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…
It wasn’t that long ago that we gave a list of stocks that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) needed to dump to help pay for its Burlington Northern Santa Fe (NYSE: BNI)…
Lower oil prices and a resurgent economy should help the airlines post improved results in 2010, but that expectation is hardly true. The industry lost $11 billion in 2010. The International Air Transport Association…
Corporate IT spending will pick up in the first quarter of 2010. That is the finding of a new research survey from ChangeWave. A total of 1,753 respondents involved with corporate IT spending in their…
Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) will pay back TARP funds. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) says it will be disciplined in its Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) buyout effort. Reuters: Some of AIG’s (NYSE:AIG) top staff are struggling…
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was off .2% to 10,083. The Hang Seng fell 1.2% to 21,814. The Shanghai Composite was off .9% to 3,274. At the open in Europe, The FTSE was…
The DJIA went above 10,500 for the first time in fourteen months yesterday. That is an impressive move from under 6,550 in early March. It is easy to argue that such a surge is…
Citigroup’s (NYSE:C) announcement that it will pay back its TARP funds was not enough news for the day from the banking sector. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will not hire Robert Kelly current CEO of…
The Top Fifty websites based on their percent of US online visits from January to November 2009 are dominated by search and e-mail. The top dozen sites according to data from Hitwise include the Yahoo!…
California Micro Devices Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMD) surged over 53.11% to a yearly high of $4.67 after the chipmaker agreed to be bought out by ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN) for $4.70 a share. Visa…
M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began to make capital available…
Charles Schwab Corp.(NASDAQ: SCHW) is acting as a drag on the online brokerage firms today. Schwab warned that its fourth quarter results would come in weak due to lower trading volumes and due to…