Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is seeing perhaps the largest trading session of its sort. The notion that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) might be out of China almost entirely represents a huge opportunity for the…
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) has quite a lot of surrounding influences around its stock, but most importantly around its products. The company said it became aware of cyber-attacks against corporate network systems managed…
The end of 2009 was marked by many companies selling stock via public secondary offerings. 2010 has not seen the floodgates open wide, but the secondary offerings are coming. We have offerings sold or…
Updated throughout the day. The Obama budget could include spending cuts (Reuters) Obama will annouce fees for 20 banks to pay back TARP and reduce the deficit (Bloomberg) Adobe’s (NASDAQ:ADBE) software may be been…
salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) may be closer to hitting the acquisition trail. The company has sold $500 million in 0.75% convertible senior notes (unsecured, unsubordinated obligations) due in 2015 in a private placement to qualified…
These are this Wednesday morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in major Wall Street research calls: Baidu, inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank; Raised to Buy at UBS. BHP…
These are today’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen with large price and volume moves in the pre-market. We have more details on analysis and data on a link to VSInvestor.com for…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the companies that sell software for the iPhone and iPod touch at the App Store have lost over $450 million to piracy since the store opened in July 2008 according to an…
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced poor earnings and its stock fell more than 11% ending the session on January 12th at $15.52. Some superstitious traders believe that because Alcoa is the first large American company to…
The concern that the Japanese economy has reached a point of stagnation has grown recently as its fourth quarter GDP figures failed to show a substantial recovery. More analysts have questioned the power of Japanese…
Iceland and Dubai have already reneged on foreign debt obligations. There is a growing concern about similar trouble with the debt of Greece, Spain, and several Eastern European nations. Credit agencies downgraded the debt of a…
When the Administration fought to get a $787 billion stimulus package from Congress early last year, it committed itself to using the money to create or save 3.5 million American jobs. The White House…
Short sellers sharply increased their bets against two of America’s most widely followed stocks. Shares sold short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 36% to 381 million. The short interest in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) | AAPL Price…
Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may leave China due to attempts to hack into its service there. Reuters: Oil dropped below $80 on US inventory news. Reuters: China markets fear tighter money policies from the government…
Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei dropped 1.3% to 10,735. Toyota (NYSE:TM) fell. The Hang Seng was off 2.6% to 21,749. The Shanghai Composite fell 3.1% to 3,173. At the open in Europe,…
Linear Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: LLTC) is actually the first of the real semiconductor sector stocks to report earnings this January for the quarter-end of December 2009. The maker of linear integrated circuits reported earnings…
John Thain, former co-president of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and CEO of The New York Stock Exchange and Merrill Lynch, who was virtually shamed into retirement after Merrill was bought by Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), may become…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) made a threat to China which does not have a precedent in the actions of any other US company. It threatened to pull its business from China due to potential cyber attacks on…
Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) has approved the spin off of Madison Square Garden to Cablevision shareholders. Madison Square Garden is the home venue of the New York Knicks and Rangers, but is also…
Cadbury plc (NYSE: CBY) may have just found out that it might need to be a bit more receptive to Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) in the buyout process, if it even wants to…