Seven Summits Research released its “Critical Alerts” on several companies today including (NASDAQ:EBAY) and Verizon (NASDAQ:VZ) in a lame effort to push its products. The tactic is a weak attempt to get e-mail names from…
The day trader alerts are getting thinner as the holiday trading season nears with fewer participants. These are the top day trader alerts and swing trader alerts were are seeing this morning, and we…
Updated throughout the day. Allen Sanford is on the edge of a nervous breakdown. (Houston Chronicle). Citigroup (NYSE:C) says that The Wall Street Journal is wrong about hackers taking money from client accounts (various).…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is still unloading more Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO) stock. A filing from last night shows that another 87,992 shares were sold at a weighted average price of…
These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHN) Started as Buy at Roth Capital. Cintas Corp. (NASDAQ: CTAS) Cut to…
Two industries expected to post remarkably rapid growth over the next decade are VoIP and biotech. Cable companies and voice providers including Skype and Vonage (NYSE:VG) are expected to damage revenue from the landline businesses…
Treasury Secretary Geithner, who many members of Congress would like to see out of his job, yesterday said that tight credit could derail the nascent economic recovery. “Right now, the real risk we face…
Millions of people in the US contracted the H1N1 flu virus aka swine flu. Almost none of those people died. The WHO and several medical and health organizations in the US believed that H1N1 would be…
The Labor Department says that “mass layoffs”, job cuts of 50 more more people simultaneously, hit a 16 month low in November. Incidents of big downsizing fell to 330 from 1,797 in October. There have…
The movie theater business was supposed to be ruined by TV. Then the VCR was supposed to draw audiences from movie houses, then DVDs, VOD, cable, and internet video. None of that has happened, at least not…
Nielsen says that the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone is the No.1 mobile phone in the US, with a market share of 4%. The number is flawed because the iPhone number includes all models of the…
Reuters: US business investment is rising. Reuters: Another outage shut down RIM’s (NYSE:RIMM) BlackBerry network. Reuters: Geithner said tight lending could hurt US economy. Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) lost an appeal over IP in its…
Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei did not trade due to the holiday. The Hang Seng rose 1.1% to 21323. China Life (NYSE:LFC) rose sharply. The Shanghai Composite was up .8% to 3,074.…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) rose close to 0.5% to a yearly high of $601.50, carried by the momentum of the market. Jabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE: JBL) rose over 14% to a yearly high of…
The yield on the 30-Year Treasury Bond is now over 4.60% and the 10-Year Treasury Note is yielding 3.75%. It was just at the last bond auction that the T-Bond was 4.49% and sold…
There is a key technical event that may be close to occurring in some of the major banking and financial stocks. These have all used the 50-day moving average as a key pivot point…
There was an interesting initial public offering filing last night from ReachLocal, Inc. saying that it plans to come public via an IPO. While no terms were listed, the filing is for up to…
Once thought to be slipping through the recession’s cracks and into oblivion, many special purpose acquisition companies not only succeeded in getting investors to sign off on mergers—some generated substantial value after the deal…
Stephen Burke, the 51-year-old president of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), has to be the new lead choice to become CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) when Warren Buffett retires or dies. Burke was added to the Berkshire board.…
Updated throughout the day. Lehman is paying out big bonuses a year after its collapse. (Bloomberg). Citigroup (NYSE:C) has been hit by hackers who may have stolen millions of dollars (WSJ) Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and…