Tickerspy’s Stem Cell Stock Index (*RSXTM) took off today, rising nearly 13%. The movement followed a release from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcing that 13 embryonic stem cell lines were approved for…
The Federal Reserve Board’s Beige Book has offered a dismal report and dismal outlook for what is roughly two years now. That can’t be a shock considering how crummy the economy and job prospects…
Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) has an interesting approach in M&A today. The deal is a tiny merger valued at $44 million when you consider that Reynolds has almost a $15 billion market cap,…
24/7 Wall St. has prepared its list of the ten brands that will disappear in 2010. This list is based on a review of each firm’s financial situation and other operating data, the current…
Standard & Poor’s is making several index changes in the coming trading days. While Regal Beloit Corp. (NYSE: RBC) and Allegiant Travel Co. (NASDAQ: ALGT) are moving up in the S&P Indexes, the big…
The Department of Energy has just released its new weekly data on oil inventories. The headline data looks good for those wanting lower oil prices, but there is actually some very mixed data in…
CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) has been under pressure for increasing its bid for the Nortel optical networking unit in the Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) bankruptcy. But now there is a stalking horse potentially via…
This morning we have another flurry of secondary offerings that are hitting the market. Today’s tally comes to what looks like more than $500 million being absorbed by the public equity markets. These offerings…
Updated throughout the day. Vivendi will get no upfront cash from GE (NYSE:GE) for the sale of its stake in NBCU (Reuters) More that one of the candidates for the Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)…
These are this Wednesday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks with links to VSInvestor.com for more detailed data and analysis: Diedrich Coffee Inc. (NASDAQ: DDRX) is up again as the buyout wars…
These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning: American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank. Arris Group…
It does not say much for the future of plans to rebuild Bank of America NYSE:(BAC) that major candidates for the CEO position question the board’s strategy for running the firm. Many of the…
It would have been preposterous to say the DJIA could close the year at 12,000 back in March when it dropped below 6,600. The market is up 60% since then and trades at nearly…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will allow online publishers to limit the number of stories that Google News runs from them each day, a victory for some publishers who think that giving away free content is bad for…
Measurements from online research site Experian Hitwise show that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been the most visited e-commerce site during the holiday shopping season since 2006. It is in the process of extending that lead and its…
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) claims that 84% of the shareholders of its takeover target Tandberg have voted for the sales of the company. Cisco has said that if it does not have 90% of Tandberg shareholder support…
There are a number of reasons that current GM Chairman and former AT&T (NYSE:T) chief Ed Whitacre is an extremely poor choice to run the car company. The most obvious is that he has…
Reuters: The GM board pushed out CEO Henderson. Reuters: Bernanke will defend the Fed’s record and his before Congress. Reuters: China will let foreigners set up limited partnerships. Reuters: Manufacturing is growing again but…
Market is Asia were higher. The Nikkie rose .3% to 9,609. The Hang Seng was up .7% to 22,267. Geely Auto hit an all-time high. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.1% to 3,270. At…
Nintendo (NTDOY) had a major winner on its hands with the Wii gaming system. Yet no fad lasts forever. It has been known for some time that the Wii gaming system was falling victim…