eBay Crashes on Saturday (EBAY)
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is having an issue which may have just cost sellers millions and millions of dollars in untold profits today. After doing random searches today on Christmas present purchases and with eBay…
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It Looks More Likely GE (GE) May Keep NBCU, Force Job Cuts
With the passing of each hour, there are more media reports that talks between GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi for the French company to sell its 20% of NBCU to the American conglomerate have moved closer to collapse.…
Barnes & Noble (BKS) Runs Out Of E-Readers: Amazon (AMZN) Stands Alone
Sony (NYSE:SNE) said it might not have its e-reader, the Daily Edition Reader, ready to ship before Christmas. It has given customers a range of dates for availability of its product that could be as early…
52-Week High Club (DDS, DBRN, SJM, MRK)
Dillard’s Inc. (NYSE: DDS) rose as high as over 10% to a yearly high of $15.79 after the department-store chain was upgraded by Deutsche Bank AG. Dress Barn Inc. (NASDAQ: DBRN) rose as…
Unusual Friday Options Activity (AAPL, GOOG, BAC, LEAP, PCS, DRYS, YHOO)
We have seen some unusual options trading today. As you would expect, some is around today’s 4:00 PM close with today being options expiration date. But some bets are way out into 2011 and…
Next Week’s Top 10 Earnings on Deck (HPQ, TSN, CPB, LDK, TECD, BKS, BGP, JCG, DLTR, DE)
Earnings season has mostly wound down, but as always at least some major companies are reporting earnings. Some are actually market-movers as well and it is a short week with earnings out only Monday…
Rig Count Growth Mostly Positive (BHI, OIH, DIG, USO, OIL)
Baker Hughes, Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has released its data on the weekly rig counts and most are up. We are watching the key ETF products react via the Oil Services HOLDRs (NYSE: OIH), the…
The Palm Margin Squeeze (PALM, S, AMZN, WMT)
Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has sort of already fallen from grace despite all the hype behind the Palm Pre. Throw in that Pixi too. Discounting is trumping what may be weaker sales. It turns…
Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/20/2009) (GS)(JAVA)
Updated throughout the day. GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi are at odds over the NBCU valuation (FT) IBM (NYSE:IBM) is taking advantage of the delay in the Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) deal to be bought by Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) (TheStreet)…
Top Day Trader Alerts (BCRX, DELL, DRYS, NVAX, WCRX)
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alerts early this Friday morning. We have links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more data and analysis on each: BioCryst Pharmaceuticals,…
Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, BRCM, DDS, D, INTC, MRVL, BTU, RTP, STP, TXN)
These are Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning in Wall Street research calls: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ:…
South Korea Continues To Best US In Auto Trade
The AP reports that South Korean auto groups claim that the Asian country exported 600,000 cars and light trucks to the US last year. Only 7,000 American autos were sold in South Korea during that…
Microsoft (MSFT) Claims Windows 7 Is Major Success
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the company’s annual shareholder meeting that Windows 7 sales were astonishingly high. According to a Wall Street Journal account of the gathering, “Microsoft Corp. has sold twice…
Vivendi Disputes Value Of GE’s (GE) NBCU Business
The much-anticipated deal for Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to take control of the NBC Universal division of GE (NYSE:GE) may die next week . Vivendi, which owns 20% of NBCU, believes that the entertainment and news company is worth…
Big Goldman Sachs (GS) Shareholders Fight Bonuses
A number of large Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) shareholders would like to see the firm’s profits in their pockets and not in the bank accounts of the Goldman partners. The Wall Street Journal reports that…
The Federal Reserve Vs. Ron Paul
There is a rumor that has been around Hollywood for decades that some of the greatest silent film comedy scripts were created by screen writers who would bribe wardens at a local insane asylum…
Media Digest 11/20/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: The Senate is near its first vote on healthcare. Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is betting on corporate spending for its recovery. Reuters: Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) AOL showed that the worst is not over for…
Asia Markets And Europe Open (11/20/2009)
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was down .5% to 9,498. Sony NYSE:SNE) fell after its investor meeting. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) gained back some losses. The Hang Seng fell .7% to 22,451. The Shanghai…
Pimco’s Gross Says Buy Utilities
PIMCO’s chief Bill Gross puts out a regular letter in which he shares his investment advice with the public. Invoking the memory of Will Rogers, a Depression-era comic, Gross describes the recent upheaval in the…
52-Week High Club (DCI, NTAP, TSL)
Donaldson Company Inc (NYSE: DCI) rose over 8.5% to a yearly high of $45.19 after the air filter maker reported 3Q earnings of $0.45 per share, beating analyst estimates. NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP)…