This morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts are in some less common names than what we normally see. These also have links through to VSInvestor.com with more detailed data and analysis: EZchip…
Updated throughout the day. Citigroup (NYSE:C) will be able to avoid about $38 billion in taxes under an agreement with the government (Washington Post) Playboy’s (NYSE:PLA) buyout talks with Iconix have fallen apart (Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS)…
These are Wednesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Started as Outperform at Wells Fargo. Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) Cut to…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM)…
According to Reuters, EU regulators accepted a pledge by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to allow rival Internet browsers on its systems, ending a long antitrust dispute with the U.S. software maker. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said…
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) will offer free Wi-Fi at almost all of its U.S. restaurants starting early next year. Until now, the fast food chain has been charging $2.95 for two hours of service. McDonald’s U.S.A.…
Caveat emptor. Abu Dhabi agreed to buy $7.5 billion in Citigroup (NYSE:C) shares at about eight times the current price. According to Bloomberg, that desert nation’s major fund “invested in November 2007, getting equity…
The deal to save Playboy (NYSE:PLA), which has been in decline for years, appears to have fallen apart. Iconix Brands wanted the Playboy brand, one of the most visible in the world, but had…
AT&T (NYSE:T) is running out of potential customers to sell wireless handset subscriptions. The US market is nearly saturated and the battle is mostly for market share with Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ)(NYSE:VOD), Sprint (NYSE:S), and…
Some of the largest websites in the country had extraordinary swings in their audiences in 2009. Many of the most well-known web destinations lost large portions of their traffic Based on data from Hitwise comparing US…
Holiday sales seemed to be off to a promising start. Online research firms including comScore said that e-commerce sales were up 3% to 4% through the first week of December. The government said store-based shopping…
People do not have an interest in buying homes in foreclosure at anywhere near the level that they did earlier this year. Trulia.com and RealtyTrac released the latest results of an ongoing survey tracking…
Reuters: Galleon’s Raj Rajaratnam was indicted for securities fraud. Reuters: Concerns about interest rates hurt the markets. Reuters: Inconix broke off buyout talks with Playboy (NYSE:PLA). Reuters: Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) settled a US probe.
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei .9% to 10,177. Mitshbishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) rose. The Hang Seng dropped 1.2% to 21,564. Bank of China (NASDAQ:CHINA) fell. The Shanghai Composite was down .6% to 3,255.…
The stock market was badly rocked by the perception that the economy in the euro zone may be recovering much more slowly than the rest of the world. The crisis in Dubai may be…
The solar energy sector has been beaten down for the better part of the last year. There have been concerns about over-supply of product and low demand because of the economy. JA Solar (NASDAQ:JASO)…
Small biopharma stocks sometimes have that one big day, the day that there investors wait for. Array Biopharma (NASDAQ:ARRY) moved higher by 30% early in the day to $3.11. The little firm entered into an…
Updated throughout the day. The senior management at AIG (NYSE:AIG) is broke because of losses on stock and low compensation. (WSJ) Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will get a new CEO from inside the company …
This morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts are below with links to VSInvestor.com on each stock story with more detailed data and analysis: Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is up 2%…
These are this Tuesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls: American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Arcelor Mittal (NYSE: MT) Raised to…