The board and management of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) succumbed to the extraordinary outcry against the size of bonuses at the firm, some of which will certainly range into the tens of millions of dollars.…
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) cellular carrier for the iPhone in China, China Unicom (NYSE:CHU), said that it sold only 100,000 of the handsets in the 40 days after they went on sales. iPhoneAsia first reported the numbers.…
The second half of November showed somewhat of a mixed bag in short selling activity in the universe of our actively traded and more prominent solar stocks. We saw a gain in short selling…
The U.S. trade deficit decreased $2.7 billion $32.9 billion in October as a result of exports growing more than imports. Exports grew $3.4 billion while imports grew $745 million. Gains in exports were led…
The headlines this morning are that short interest rose a tiny bit on the NYSE and fell on NASDAQ. However, after looking closer into the numbers a different story is being told for the…
Updated throughout the day. Citigroup (NYSE:C) talks with the government about TARP payments are still pending (CNBC) The head of GM’s Buick division has left after eight days on the job. (Bloomberg) There is…
This morning’s top day day trader alerts are out and we have links on each story over to VSInvestor.com with more detailed analysis and data on each: Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) is down about…
The Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims data and again we have a reading south of 500,000. The claims rose 17,000 to 474,000 versus a Bloomberg target of 460,000. That reverses…
Branding counts. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could probably do well selling tea pots. Sharper Image is still around, but its brand is so tarnished that it could not give away many of the ultra-modern home utilities…
By John Tamny of Forbes With the federal government’s measure of unemployment in the double digits, President Obama has unsurprisingly moved job creation to the top of his list of initiatives. And while his…
These are ten of the most important analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. You will probably notice a substantial focus on media-related shares: AOL Inc. (NYSE:…
Tiger Woods has lost a lot of his friends, at least among the public. A new Rasmussen survey released today reports that a national telephone survey found that just 38% of Americans now have a favorable opinion…
It may be another sign of a bottoming in the housing market, both in terms of foreclosures and prices. RealtyTrac reports that foreclosure filings fell 8% in November compared to the previous month, down…
Many Indian tribes have creates substantial businesses by building casinos on their land. The income from these operations is largely exempt from taxes. The casino business has been hit hard by the recession, especially…
Blockbuster (NYSE:BBI) has failed in the online DVD rental business and movie internet streaming business. The traffic to its thousands of stores is dropping rapidly and its cannot close locations fast enough. Long-term leases…
Washington has looked at the idea of taxing the rich to help pay for the healthcare reform package. The UK is taxing well-to-do bankers taking 50% of their 2009 bonuses above a threshold of…
Reuters: Dubai said the market’s perceptions of its problems is “softening.” Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) could sell $20 billion in shares soon. Reuters: Hershey (NYSE:HSY) is near a decision on Cadbury (NYSE:CBY). Reuters: GM named…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 1.4% to 9,863. The Hang Seng fell .2% to 21,692. The Shanghai Composite rose .5% to 3,254. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was up…
Short sellers sharply increased their gamble that financial stocks would fall based on short selling data from NYSE and Nasdaq on the last day of November. Shorts pushed into Citigroup (NYSE:C), increasing their positions…
3M Company (NYSE: MMM) rose nearly 4% to a yearly high of $79.93 after the Post-It Notes maker was upgraded to “buy” by Jeffrey Sprague of Citigroup. The Cooper Companies Inc (NYSE: COO) surged…