Several media are reporting that Yahoo ! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are as little as a day away from a partnership that would marry their search engine businesses, but the details on how this…
Trimble Navigation Limited (NASDAQ: TRMB) is a very different company than Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: TRMB). Trimble offers advanced positioning product solutions to commercial and government users. Garmin is the GPS provider that is one…
We have two very pertinent earnings this week for casino and resort investors from rivals Wynn Resorts, Limited (NASDAQ: WYNN) and Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS). Wynn will release results for the June…
Offshore wind projects that generate no emissions and can generate energy for millions of homes and businesses along the East Coast. They make good old-fashioned horse sense. They have the potential to open up…
We have already seen earnings from Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) and BP Plc (NYSE: BP), and these figures are acting to keep a lid on oil stocks. There is, of course, the notion…
A new Gallup poll shows that only 30% of those asked said the Fed was doing an “excellent or good” job. The figure was 53% when Alan Greenspan was chief in 2003. Ben Bernanke,…
We have already covered the nuclear winter blow-up over at USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) after the DOE declines to issue a guarantee for it long-pending loan application. What we wanted to see is what…
The Conference Board’s reading on consumer confidence 46.6 for July, down from an unrevised figure of 49.3 in June. Bloomberg had the consensus reading pegged at 50.0, and it also noted that the lowest…
It seems that all the talk about getting off of coal-power and reducing dependence on foreign energy is still just rhetoric. USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) announced this morning that the long-standing loan process it…
The Case-Shiller housing price data is a lower-impact housing number because of the notion that the data is older than some other reports already on the market. This morning’s data for May 2009 did…
The following are some of the top stocks to watch for active trading today based on pre-market and after-hours volume activity. There are links through to more detailed coverage and volume analysis at VSInvestor.com:…
Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) did manage to beat earnings, at least if you consider a two-penny beat versus a wide loss after a warning as a beat. The refiner’s loss came to -$0.48…
It turns out the Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has a solid value after all. Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) has decided to acquire Virgin Mobile USA. The total equity value of the merger…
These are the top Wall Street research calls with analyst upgrades and downgrades early this Tuesday morning: Aetna (AET) Raised to Sell from Conviction Sell List at Goldman Sachs; no real upgrade. Air Products…
Viacom (VIA) had a bad quarter, which was to be expected. Media companies are suffering from drops in advertising revenue and the number of consumers who subscribe to their content services and go to…
The Washington Post has talked to some economists who have confirmed what many analysts already believed. Banks are often better off allowing homes to go into foreclosure than they are modifying loans. The Administration…
It is impossible to get an accurate view of any trading market when the regulators who monitor it cannot keep track of how the market operates. According to a reports in The Wall Street…
Analysts have hoped that the rate at which Americans become unemployed will slow in the second half of 2009. There has been some evidence that the period in which the economy would lose 600,000 or…
The idea of Fed chairman Bernanke at a town hall meeting being covered by PBS made some Washington observers shudder. Others just assumed that Bernanke wanted to take a victory lap around the country…
Reuters: The recession has badly hurt investments in green technologies. Reuters: Obama called for deeper China ties with the US. Reuters: BP’s (BP) profits fell sharply. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) will cut 10%…