Nintendo Rules And Video Game Sales Rebound
The Nintendo Wii and the company’s ancient DS were supposed to be nearly dead, leaving the door ajar for huge market share gains by the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3. It did not…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
The Bank Tax Is The First Tax Of Many
The Administration is proposing that large banks pay a tax based on .15% of total assets minus high-quality capital, such as common stock, and disclosed and retained earnings. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.-covered deposits and…
Media Digest 1/15/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: China says there are ways to resolve problems with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), but the US is uncertain. Reuters: Oil fell to $79 over concerns about the US economy. Reuters: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) earnings beat expectations.…
Asia Markets And Europe Open (1/15/2010)
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei .7% to 10,982. The Hang Seng fell .3% to 21.654. The Shanghai Composite was up .3% to 3,224. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was down…
Spying on JPMorgan Chase Earnings (JPM, BAC, GS, WFC, XLF, FAS)
Jamie Dimon and friends over at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) will kick off the earnings season for the major money center banks and too-big-to-fail institutions on Friday in the early morning hours. …
Haiti Donations, Company-by-Company (MS, JPM, BAC, GS, JEF, WFC, WMT, TGT, RAD, MCD, YUM, KO, PEP, K, GIS, GOOG, DIS, CA, T, VZ, WU, MGI, UTX, UPS, ABT, AMGN, HUM)
We have compiled from press releases and from company announcements a company-by-company donation and effort pledge to help in the relief efforts after the disastrous earthquake in Haiti. These are partial explanations of the…
Fifteen Percent Unemployment For Two More Years
The chart that shows what the Congressional Budget Office believes the unemployment level will be is buried deep in the one of the charts in the new “The Policies For Increasing Economic Growth And…
Intel’s Beat & Raise (INTC, AMD, MSFT, SMH)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) had a great day ahead of its earnings report today based upon expectations that it would beat earnings and raise guidance. The processor and chip giant just proved the sentiment…
Vonage Loses Its CFO (VG)
Vonage Holdings Corporation (NYSE: VG) just disclosed in an SEC filing something that many investors do not like to see, even if it is in small stocks. The company noted, “John Rego, Executive Vice…
Previewing Intel Earnings Fallout (INTC, AMD, MSFT, SMH)
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…
Energy Companies Raising More Cash (BRY, BWEN, KYN, MWE, REXX)
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…
Schwab New ETFs Hit Small-Cap and Emerging Markets (SCHW, SCHC, SCHE)
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…
Kodak Going After Apple & R-I-M, Yesterday’s Trading Beware (EK, AAPL, RIMM)
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…
Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/14/2010) (YHOO)(VZ)
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…
Top Day Trader Alerts (AONE, SAP, ORCL, ROSG, SEED, EK)
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…
Jobless Data Heads Wrong Direction
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…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMZN, BAC, BDX, CMG, GOOG, JPM, RAX, LEN, TSN, TOL, WFC)
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…
Obama To Hit Big Banks With 10 Years Of Fees
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…
Google Could Say It’s Sorry
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) May Be Too Small To Win Cadbury (CBY)
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…