It is actually slow in pre-market trading today. These are today’s top volume alert stocks for day traders and active traders. More detailed volume and price analysis and data is available on links through…
The Commerce Department has just released its data on Personal Income and Spending for the month of June. Income came in at -1.3%, and Dow Jones had estimates at -1.2% as the consensus. We’d…
These are ten of the top pre-market early analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: Barrick Gold (ABX) Cut to Sector Perform at CIBC. Big 5…
The Chinese central government has made it clear that a key to the nation’s economic recovery is strong consumer spending. The $585 billion stimulus package that has been in effect since early in the…
The writing has been on the wall for years. The Postal Service is slowly going out of business. The fax was the first piece of technology that cut into the need to mail letters…
Toyota (TM) posted an $816 million loss in its last quarter, but lifted its forecasts. It will up production for its fiscal year which ends in March to 6.6 million vehicles from 6.5 million. It is…
Reuters: A plan for universal healthcare in China could cut the savings rate. Reuters: Bank regulators are opposing the Obama shake-up of the system. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) settled SEC charges over Merrill…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 10,375. Toyota (TM) reported better than expected earnings. The Hang Seng fell .1% to 20,792. HSBC (HBC) rose on good numbers. The Shanghai Composite…
The stock price of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) hit $100,000 today, up from a 52-week low of $70,000, but still well off its period high of $147,000. Berkshire’s chief Warren Buffett has made a number…
There is no end to the lengths to which Apple will go to keep overheating problems with its iPod under wraps. The Times reports that“Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a…
GM’s July sales fell 19%, more than any of the other major car companies, to 188,156. The number is down so much that without the Pontiac and Saturn brands that it plans to phase…
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) today filed an automatic shelf registration statement with the SEC. It also filed to sell 4 million shares of common stock as a result. This existing shelf…
William Clay Ford, Jr., the company’s CEO since 2001, went outside the industry and he and Ford’s board brought in Boeing executive Alan Mulally to replace him in September 2006. Mulally, in turn, bet…
Ford’s (F) July sales rose 2.3% to to 165,279. SUV sales were weak, off 36%, so cars and crossovers had to make up for that. GM’s sales moved sharply in another direction. They fell…
Bank of America (BAC) got off with a $33 million fine “to settle charges that it made false and misleading statements” about bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch employees. The case what brought by the…
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) has seen its shares halted for news pending. That news is out. The troubled financial lender to small businesses and middle market companies has announced that, with the consent…
Troubled insurance and financial giant American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) may have found a new CEO to run the company. Or dare we say… a new victim! Based upon what the company has…
by John Tamny of RealClearMarkets In a recent opinion piece on the Federal Reserve for the Wall Street Journal, authors R. Glenn Hubbard, Hal Scott and John Thornton argued that the “Fed must…
Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN) was a stock we screened early this morning in pre-market hours for its active trading at VSInvestor.com. We noted that this one was getting destroyed, but the company…
The Institute for Supply Management has shown that the manufacturing activity came in with a reduced rate of contraction for July. The manufacturing index came in at 48.9. This is still slightly in the…