The travel sector may still be complaining about softness and a spotty recovery, but things are getting better financially at Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE). It turns out that Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services gave…
The September Minutes from the FOMC are out and the tone is getting far less cautious and far less negative, despite all the caveats. It also shows that there is some disagreement among members…
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) was supposed to crush Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) in the premium coffee business when the world’s largest restaurant chain introduced a line of premium java more than a year ago. It turns out that McDonald’s impressive…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is literally within 20 points of the psychological DJIA 10,000 mark. We have not seen Dow-10K since October, 2008, but that month we saw 11,000 and saw under 8,000…
China has been critical to the attempts by the US government to pull the economy out of its downward spiral. The People’s Republic has accommodated America by continuing to fund the deficit with its…
Now that Gold has busted $1,000.00 and headed up almost every day since, the next target commodity is oil and the question is if black gold can mirror the performance of yellow gold. One…
It just got a little harder to be in the health and beauty retail business either in stores or online. Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) has started to sell products from a e-commerce section that covers personal…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 12.02 PM EST: Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) will have a national roll-out of its “no contract” cellular service which could put sales pressure on Sprint (NYSE:S) (Reuters) Updated 9.23 AM EST: …
SPACupdate.com has provided 24/7 Wall Street with some exclusive coverage for the world of special purpose acquisition companies or SPACs. This monitors live deals involving blank check companies, associated stock and warrant transactions and…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have much more detailed analysis on most with links through to each stock over at VSInvestor.com: Active Power, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACPW)…
These are this Wednesday’s early upgrades and positive research calls which we have seen out of Wall Street firms this morning: AMR Corp. (AMR) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Answers Corp. (ANSW) Raised to…
These are this Wednesday’s top early-bird analyst downgrades and cautious research calls out of Wall Street: Agco Corp. (AGCO) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. Apartment Investment & Management Co. (AIV) Cut to Underperform at…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has just posted very impressive earnings. The cleanest bank in America reported earnings of $0.82 EPS and revenues were $26.62 billion versus $0.52 EPS and almost $25…
AIG (NYSE:AIG) is a meritocracy. One of the firm’s best kitchen workers got a $7,70o retention bonus as part of the firm’s plan to keep key employees. According to the FT, the payment was made in…
The rate at which China’s exports are dropping has slowed and that means its economy is growing well. Exports and manufacturing account for too large a portion of GDP for that not to be true. Exports…
The immediate reaction to Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) results, which were better than expected, is that they signalled an improvement in the PC industry. Intel provides about 70% of PC chips. The world’s largest chip company…
24/7 Wall St. interviewed Ed “>Yardeni to talk about trends in the economy and the signs he looks for to help determine what he thinks is likely to happen in the global economy over the…
Reuters: Aggressive trading in gold in China may be pushing the price of the metal up. Reuters: Blackstone’s (NYSE:BX) CEO says the worst of the crisis is over. Reuters: The House has begun to…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei dropped .3% to 10,051. The Hang Seng moved up 1.7% to 21,839. PetroChina (NYSE:PTR) and Sinopec (NYSE:SNP) moved up on oil prices. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.2%…
Pier 1 Imports Inc. (NYSE: PIR) rallied over 11% to a yearly high of $5.01 after Dow Jones reported that the company had entered into an agreement to sell its St. Charles Ill. distribution…