Month: <span>February 2011</span>

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 reports due...
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 more than one million...
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:...
Updated throughout the dayNews 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...
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. CBOE...
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, Thunderbolt technology, and an...
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 US farmer will have an outstanding year....
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 is similar to the one in...
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 MacBook Pro...
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 $1.80 EPS versus Thomson Reuters...
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. The IEA notes that less than...
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 drove gasoline higher.  Still, it is...
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 could or will rise to...
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 fooled...
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...