Courtesy Herbalife Ltd.William Ackman and Pershing Square Capital Management have released another presentation backing Ackman’s claim that Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) is indeed a pyramid scheme. This time Ackman compares Herbalife to Fortune Hi-Tech…
ThinkstockThe home building industry may have been left for dead after the mortgage debacle and recession of 2008, but it continues to help lead markets higher and heal a very anemic economy. Because of…
Jon OggArgus is making some key changes to its model portfolios. This firm is truly considered to be an independent researcher, so it is not full of the traditional possible conflicts on interest seen…
ThinkstockAdd China’s ENN Group Co. to the rather short list of companies rolling out a network of natural gas fueling stations along U.S. highways. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ: CLNE) and Royal Dutch Shell…
Jon OggArgus is truly considered to be independent research firm, so it is not full of the traditional possible conflicts on interest seen in other Wall Street broker sell-side drive research. The firm has…
ThinkstockBack in the halcyon technology boom of the late 1990s, the large cap tech stocks that dominate the Nasdaq stock market were all the rage among investors. Personal computer use was skyrocketing, laptops were…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsTwo bits of data were released from the Labor Department today. Weekly jobless claims is a live reading, and producer prices measuring wholesale inflation is a February reading. With the…
thinkstockChinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) announced earlier this week that it will close its plant in Arizona on April 3, costing 43 employees their jobs. The cost to…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from select Wall St. research calls. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) cut to Neutral from Overweight at J.P. Morgan. Amdocs Ltd. (NYSE:…
As the stock market keeps rising, investors have to expect that the wave of companies raising cash and insiders selling shares will only continue. We tracked a whopping 10 offerings yesterday alone worth a…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is examining the manner in which physical gold prices are fixed, with an eye toward whether or not the fixing is transparent. The automatic answer is, “Of…
ThinkstockLate yesterday afternoon, the board of directors of SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE: SD) essentially caved in to demands from TPG-Axon Group and agreed to add four new directors named by the hedge fund to…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Today is the day. Samsung will release its so-called iPhone killer, the Galaxy S IV. Many experts believe that the product’s new features will make it a challenge to Apple Inc.…
ThinkstockAmerican fathers have been saddled with additional domestic chores, according to Pew Research. This compares to five decades ago when they could come home from work, have a martini, read the paper and tell…
courtesy of Volkswagen of AmericaVolkswagen is already at the top of the auto sales food chain in China, tied most months with General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM). But despite a flattening in growth in…