Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is probably going to set the tone and set the bar of expectations for most large technology stocks this earnings season. Thomson Reuters has estimates for this afternoon of $0.30…
We have already seen a flood of secondary offerings from many companies in many sectors either sold or filed this week. The strong market is giving many companies a window to raise cash, and…
Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW) has launched two new ETF products today. The Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF (NYSE: SCHC) and the Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF (NYSE: SCHE) have begun trading. The new…
Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) was a huge mover yesterday on no news. The trading was actually muted, but it was the huge amount of options trading that came in the form of the…
Updated throughout the day. Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWX) may announce a dividend (Barron’s) Soros Management will open a Hong Kong office. (Bloomberg) The AP and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) are close to cutting a content deal…
These are this Thursday’s top early bird day trader and active trader alert stocks moving on unusual volume. We have more detail and analysis on VSInvestor.com and we have provided a link to each…
The Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims data. The figure came in as a gain of 11,000 in the jobless line at 444,000. We had a consensus expected from Bloomberg as being…
These are Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised target to $160 from $130 at Barclays. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) Started…
The Obama Administration plans to levy fees on large banks for the next ten years or until the money invested in the financial system through the TARP is entirely repaid. Several news sources say…
News reports say that there was a great deal of testiness in the conversations among top managers at Google (GOOG) about whether it should threaten to pull out of the Chinese market or be…
Hershey (HSY) is once again mentioned frequently as a buyer of Cadbury (CBY). To win a competition it would have to top the $16.6 billion offer from Kraft (KFT) Cadbury shares already trade above the…
There is absolutely no sign that the foreclosure problem in the US is even close to an end point. Data from RealtyTrac shows that there were 3,957,643 foreclosure filings last year, a record. The…
The news about PC sales market share in the US never seems to change. HP (HPQ) widens its lead. Dell falters. Asian manufacturers show regular improvement. David Daoud, research manager with IDC’s U.S. Quarterly PC…
Reuters: China defended itself against Google’s (GOOG) censorship changes. Reuters: Regulators will face the panel looking at the credit crisis causes. Reuters: The capex outlook in Japan is weak. Reuters: US foreclosures shattered a…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.6% to 10,908. The Hang Seng was off .2% to 21,717. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.4%. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was up .7%…
This has already been delayed and rumored, but it appears that oil magnate T. Boone Pickens has given up on his northern Texas Pampa Wind Farm power project. The economics do not work. The…
LaBranche & Co. Inc. (NYSE: LAB) has been rumored to be making a serious change or sale for some time. Tonight, that was partially confirmed. The company has signed a sale agreement to sell…
Economists, investors, traders, and speculators have looked for each clue as to just when the FOMC is going to end this zero-rate policy on interest rates. Usually, it is a peer through the minutes…
Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) has been one of the greatest American brands and great American success stories…. of our parents’ lives. For the last decade this has been a perpetual turnaround story with…
The latest short interest numbers were released last night after the close. Overall, short positions dropped into the year end. However, there are still many stocks in short squeezes due to stubborn shorts pressing…