Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) is showing that wind energy is not as dead as many might have you believe. This morning the company issued a press release showing that wind power orders are still…
Private equity firms keep exiting their old buyouts when they can. This morning we have an initial public offering from RailAmerica, Inc. (NYSE: RA) for some 22,000,000 shares of common stock. This is being…
Last week the SEC announced that it intended to appeal the dismissal of insider trading charges against Mark Cuban. Cuban is accused of having sold his stake in Mamma.com after the company’s chief executive officer…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) was certainly anxious to buy Starent Networks (NASDAQ:STAR). It paid $35 a share for the supplier of IP-based mobile infrastructure solutions. Starent closed at $29 yesterday. Cisco expects the acquisition…
These are this morning’s top day trader alert stocks. We have more detailed price and volume analysis on each stock link over at VSInvestor.com: CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is getting crushed and is…
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is now effectively without a CEO. The troubled financial company has just announced that Jeffrey M. Peek informed CIT’s board of directors of his plans to resign. This resignation…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 3.14 PM EST: STIC (NASDAQ:STIC) dropping on rumors that Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) database applications may hurt STIC sales (Barron’s) Updated 3.11 PM EST: Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT) is surging on heavy…
These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street firms we have seen with about two hours until the market opens: Citigroup (C) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.…
These are this morning’s top analyst downgrades and cautious calls from Wall Street firms we have seen with about two hours until the market opens: Carrizo Oil & Gas (CRZO) Cut to Neutral at…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is on deck for earnings this week. Its earnings news may have just been derailed by a key influential analyst call. Meredith Whitney, now with Meredith Whitney Advisory…
If a very minor recovery in the global economy pushes oil back toward $75, what will a robust expansion do? Crude moved to $73.79 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The reason for the rise…
Investors who have dumped CIT (NYSE:CIT) stock since September 29 are looking smart. The shares have dropped from $1.67 on the 29th to $1.04. It appears that debtholders of paper from the lender to…
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and T-Mobile (NYSE:DT), who have managed to lose the personal data of thousands and thousands of customers who have the carrier’s SideKick product because of failures of Microsoft server software, are offering the…
Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer may want to reconsider being part of an effort to buy BusinessWeek. A report fromPaidContent says “the multimedia business media giant is working as a strategic partner in the…
The author was a member of the board of directors of TheStreet.com from 2000 to 2005. One of the major concerns of the board was what would happen if Jim Cramer left the company…
Reuters: The healthcare plan is about to take a step forward in Congress. Reuters: The debt swap at CIT (NYSE:CIT) is in trouble and could cause bankruptcy. Reuters: Summers says Obama policies saved economy.
Most markets in Asia rose. The Nikkei was up .6% to 10,055. Honda (NYSE:HMC) gained. The Hang Seng was up 1.5% to 21,603. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was up. The Shanghai Composite was higher by 1.4%…
Here we are going into yet another earnings season. We saw Monday how the market has rallied significantly from the March lows and the major indexes are even up in positive territory for the…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) hit a yearly high of $126.67 after the company announced that it had renewed its marketing and services relationship with the National Football League. The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) surged over…
News out of Macau, China is crushing some of the gambling stocks that have direct operations in Macau. It looks like the Chinese are considering curbing the number of gambling tables, the minimum age…