John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks. Yet his new filing shows a large long position as of the quarter-end June…
By Douglas A. McIntyre
· 5:11pm ET Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) was supposed to be the big winner of the Great Recession as the giant trade-down retail play for America. Interestingly enough, the peak of the stock was…
Douglas A. McIntyre With all the stimulus money in the U.S. supposedly heading toward alternative energy…. with all the boost from Chinese credits for solar…. with all the greenhouse gases and carbon emission regulation coming….…
The Twitter outage introduces the concept of whether anyone would really miss the service if it went away. Financial experts have argued that Twitter is not worth much even with its 30…
Emdeon Inc. (NYSE: EM) is today’s ‘other’ initial public offering. The company priced 23,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $15.50 per share. Not all proceeds are going back into the…
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and most active in price and volume. We have more detailed analysis and data on price and volume with links through to each at VSInvestor.com: JA…
The Trade Balance, a.k.a. the trade deficit, for June has just come out at $27.01 billion, from a revised $25.97 billion. This comes in versus consensus estimates from economists at $28.7 billion. The exports…
It is somewhat light in analyst coverage this morning as reports are dribbling in. These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street early this Wednesday morning: Citrix…
Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD) has priced its initial public offering of 40,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $20.00 per share. This is an externally managed company and the underwriting…
Apple’s (AAPL) market cap is now$148 billion. Google’s (GOOG) is only $143 billion. The disparity between the two numbers does not make sense. Google has been the faster-growing company, at least historically. Hardware companies…
Economic growth in China and a very modest recovery in the West will not be enough to drive up oil demand next year, according to the International Energy Agency. The world will only need…
Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported that the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early morning and afternoon. The service had more severe problems last week. There have been…