Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) is showing just how much of a conundrum there is between today’s retail stock valuations and the reality of what to expect from earnings ahead. Macy’s had a narrower loss…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen in the pre-market trading hours. We also included some options color from yesterday. A link has been provided for more detailed analysis…
Updated throughout the day. 11:45 AM EST: Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) may seek to sell its Home & Networking division for about $4.5 billion according to WSJ. -Jon Ogg American Air (NYSE:AMR) may team…
RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) has been under seige these last few weeks. Investors are concerned that the Blackberry maker is losing market share to the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and a new group of handsets using the…
These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Adobe Systems NASDAQ: ADBE) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. Barclays plc (NYSE: BCS) Cut to Hold at…
American Airlines (NYSE:AMR) is competing with Delta (NYSE:DAL) to form a close partnership with financially troubled Japan Air. Both US carriers would like ready access to JAL’s tremendous network of flights around Asia, where…
China’s industrial production was up more than 16% in October. Retail sales were up by about the same percentage, oddly enough. No one was shocked that exports fell a sharp 13.8%. The Chinese recovery is no…
The Holy Grail of consumer electronics is still a smashing success in the video game industry. Tens and tens of millions of Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS2s and PS3s were sold over the last decade. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has turned its…
The CEO of American Express (NYSE:AXP) Kenneth Chenault said that credit card spending by his customer was up 3% in October compared to September and up 1% from October of last year. That is barely…
NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker was well-educated at Harvard. He is well liked by his managers at GE (NYSE:GE). He is well-regarded within the entertainment history. And, NBCU has done almost nothing to distinguish itself within its industry while…
Senator Christopher Dodd put out his draft bill which calls for the most significant overhaul in government financial regulation is over a century. The “Restoring American Financial Stability” document has 1,136 pages, but one…
Short sellers have bought into the notion that the financial industry is in full recovery. Shares sold short in Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) fell 8% to 78.8 million shares. Shares short in CIT (NYSE:CIT) were…
Reuters: Two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were acquited. Reuters: Zucker, NBCU’s current CEO, will head the company when Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) buys a majority of the company from GE (NYSE:GE). Reuters: Dodd’s super-bank regulator fights a…
Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei rose a fraction to 9,871. Japan Air rose on news it may get government funding. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) also rose. The Hang Seng was up 1.6% to 22,627.…
By Douglas A. McIntyre The S&P 500 index is so far having a fine year, up a bit more than 20%. But several big-company stocks in the index have doubled, or better, over that…
Investors are getting a look at why Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) announced that it was getting new partner financing ahead of its quarterly earnings report. The wireless broadband services provider did show a gain…
Priceline.com Inc (NASDAQ: PCLN) surged over 20% to a yearly high of $209.19. The global online travel agency rose after the company forcast that 4Q earnings would be at least $1.52 a share, with…
The recovery is on and mergers are happening, yet the technology sector has been slow to make deals. Despite some deals already having taken place from the technology giants and that $260 billion cash…
The National Association of Realtors is out with its Q3 data on home sales. As you would expect, there is some positive data and some cautious data. The group reported that most states continued…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks with more details and analysis via a link to VSInvestor.com for each stock: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) is up 2% over…