Ideation Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: IDI) gave us a volume spike alert over at VSInvestor.com, and it is very unusual to see a special purpose acquisition company suddenly have exponential trading volume. The company has…
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) has cut prices on products from food to book downloads to toys. It offers $4 prescriptions at its in-store pharmacies. Does the world’s largest retailer make any money on these products? It…
Nuveen has been the largest player in single-state municipal bond closed-end and open-end bond funds for years and years. If you look in Barron’s each week under closed-end mutual funds data to find premium/discount…
Claymore Securities is launching a new exchange-traded fund for investors to get one more method exposure to the Chinese stock market. The new ETF is the Claymore/AlphaShares China All-Cap ETF (NYSE: YAO), and is…
SPACupdate.com has provided 24/7 Wall Street with some exclusive coverage on key issues coming up in the realm of special purpose acquisition companies. 2020 ChinaCap Acquirco (NASDAQ: TTY; NASDAQ: EDS) is on deck for…
Updated throughout the day Updated 3.34 PM EST: Consensus figures for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) earnings may be significantly too high (Barron’s) Updated 1.14 PM EST: The whisper number for Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) is $1.47 EPS compared to…
These are this morning’s top day trader alert stocks with more detailed data on price, volume, and further analysis with links to each stock over at VSInvestor.com: Allion Healthcare, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALLI) and iPCS,…
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) has finally figured a way to cure its affiliate lawsuits. The wireless operator is acquiring iPCS, Inc. (NASDAQ: IPCS) in a merger valued at approximately $831 million, including the…
by John Tamny of Forbes In 2001 the late Jude Wanniski observed in the American Spectator that “Only when we fully grasp the importance of this definition of inflation or deflation will we be…
These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Monday morning from Wall Street research notes: Accenture (NYSE: ACN) Cut to Neutral at UBS. Air Tran Holdings (NYSE: AAI)…
Google (GOOG) says it now has two million customers using its Apps products. The online software offers many of the features of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows, but operates on Google’s servers instead of on the…
The press and Congress have been unkind to the SEC for the last two years. It has been blamed for missing the trading activity of Bernie Madoff and for not properly regulating the banking and…
Wall St. believes that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will make $1.42 a share for the quarter that just ended on $9.2 billion in revenue. Both figures would be well over 10% higher than a year ago.…
Signs are pointing to another bailout of Japan Airlines by the Tokyo-based government. That means the carrier could survive without being broken into pieces. JAL is still prized for its significant and presumably lucrative…
Oil reached $79.05 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That is almost certainly not the end of its rise and for a number of reasons $90 crude is likely on the way…
Reuters: US corporations are concerned about the weakness of the dollar. Reuters: Bernanke says that global imbalances in trade and cash flows must be addressed. Reuters: Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is attacking new markets with huge…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was down .2% to 10,237. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) rose. The Hang Seng was up 1.1% to 22,179. CNOOC (NYSE:CEO) and PetroChina (NYSE:PTR) rose. The Shanghai Composite was…
The UK, home of John Maynard Keynes, has added a new term to the lexicon of descriptions of possible recovery patterns that could end the current global recession. It is the”VW-shaped” recession, and, unlike…
Senior members of the Administration were out in force on the Sunday TV talk shows to criticize the multi-million bonuses that many Wall St. bankers will get this year. Executives at companies that still owe…
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App store offers an extraordinarily large number of downloads–more than 85,000. The store has downloaded more than two billion piece of software. Developers are constantly creating new application in the hope of offering free services…