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…
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…