Updates throughout the day. Update 2.40 PM EST: Biotech Cell Therapeutics (CTIC) is getting crushed, down 13% to $.95 on over 46 million shares. Rumors of insider selling, troubles with OPAXIO cancer, and possible dilution…
These are this Tuesday morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alert stocks for Monday. We have more details on volume and price analysis on each stock covered at VSInvestor.com: Avocet Corporation (NASDAQ:…
These are this Tuesday morning’s top pre-market analyst upgrades, initiations, or relatively positive research calls from Wall Street: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Neutral from Sell at UBS. America Movil (NYSE: AMX) Raised to…
These are Tuesday’s top pre-market analyst downgrades or cautious research calls seen out of Wall Street: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) Resumed as Neutral at UBS, so technically not a downgrade. Arris (NASDAQ: ARRS)…
T. Boone Pickens gave a CNBC interview this morning with new energy predictions and trends to watch that he has not discussed before. Pickens is still maintaining that natural gas is the key for…
Chrysler is in deep trouble. It is deep enough that analysts and the media have questioned whether it has enough cash to make it through a turnaround, especially in a harsh auto sales enviroment…
Retail sales dropped 3% or more during the 2008 holiday period. Same-store sales at a number of large chains were down much more than that. The trend was so bad that thousand of store…
SEC regulations for public companies say that compensation committees for the boards at public companies recommend pay for senior managers and those recommendations are then given to the entire board of directors for approval.…
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 7 will be better than Microsoft Vista. The world’s largest software company has learned from the mistakes it made with Vista which users found too complicated. But, Microsoft assumes that customers always…
Reuters: The pay czar plans to rework employee pay at large banks. Reuters: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) may enter the tech M&A frenzy. Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) says some Hotmail passwords were exposed. Reuters: The US called…
Markets in Asia were up slightly with Shanghai closed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 9.692. The Hang Seng was up .7% to 29,564. At the open in Europe, the FTSE rose .6% to 5,054.…
Lazard Freres delivered Carl Icahn a break-up analysis of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) in late January 2005. Icahn had bought five million shares in the media company and he wanted the board to sell the company’s…
Nutrisystem, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRI) has just announced that has aligned with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) to allow customers to purchase a Nutrisystem 14-Day Starter Program for the first time in the retail channel. …
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) was one stock where we noted that the bar for earnings expectations was very low. The fertilizer and potash player came even lower. It posted $0.23 EPS rather than $2.65…
Banco Bradesco Sa (NYSE: BBD) hit a early high of $20.79 today, carried by the hype surrounding South American banks over the past few weeks. The company is also undoubtably benefiting from the “Olympics…
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has reviewed the ramifications of reports about General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) plans for NBC Universal. The ratings agency has said that a partial sale or IPO of NBC…
We have been looking into the report from Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) late this morning that the company is in advanced discussions to acquire substantially all of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets…
Maybe it is time after a 50%+ gain in the major equity indexes, or maybe it is just everyone getting into the October bearish mode. We are hearing more and more calls for a…
The Knot, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNOT) may just have become an indirect beneficiary of the old print media world dying one publication at a time. The Wall Street Journal and CNBC have reported that Conde…
The service sector is now back to expanding, even officially, according to the ISM non-Manufacturing data just released. The Institute for Supply Management’s Non-Manufacturing Business Survey came in at 50.9% for September 2009, which…