In the not too distant future, video games may have health warning labels like the ones found on Marlboros and Jim Beam. New research performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory…
Robert Coury, the CEO of Mylan (MYL), his general counsel, and public affairs staff don’t know how to quit when they are ahead. The company objected to a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that raised…
Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) and the Export Development Canada have announced the establishment of a C$1 billion fund with the backing of the “EDC” to provide debtor-in-possession loans, or DIP Financing, and other…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to issue an Investor Alert yesterday called “Leveraged and Inverse ETFs: Specialized Products with Extra Risks for Buy-and-Hold Investors”…. This warning was…
These are this Wednesday’s top day trader and active stock alerts. We have more detailed data on volume and price analysis with links through to VSInvestor.com on each stock: BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT) was…
These are Wednesday’s top ten analyst research summary upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street brokerage firms: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) Cut to Neutral at Susquehanna. Alcoa (NYSE:AA) Cut to Neutral at Goldman…
Robert Benmosche has already come under a bit of fire for his pay package as the new head of troubled insurance giant American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG). But critics demanding immediate government repayment…
Wal-Mart (WMT) does not care if it has been burned by its past efforts to try to get affluent shoppers. The world’s largest retailer has been known for years as catering to the relatively…
The economy in China is allegedly getting better, but the stock market is getting much worse. It is now down 20% from its 2009 peak which, based on the Wall St. lexicon, is a…
Warren Buffett wrote an op ed piece for The New York Times. One part of the article was predictable. Buffett feels that rising government borrowing will eventually cause inflation. He goes through an elaborate…
Reuters: HP (HP) issued optimistic guidance. Reuters: China is investing in the private housing sector. Reuters: Buffett says the US is on a slow path to recovery. Reuters: US regulators urged Citigroup (C) to…
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was down .8% to 10,204. Sanyo rose on news Toyota (TM) would buy batteries from the company. The Hang Seng fell 1.9% to 19,924. The Shanghai Composite plunged…
In the not too distant future, video games may have health warning labels like the ones found on Marlboros and Jim Beam. New research performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory…
There is a tremendous amount of agita about the Chinese arresting four Rio Tinto (RTP) employees on charges of trade secret infringement and bribery. The action came too soon after Rio Tinto broke off…
Sony’s (SNE) PS3 and Microsoft’s (MSFT) Zune both have the same problem. They substantially under-sell the market leaders. In the case of the Zune, that is Apple’s (AAPL) iPod which has a huge lead.…
Wall St. analysts and the media have spent the weeks after the release of the Palm (PALM) Pre on the Sprint (S) network wondering how the handset is actually selling and whether it is…
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) has just released its earnings report for the quarter. The PC and IT giant posted $0.91 EPS and $27.45 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates at $0.90 EPS on …
NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday. What will be interesting to see is if the company can maintain its old history of growth despite…
The US business of Readers Digest is going into Chapter 11. The immediate cause is the company’s need to restructure $1.6 billion in debt and to move ownership of the company to its lenders.…
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) may have just clouded its outlook for today’s earnings report. We have Thomson Reuters estimates at $0.90 EPS on some $27.25 billion in revenues. But today came word that H-P…