Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Ascent Media Corporation (NASDAQ: ASCMA), CNinsure Inc. (NASDAQ: CISG), DryShips Inc.…
Updated throughout the day. Apollo Management will buy Regis (NYSE: RGS) (NYPost) A free trade deal between the US and South Korea is hung up on the issue of tariff’s on cars made in…
There are at least ten states in which 6% or more of population experiences very low food security. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “In households with very low food security, the…
Analysts who follow the telecom industry were surprised when Verizon Wireless recently announced it would offer LTE 4G broadband service in a number of cities. One reason for the shock is that there are still very…
The head of auto research firm Edmund’s recently suggested that the federal government raise the tax on gasoline. He thinks the President’s deficit reduction panel has overlooked how much a sharp increase in the…
The Xinhua news agency reports that China imported just under 210 metric tons of gold in the first ten months of 2010. That is about five times the what it had during the same…
Trading activity in several healthcare deals is being examined by federal authorities.(WSJ) Payroll numbers should have improved in November. The jobless rate was probably flat. (Reuters) China said it would move toward a “prudent”…
Global capital markets investors are bound to once again take a dim view of the future stability of the eurozone. S&P has warned that is may downgrade the sovereign debt of Greece. “Standard &…
Pending home sales rose in October, according to the National Association of Realtors. The news comes just a day after S&P/Case-Shiller data showed a drop in home sales. Perhaps there are more homes for…
Costco (NASDAQ: COST) same-stores sales rose 9% in November. For the four weeks which ended November 28, international same-store activity was up 13%. The huge big box retailer said it had revenue of $6.78 billion…
There were two pieces of important information about the US car industry yesterday. The first is that domestic sales rose 17% in November. The second is that the car industry does not know how…
One out of four residential homes sold in the third quarter of this year was a foreclosed property, RealtyTrac reports. That makes the sales of such residences big business for realtors and the banks…
The document called the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI REMARKS ON PRESERVING INTERNET FREEDOM AND OPENNESS was released recently. Perhaps the most unexpected part of the chairman’s comments was some support for “usage…
The European Central Bank has been strongly pressures to help with the region’s financial crisis (Reuters) Geithner has started to work with Congress on the fate of the Bush tax cuts (Reuters) Regulators and…
The U.S. contributed $13 billion to rebuild Europe after World War II. More than 60 years later, Uncle Sam may ride to the continent’s rescue again. Financial markets reacted Wednesday to a report that…
The Federal Reserve has been forced to disclose its aid to American financial firms during the credit crisis. Ben Bernanke probably wanted to avoid these disclosures, but under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of in A-power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ: APWR), Charming Shoppes, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRS), Mercer…
Cyber Monday sales rose 19.4% from the same day last year according to Coremetrics, which should create a great deal of hope that retail activity this holiday season will be better than expected, especially…
China’s logistics office said that purchasing manufacturing rose once again in November. The index moved up from 54.7 in October to 55.2. Analysts say that the improvement is a good sign for the economy…
More than 2 million people receiving unemployment will lose coverage in December if Congress does not extend their benefits. In a report published in November, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) concluded…