We have long said that this Q3 period was likely to separate the men from the boys in the solar sector. Unfortunately, none of the men looked stronger than the boys. Tonight’s earnings report…
Much of today’s weakness in the equity markets is not just due to a stronger dollar or an equity market that still may be ahead of itself. A strategist call from Goldman Sachs Group…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and its ‘new’ navigation via Google Maps Navigation is putting the hurt on the GPS competitors. Trimble Navigation (NASDAQ: TRMB) posted income of $15.6 million, a 60% drop, in its…
If you are often in major airports, it is frankly hard to see how the airline carriers still have pressure compared to six to twelve months ago. The airports and planes are full to…
This week marks the launch of two new exchange traded funds, both of which intend to offer investors a direct hedge against inflation. IndexIQ introduced the IQ CPI Inflation Hedged ETF (NYSE: CPI) and…
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has lost that massive stock surge that we saw for what felt like way too long throughout 2009. There are two key analyst calls that now may act as an…
We have just seen this week’s latest Department of Energy weekly oil inventory data. The new report is on the heels of a sudden rise in oil prices followed by an almost just as…
The Commerce Department has just shown a report that new home sales for the month of September turned south. This may increase the call for that first time home buyer $8,000.00 tax credit, but…
SPACupdate.com has been bringing 24/7 Wall Street waves of data on the resurgence of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. After a string of successful mergers, two coming to vote by the end of…
We have just seen a biotech company named Aldagen, Inc. file for an initial public offering of common stock. This will trade under the proposed stock ticker “ALDH” on NASDAQ. The company is developing…
Updated throughout the day. Update 12.05 PM EST: UBS (NYSE:UBS) may spin off PaineWebber (Breakingviews) GMAC has asked the Treasury Department for several billion more dollars in loans. (NYTimes) Barry Diller’s IACI (NASDAQ:IACI) might be willing to…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts from us with links through to updates and more detailed price-volume analysis with a link to each stock at VSInvestor.com: Advanced Micro Devices…
Durable Goods for the month of September did come in positive, but under expectations. As a reminder, this is the most volatile of all of the large economic numbers. Orders came in at +1%…
We have two initial public offerings today. We have a poor pricing from Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) and a solid pricing from a Blackstone interest in the Vitamin Shoppe Inc. (NYSE: VSI) IPO.…
These are this Wednesday’s top 10 seen analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations which we have seen from Wall Street research calls: AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL)…
A new analysis from The Wall Street Journal shows that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg raised the salaries of most of the executives over which he has jurisdiction. The paper reports that base salaries climbed…
The new Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence poll taken during the first two weeks of the month shows that the US had its first positive numbers since 2007. Reuters was given an early release of…
The very most important corporate earnings for the last quarter are, with few exceptions, out now and October unemployment numbers will be released in a week. Third quarter GDP figures will be released any…
Consumer Reports came out with its annual new car reliability survey. The study is widely anticipated because it pre=”it “>is based on the opinions of 1.4 million people and because the Consumers Union is considered…
Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU) is a retail and commercial coffee vendor. Its stock has soared more than 500% this year, well outperforming its peer group. 24/7 Wall St. had an opportunity to interview the company’s President…