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…
Not too many years ago, one senior newspaper executive said that there was nothing wrong with cutting costs but that, eventually, a company could cut so much that it would disappear up its own…
Wall St. likes financial statements that give it deep insights into a company’s operations, especially its liabilities. It likes boards that make sure shareholders get as complete a picture as possible of a firm’s…
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…
Short interest in a number of major financial firms rose for the period ending October 15. Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 51% to 178.1 million. The short interest in CIT (NYSE:CIT) was up…
Reuters: UBS (NYSE:UBS) will put in a new US chief. Reuters: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) says “dark pools” help investors. Reuters: The US is welcoming the rise of the yuan. Retuers: Nelson Peltz’s board seat…
Markets in Asia were sharply lower. The Nikkei fell 1.5% to 10,212. Honda fell (NYSE:HMC). The Hang Seng was down 1.7% to 22,197. China Life (NYSE:LFC) rose. The Shanghai Composite was down 2.8% to…
Rumor has it that several auctioneers collapsed from exhaustion during the four-day process of selling 9,000 homes and properties which have been seized by tax collectors in Wayne Country, Michigan. Detroit sits inside the borders…
DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) posted what some may take as mixed earnings despite the stock’s reaction in the after-hours session. The headline figure looked disappointing at first with a report of $35.6 million net…
Sometimes special dividends make sense, and sometimes they do not. Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) traded lower most of the trading day after the fertilizer and potash giant declared a special cash dividend of $1.30…
DryShips, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is set to report earnings this afternoon. Calling this one the more volatile stocks in a volatile space would be redundant at a minimum. While we are cautious in about…
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) appears to not be slowing down on its solar ambitions, or at least not as much as we might have all guessed about six months ago when new expansions…
Daily circulation at the nation’s newspapers dropped 10% for the six months ending September 30 according to industry measurement service Audit Bureau of Circulations. It is not clear whether newspapers are helping themselves by…
SPACupdate.com provides daily reports and e-mails covering blank checks, their targets and relevant trading data. Monday and Tuesday, a pair of mergers will go to shareholders for a vote. Capitol Acquisition Co. (AMEX: CLA)…