Reuters: The Nielsen survey shows consumer confidence up in the US for the first time since 2007. Reuters: Obama’s financial reforms are advancing in Congress. Reuters: The pay czar said his authority should not…
Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei fel 1.4% to 10,075. Honda (NYSE:HMC) rose on good earnings and Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) are about to announce their results. The Hang Seng fell 1.3%…
It may be that when the stock market is not moving up or down 20% a month that people lose interest. That seems to be the case if the new CNBC ratings are any…
Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) is the clear leader of the private-sector public education companies. Yet, that leadership position is coming with some severe pain after its earnings. Apollo reported that its profit fell…
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is reporting some stellar earnings considering the environment and this appears to be the 6th or 7th beat against estimates. The credit card processing giant posted $0.74 non-GAAP EPS vs.…
The music industry never saw the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPod coming. The iPod was an expensive toy when it was introduced in 2001. There was no reason to think it would do well. Digital multimedia…
We are seeing at least some significant moves from the company’s who have announced that they are grant recipients under part of the $3.4 billion Smart Grid pledge from the Obama administration day. We…
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is set to release its third quarter 2009 earnings results on Wednesday morning before the open and plans to hold a conference call at 10:30 AM EST. Thomson…
The SPDRs (NYSE: SPY) is perhaps the most liquid of all ETF products in the world as it tracks the benchmark S&P 500 Index. One of our affiliates has just posed the very important…
Wind energy is supposed to be one of the key puzzle pieces in the quest to get off the dependence of foreign energy sources. Yet a fairly disturbing story from the Daily Camera in…
All of the optimism from Joe Q. Public may be waning if the most recent data from The Conference Board holds up. Particularly as job anxiety keeps mounting. The October reading fell down to…
Ideation Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: IDI) has been freed up to become SearchMedia, as expected. The special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, issued a release noting that its shareholders approved all of the company’s proposals…
Fiat never managed to sell many cars in the U.S. when it was competing with The Big Three and the Japanese makers, and in 1981 it pulled out of the American market altogether. That…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.21 AM EST: The pricing of the Ancestry.com IPO may be much too high. (BreakingViews). Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social search feature may not include industry leader Facebook (TechCrunch) David…
These are this morning’s top day trader alert stocks on unusual trading volume and price action. We have provided a link through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more details on price and volume…
IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) seems to be recapturing some of its mojo. The online content and online destination and search company noted that asset sales did help profits at a time when advertising revenues were…
By John Tamny In his brilliant 1981 book Reaganomics, economist Bruce Bartlett observed that “to the Keynesians, all tax cuts are the same.” Seeking to show why that was not the case, Bartlett took…
These are the top ten analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Tuesday morning from Wall Street: Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Corinthian…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is coming very close to becoming the preferred smartphone in America, which would topple RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) from the top spot. The new iPhone 3GS is giving the company startling momentum as it…
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s No.1 search engine based on market share, had the same problem Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) does. Its revenue is not growing as fast as it was last year. The critical difference is that Internet use…