Quantcast

Monthly Archives: February 2011

10 Hidden Gems in the Regions Financial Annual Report (RF)

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 9:35 am

Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF) is one of the many widely held companies which filed its annual report under form 10-K with the SEC.  Investors rarely look through these annual ...
Read Full Story »

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report; GDP Stuck Down

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 9:01 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
Read Full Story »

Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (LLNW, MDAS, OVTI)

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 8:56 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW), Medassets, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDAS), ...
Read Full Story »

Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/25/2011) MySpace Sale, China In Japan

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 8:42 am

Updated throughout the day News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has begun the process of selling MySpace (Reuters) China's sovereign funds have begun to put money into large Japanese companies (WSJ) Retailer ...
Read Full Story »

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARMH, CBOA, CMG, C, FSLR, FFIV, GPS, HAL, MDAS, NTES, OVTI, R, SLE, SWC, STT, WFC)

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 8:15 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Raised to Neutral at BofA/ML. ...
Read Full Story »

MacBook Pro: Too Much Computing Power

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 5:55 am

The new MacBook Pro has a price tag between $1,199 and $2,499. It is more powerful than the mainframes IBM marketed in the 1960s. The computer has quad core processors, ...
Read Full Story »

A US Agricultural Export Boom And China

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 5:29 am

The Chief Economist of the USDA issued his "Prospects for the US Farm Economy in 2011" The document is barely 10 pages long, but it says a great deal. The ...
Read Full Story »

Oil Prices And The Future Of Airline Employees

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 5:01 am

Lost in the conversation about airline fuel prices and falling margins is the fate of airline employees. The most frequent reaction to an increase in the cost of jet fuel ...
Read Full Story »

Media Digest (2/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 25, 2011 at 4:12 am

EADS division Airbus lost out on an Air Force tanker to Boeing (NYSE: BA) (Reuters) Gold and oil moved higher on concerns about Libya (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched a new ...
Read Full Story »

Earnings Eclipse at First Solar (FSLR)

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 5:52 pm

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is going to have a little bit for bulls and bears alike in its latest earnings report.  The leader in solar panels beat earnings at ...
Read Full Story »

IEA Tries to Calm Crude Price Fears

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 3:50 pm

The International Energy Agency has issued a statement that it apparently hopes will quell some of the fears that have driven crude prices to levels not seen for a while. ...
Read Full Story »

The 27 Cities With Highest Gas Prices in America

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 2:18 pm

With the turmoil out of Libya and Bahrain on the heels of North African and Egyptian strife in recent weeks, it is no wonder that $100.00+ oil prices rose and ...
Read Full Story »

$4 Gas/$5 Gas

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Turmoil in Libya and elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle East is causing any number of prognosticators to come out of the woodwork and predict that gasoline prices ...
Read Full Story »

E*TRADE’s Secondary Drop Is Actually Good For Holders (ETFC, SCHW, AMTD, MS, GS)

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is getting hit hard today on news that Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group has sold shares in the stock in a registered offering.  Don't be ...
Read Full Story »

Skellig Capital Begs Concurrent Computer To Buy Back Shares

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 11:24 am

Concurrent Computer NASDAQ: CCUR) shares are under-priced and Skellig Capital and Robert M. Neal, head of Skellig, want to remedy that. Together, the man and the fund hold 5.86% of Concurrent's 9,247,000 ...
Read Full Story »