Shareholders of Frontier Oil are displeased about its merger with Holly Corp. It would be more accurate to say that Holly is making an acquisition for $2.9 billion. Shareholder class actions suits have already…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Conexant Systems, Inc . (NASDAQ: CNXT), DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV), Standard Microsystems (NASDAQ: SMSC), and Vertex…
Updated throughout the day. NASDAQ may make at bid for NYSE (NYSE: NYX) (various) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 on March 2 (Reuters) The SEC will launch a probe into private…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. American…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is starting to show more cracks in its story against the world of bundled GPS and personal navigation services in smartphones. The GPS leader turned in quarterly results that showed…
24/7 Wall St. has decided to investigate where inflation has the greatest potential to damage the economy. There is plenty of ground to cover. It is clear that the cost of agricultural commodities, metals,…
Hulu’s management may not have admitted it already, but the company is about to be irreparably damaged by new initiatives to stream premium content to the home. The first was launched over a year…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad was launched last April and sold three million units in 80 days. Apple sold 7.33 iPads in its fiscal first quarter. There are a number of reports that Apple…
There was not a bit of good news in the S&P/Case-Shiller data about the housing market for the last quarter of 2010. The National Index was down 4.1% from the same period last year.…
Nasdaq OMX may bid for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NYX) (Reuters) Oil reached a 2 1/2 high on Middle East concerns (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made a grim forecast for 2011 and…
Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has just reported its first real quarter earnings report under the new CEO Leo Apotheker. The PC, server, and IT giant reported earnings of $1.36 adjusted EPS and $32.3…
If there is one industry which reacts immediately to higher oil prices and to global unrest, it is the airline sector. These are technically not new risks but these two issues are hitting the…
Force Majeure is perhaps one of the least favored aspects of corporate law. In short, Force Majeure is that odd exception that suddenly gives a supplier or a customer a pass on its contractual…
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) just issued another piece of nasty news. It will close its nine branded stores in China. It is another in a series of signs that the electronics retailer is in…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is among many of the established companies which has filed its annual report or 10-K with the SEC. These reports are almost always long and boring and unfortunately go unread…