Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its corporate credit rating on Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) to ‘BB+’ from ‘BB’. While this is still junk status, it is now just a notch under "investment grade"…
Have you wondered if the current environment was going to signal the death or a serious blow to the end of private equity as we know it? It seems that the reports of private…
MacroMarkets LLC has announced that its subsidiary MacroShares Housing Depositor has now filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for exchange-traded securities that will allow investors to invest in the upward and the inverse…
NYSE Euronext has announced that the ELEMENTS(SM) S&P Commodity Trends Indicator Total Return Index ETN listed and began trading under the ticker symbol "LSC" on NYSE Arca. This ETN was issued by HSBC USA…
Martha Stewart Living (MSO) CEO Susan Lyne was asked to leave the table today. Two other executives at the company replaced here. The market did not like the news and pushed the stock down…
Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ: CPST) is set to report earnings this Thursday, June 12, 2008 after the market closes and a conference call will follow at 4:45 PM EST. This stock is still extremely…
Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) is seeing a surge in shares this morning after the agriculture player raised its guidance for part of 2008. The firm raised guidance for its second quarter to $2.80 to…
Goldman Sachs has made some changes to its highly watched "CONVICTION" lists this morning. Lorillard (NYSE: LO) and State Street (NYSE: STT) were both added to the CONVICTION BUY LIST this morning. Marshall &…
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Wednesday morning in the early pre-market hours: Alcoa (NYSE: AA) cut to Neutral at JP Morgan. American Capital (NASDAQ: ACAS) started as…
No sooner than the CEO of Russia-owned oil company Gazprom said oil would hit $250 a barrel next year, the head of BP called him criminally insane. According to Reuters, Peter Sutherland, "the chairman…
FCC chair Kevin Martin can’t get off the "free internet" hobby-horse. US citizens do not get free water, electricity, gas, or telephone service. Mr. Martin believes that access to the worldwide web should be…
Detroit may be falling behind the curve again. Toyota (TM) will begin to mass produce lithium ion-batteries in less than two years, making the chances that a working electric car will be in the…
"Alice, it would be nice if something made sense for a change"–Mad Hatter, in "Alice In Wonderland" Overnight, the head of Russia’s state-owned oil company, Gazprom, said that crude would hit $250 next year.…
A look at short interest for stocks traded on the Nasdaq as of May 30 show that traders moved into Yahoo! (YHOO) and out of Sirius (SIRI) Shares short in Yahoo! rose 19.2 million…
According to Reuters, volume sales are now the key to success for Apple’s (AAPL) new iPhone. Reuters reports that the head of Merrill Lynch (MER) supports ongoing regulatory access to data from brokerages and…