Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) was trading lower on the day, but shares have now spiked up 2% to $68.05 on the day. The reason is rather unusual and it ... Read Full Story »
Monster Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: MWW) may be "back for sale" in the minds of investors and speculators. The company is currently under a strategic review to maximize shareholder value, but ... Read Full Story »
David Einhorn of Greenlight is well-known in investing, and not just for being long. This is called whale-watching. His comments today at the Value Investing Congress are single-handedly taking down ... Read Full Story »
Fund manager Jim Chanos has been pretty vocal about the risks in China from its economy to its debt levels to its real estate market. He goes on to say ... Read Full Story »
The American Jobs Act is a bill which is supposed to be "fully paid for." It isn't. In the attack on wealth at all costs, the measure to tax ... Read Full Story »
Mid-Cap value investment strategies often work in various market cycles. Mid-cap stocks are in the sweet spot of future large companies and companies which also get acquired by private equity ... Read Full Story »
Last April, Harvey Neiman of Neiman Funds Management, said in an interview that market volatility was going to be the theme for 2011. Rather than trying to predict what would ... Read Full Story »
Whether or not initial public offerings are performing properly in the after-market is one thing, but the game that investors are trying to win now is in securing pre-IPO shares ... Read Full Story »
FriendFinder Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFN) has managed to be one of the worst IPOs of 2011. The performance was bad enough that you might think it was a Chinese reverse ... Read Full Story »
A respected gold fund manager still sees gold going to $1,700.00 this year, with a likely year-end price around $1,600.00 per ounce. 24/7 Wall St. got a chance to interview ... Read Full Story »
Investors love dividends, particularly from companies which are raising dividends or which have a history of raising dividends. There is a new diversified sample dividend portfolio for investors called the ... Read Full Story »
Ben Bernanke, nor any other FOMC chairman, has ever given a regular press conference immediately after a scheduled FOMC meeting. We are taking notes, some will be paraphrased... We will not be ... Read Full Story »
Glam Media is the latest media company to claim that it will soon become the largest employer of journalists. At a dinner in San Francisco earlier this month, CEO Samir ... Read Full Story »
We have another IPO from China today that may look like a NASDAQ IPO but it is a New York Stock Exchange IPO. E-commerce China Dangdang Inc. (NYSE: DANG) priced ... Read Full Story »
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has recently released its quarterly holdings and the changes were more than in any recent quarter. This morning CNBC has been interviewing Warren Buffett about ... Read Full Story »