courtesy Boeing Co.In what seems like a never-ending stream of problems with The Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner, Polish flag-carrier LOT Polish Airlines ASA said on Wednesday that it was forced to ground…
24/7 Wall St. reviews many short interest changes throughout the month. What generally stands out the most is when there are big short interest trend changes, such as seeing that high-yield dividend stocks were…
Thinkstock Cancer-treatment company Foundation Medicine Inc. (NASDAQ: FMI) held its initial public offering (IPO) Wednesday morning. The company sold 5.9 million shares at an offering price of $18 a share, above its proposed range…
ThinkstockThe United States has always been regarded as a nation of immigrants. Recently-published figures from the United Nations support this view. More than 45 million immigrants live in the U.S., according to UN figures,…
Courtesy BlackBerryBlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) has only one hope at the current time: its buyout. That buyout may come with some unfortunate implications. Fitch Ratings has issued a report that should bring at least…
courtesy of USPSThe U.S. Postal Service (USPS) claims to be a self-supported government enterprise that receives no tax dollars for operating expenses. Somehow, it keeps operating at losses, it keeps having severe pension issues and…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 2.6 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 358.3…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Update: At the time of writing, we had not seen the news that Goldman Sachs had downgraded J.C. Penney stock to Underperform. Given that the bank was reported earlier this…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau this morning released data on new single-family home sales for August. Sales rose 7.9% month-over-month, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 421,000 from a downwardly revised July sales figure…
ThinkstockShort sellers have increased their bets against the stable high-dividend stocks that are in most Americans’ retirement accounts and mutual funds. In fact, the mid-September short interest saw year highs in many cases. Only…
ThinkstockChina’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has dropped plans to file for an initial public offering (IPO) valued at more than $60 billion on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company now is expected to file for…
Courtesy of Abbott LaboratoriesWith many of the companies in the S&P 500 having margins approaching all-time highs, and implied S&P 500 correlations approaching post-crisis lows, it is becoming harder to make a bullish case…
ThinkstockThe recent decision from Ben Bernanke and the FOMC to not start tapering bond purchases was supposedly due to the economic strength simply not being on solid enough ground to justify and tolerate the…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of September 13 in the following 3D printer and services companies: 3D Systems Inc. (NYSE: DDD), Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), The ExOne Co. (NASDAQ: XONE)…
Wikimedia CommonsIn what has become an industry-leading conference, Goldman Sachs once again is holding its annual Communacopia conference. For the 22nd year, the conference will attract the top names in telecommunications, media cable companies…