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Monthly Archives: April 2010

BioHealth Business Daily (CELG, HALO, CTIC, ENMD, FRX, NVAX, TCM)

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 1:27 pm

Thursday's edition of the BioHealth Business Daily has many common companies through the biotech and pharma sectors, as well as some widely unknown names.  We are seeing news reactions in ...
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How Apple Killed The Future Of Search

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 12:10 pm

Today, Google gets over 9.5 billion searches per month in the United States. Although search engines such as Microsoft's Bing compete for a share of the market, they present ...
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Breaking Greece’s Back: Another S&P Downgrade?

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 10:44 am

The capital markets are already suspicious that Greece will not be able to close a bond support deal with other eurozone countries and the IMF. Ratings agency Fitch told Greece that ...
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Can Private Equity make Zale into Tiffany? (ZLC, TIF, BRK-B)

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 9:48 am

In our daily stock and market rumors wrap up each morning, an interesting issue stood out this morning.  Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC) may be in play.  This is a continuation ...
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Power Companies Call for Price Hike

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 9:11 am

By staff reporter Xu Ming, Caixin Five Chinese power companies have submitted a joint application to regulatory authorities to offset thinning profits from tighter energy supplies (more...) ...
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Tons of Hope in GM’s Terrific Loss

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 8:50 am

By Jake Simpson The latest financial news from the beleaguered auto industry appears grim at first glance. Hampered by a $2.6 billion payment to its union, General Motors reported a ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (CML, BBBY, PALM, CIGX, LCC, UAUA, MEE, HOTT, NBG, FRX)

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 8:09 am

We are seeing many significant news moves this morning.  Today's top day trader and active trader alerts have links to the news on each stock over at VSInvestor.com along with ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/8/2010)

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 7:48 am

Updated throughout the day. A senior member of a Goldman Sachs (GS) large hedge fund left the firm (Bloomberg) Zale is being pursued by three private equity operations which include ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Watch 4.8

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 7:37 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BUD, BIDU, EBAY, EMC, FRX, MSFT, ORCL, PMT, SINA, SOHU)

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 7:36 am

These are this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Anheuser Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) ...
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The American Work Force: The Old Push The Young Onto The Bread Line

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 6:31 am

Being young has its advantages, but apparently being employed is not one of those. A new study from the Economic Policy Institute shows that people between 16 and 24 years ...
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Ben Bernanke’s Vision Of The Apocalypse

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 5:17 am

Ben Bernanke has seen the future and it is filled with an American debt balloon the size of which the world has never seen. The federal government will run out of ...
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The American Consumer Sees His Shadow

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 5:01 am

Consumer borrowing dropped in February by 5.6% to an annual rate of $2.45 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. Revolving credit, a good proxy for credit card debt, dropped by 13.1%. ...
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A New “Largest Airline In The World”: British Air And Iberia Marry

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 4:38 am

A merger between United Air (UAUA) and US Airway (LCC), which was recently rumored, would not create much of carrier compared to the BA merger with Iberia which was completed today. The ...
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Toyota Was Warned Of Defects By Inside Employee

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 4:33 am

The smoking gun inside Toyota (TM) has been found. An executive warned his colleagues in the US that cars made by the Japanese company had severe defects.  the warning came ...
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