Financial stocks were already looking mixed at best early this morning with the largest offering in capital markets history pricing last night for a trade today. But Meredith Whitney, of her own Meredith Whitney…
These are this Thursday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Tower Corp. (NYSE: AMT) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank. Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMLN) Started as…
Almost every business in the world that has hardware devices that run customized software want to create their own version of the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store. Apple claims that developers have created nearly 200,000…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that roughly 20% of American, 60 million people, were without health insurance at some point between the beginning of 2008 and now. The results of the…
The Wall Street Journal pointed out that many people are defaulting on their home mortgages not because they have to but because it makes sense. Some homeowners can afford the monthly payment, but they…
The fun part of the holiday season that involves getting things on sale may be ending. Retailers have managed their inventories better than they did last year. Large stores will not be stuck with huge…
New data from search firm Spencer Stuart shows that members of the boards of three American public companies make more than $100,000 a meeting. Two of the first are not terribly well-known– Intuitive Surgical…
The only chance that Republican House members and other Congressmen have to cap the rise of new spending bills is to put a ceiling on the national debt. There are simply too many expensive…
Early this year most solar stocks traded at multi-year lows. There were concerns that the demand for solar energy installations was being hurt by the recession and that component costs for solar installations where…
Reuters: Obama’s poll ratings on the economy dropped. Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) picked insider Brian Moynihan as CEO. Reuters: Bernanke’s confirmation should pass its first hurdle. Reuters: The US delayed selling some of…
Markets in Asia were lower. The fell .1% to 10,163. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) fell. The Hang Seng was down 1.5% to 21,305. The Shanghai Composite was lower by 2.3% to 3,179. At the open…
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) was already in our “top after-hours trading movers” because of weakness in its share price on the discounted secondary offering. That is no longer conjecture. Citi’s secondary offering is for…
We have several key movers in the after-hours trading session tonight. We have more details for price and volume analysis and comparison data on each stock with a link over to VSInvestor.com: First Solar,…
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has laid out its 2010 financial guidance, and it announced plans to add eight production lines at its manufacturing center in Kulim, Malaysia starting production in first half of…
Team Health Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TMH) did not drop out of the chute, but many are going to say that Team took one for the team. The company priced 13.3 million shares in an…
Short sellers could be on the run here in several retailers. Each day our software tracks stocks that have high short interest and are either short squeezes or potential short squeezes in a real…
Ben Bernanke may be Time Magazine’s person of the year. But today Bernanke was listed as the market watchdog of the day because the FOMC voted to keep rates steady at the same 0.00%…
2009 has been far from an IPO-packed year compared to other years in this decade. Ditto for mergers and acquisitions. Many of the IPOs that price earlier in 2009 have done well while many…
There is some mixed data from the Department of Energy on its weekly inventory data today, although the negatives here seem to outweigh the gains. We are watching the Oil Services HOLDRs (NYSE: OIH),…
The FTC has brought a case against Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) which has now been accused of monopolistic behavior in Europe, the State of New York, and the United States. The FTC claims that Intel used…