There were two ghastly research calls this week from separate firms on separate companies. While one is more severe than the other, these two analyst downgrades are essentially a tie for the severity of…
BMW has the Mini Cooper. Now GM (GM) plans to bring its own brand of mini into the US. GM will probably import its Chevrolet Beat to America to offer a car which gets…
Penn National Gaming Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) has been considered a dead merger for quite some time, yet it only officially became a dead merger this morning. This was the last of the big multi-billion…
While NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is being battered and tattered in trading, one analyst has decided that today’s fire sale in the stock is creating an opportunity. American Technology Research has decided to Reiterate its…
If you look at today’s jobless numbers and loss of jobs, it really looks OK on the surface. The numbers are close enough when you consider how the calculations (which we are expected to…
These are ten of the individual analyst calls seen out there this Thursday morning ahead of a 3-day weekend: Aetna (NYSE: AET) cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs. Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Raised from Sell…
This morning we have seen an upgrade in the communications towers sector. RBC Capital Markets took the entire group from a Sector Perform rating to a higher Outperform rating. Among the stocks raised were…
In a fit of desperation not rivaled since the Grande Armee retreated from Moscow, Yahoo! is trying to find a refuge from onslaughts by Carl Icahn, Microsoft (MSFT), and its own employees who check…
The distance from Detroit to Dallas is about 1,200 miles, but the two towns might as well be twin cities. Yesterday, a prediction that GM (GM) could go bankrupt set off panic among the…
The solution to gas prices is almost right under the noses of those looking for solutions. A fourteen hour plane ride to India or China will do it. The retail price of gas in…
Anyone who wants to waste the money to take a sledge hammer and break apart a PC will likely find a Nvidia (NVDA) graphics chip in among the rubble.Yesterday, Nvidia warned it would miss…
According to Reuters, US stock indices entered a bear market phase. Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are exploring media tie-ups with other internet companies.. Reuters reports that The Weather Channel may…
Most markets in Asia fell modestly. The Nikkei was off .2% to 13,265. Sony (SNE) was up .8% to 4600.Toyota (TM) was down .8% to 4900. The Hang Seng fell .6% to 21,567. China…
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) has just come out and issued an earnings warning over several issues. The graphics processor giant said that second quarter revenue and gross margin are expected to be lower than…
GM (GM) falls as issue of Chapter 11 is raised. Drops to $10 from 52-week high of $43.20. Circuit City (CC) drops as Blockbuster (BBI) withdraws bid. Plummets to $2.10 from 52-week high of…