, and ... Read Full Story »