Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) may still be the leader in its space in the U.S., but the company has become very ‘yesteryear’ for investors. The company recently performed much ‘less-worse’ than expectations and shares…
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) was running this morning in our top day trader alerts, but it turns out that there was much more to the call than meets they eye. RBC Capital Markets has…
These are this Tuesday’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: The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:…
Inflation is taking a ride in the backseat, again. The Labor Department said that July’s wholesale inflation measured by Producer Price Index came in at -0.9% on the nominal or headline rate, while the…
These are ten of the top analyst research upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Tuesday morning with about two hours until the market opens: Aeterna Zentaris (AEZS) Cut to Sector Perform at RBC;…
AIG has already taken in $180 billion of taxpayer money and there is absolutely no reason to believe that most of it will be returned. The insurance company is still losing money and its…
The Wall Street Journal has taken an exclusive look at academic reseach documents that show many companies have backdated options. The last scandal about the practice should have taught public company boards and executives something,…
The New York Times got ahold of an early version of the 2009 new vehicle study done by The University of Michigan Customer Satisfaction Index. The paper reports that “in the rankings by brand, G.M.’s…
The Fed made hundreds of billions of dollars in short term loans to banks. It was necessary, in the opinion of the agency, to do that to preserve the financial system as we have…
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.…
Reuters: China’s expansion is leading to charges is it stripping asset from other under-developed countries. Reuters: UBS (UBS) will reveal the names of 5,000 clients in a deal with US tax authorities. Reuters: Schwab…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 10,385. The Hang Seng rose 1% to 20,333. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.4% to 2,911. At the open in Europe, the FTSE rose .9%…
Fidelity Management & Research Company, or FMR, was among the giants which released its quarterly holdings over the most recent days. While it is always interesting to see which holdings are the top holdings,…
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) is set to report earnings tomorrow morning and it may have just caught a break now that Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) missed its earnings and has seen…
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, the company known to most Americans as VW, wants to become the world’s largest car company within a decade. VW has almost no chance of realizing that aspiration because it did not…
General Motors may be closer to getting into cars as cheap as some go-carts. A report over the weekend in the WSJ noted that GM plans to produce one of the compact cars for…
John Tamny of RealClearMarkets When asked who his favorite economist was, Ronald Reagan used to say Fredric Bastiat. Bastiat was a 19th-century economic philosopher from France, and while his numerous books are full of…
These are this Monday’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: Becton Dickinson & Company (NYSE:…
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street firms we have seen early this Monday morning: Ariad Pharma (NASDAQ: ARIA) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) Raised to…
Filed in the folder marked “facts most people would never imagine” is the news that nearly nine out of ten bills in the US are contaminated with cocaine. Data released by the American Chemical…