First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) reports fourth quarter and full-year earnings after markets close today, and investors are pushing the share price up in advance of the company’s report. Given that most solar PV…
Many shareholders argue that share repurchase and stock buyback plans are generally a waste of shareholder capital aimed solely as a short-term share price targeting mechanism. Many would prefer to see dividends. Still, share…
Frontier Oil is receiving the most bad press this morning after posting poor earnings. And, investors are still upset about its M&A deal with Holly. Holly posted good earnings but it investors are also…
Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) has buckled to the pressure to pay a dividend. At the end of January, we highlighted eight non-dividend payers that need to pay dividends. Kohl’s was among those. The company’s…
The elimination of the federal home buyer tax credit and the foreclosure documentation issue put a lid on fourth quarter 2010 foreclosure sales, but for the full year, foreclosure sales accounted for 26% of…
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 Calumet Specialty Partners Products Limited (NASDAQ: CLMT), E TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC),…
Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) is supposed to be the winner from the migration toward online tax return filings and the trend away from having actual people preparing tax returns. What if that turns out…
The Labor Department just released the weekly jobless claims data and showed that the weekly jobless claims fell down by 19,000 back under the 400,000 threshold to some 391,000 claims. Dow Jones was looking…
Updated throughout the day. Obama will propose a solution to charge against banks over mortgage foreclosure issues. It will involve the modification of the loan balances of $20 billion worth of mortgages (WSJ) PerkinsElmer…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) Cut to Sector Perform at RBC. Chesapeake Energy Corporation…
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has just jointed the waves and waves of companies which have filed their 2010 annual reports under the form 10-K with the SEC. Most investors do not read these to…
24/7 Wall St. reviewed how Americans spend money. One of the conclusions of this analysis is that consumer spending is relatively alive and well, despite the recession. This may mean that Americans continue to…
What’s Israel’s secret to success? Being at the right place at the right time. The Jewish state’s success is all the more remarkable considering its lack of natural resources such as oil and the…
One of the by-products of unrest and austerity in Ireland is that many of the well-educated and well-paid have left the country or are in the process of doing so. The Wall Street Journal…