Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) posted earnings after Street consensus was $3.78 billion in revenue and $1.04 a share. Guidance was for $3.6 billion to $3.85 billion and EPS of $1 to $1.08. As it turned…
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) has posted its earnings at $0.29 EPS on a GAAP basis, but $0.39 EPS on a non-GAAP basis. Revenues were $5.86 billion for the quarter. Thomson Reuters had estimates pegged…
A-Power Energy Generation Systems (NASDAQ: APWR) rose over 10.3% to a yearly high of $20.60 after the Chinese power system manufacturer announced that it signed a deal to supply turbines to a 600 megawatt…
It seems that the huge game-changing deal between Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and XTO Energy Inc. (NYSE: XTO) may have more than just one risk associated with it. The acquisition, announced on Monday,…
If there was a single trading event for investors, traders, and speculators from early October to early December, it was not stocks and was not bonds. It was not even the bet against the…
Moody’s Investors Service has raised the bias and outlook on the U.S. homebuilder sector this morning. Its report was titled “U.S. Homebuilding Industry Shows Signs of Stability” and the ratings agency raised the sector’s…
Sen. Ted Kaufman may be the most self-aggrandizing member of Congress. His office sends out press releases ever few days about his stances on the financial services industry and other items he thinks the…
These are this Thursday’s top day trader alerts and active trader alerts. We have links to more details and analysis over at VSInvestor.com for each stock: First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is up about…
Updated throughout the day. Tudor Investments will close its largest fund to investors (Bloomberg) Steve Cohen of SAC made money illegally trading on the RCA buyout by GE (NYSE:GE) (Cohen’s ex-wife) Apollo Management will…
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…