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…
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,…