Reuters: The promise of mobile TV is being destroyed by smartphone use of software applications. Reuters: More attacks on websites in the West are expected and North Korea is suspected. Reuters: China has arrested…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was down 1.3% to 9,291. The Hang Seng was off a fraction to 17,719. HSBC (HBC) fell. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.3% to 3,123. At the…
Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) posted a narrower-than-expected loss of -$0.26 EPS on a non-GAAP basis and -$0.32 EPS from continuing operations. Revenues were down sharply to $4.24 billion (from $7.62 billion a year ago),…
Hot Topic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOTT) is continuing to lose its momentum. The company had been a huge winner for being tied to the apparel from the Twilight teen vampire movie. But apparently vampire envy…
There has been a lot of coverage of the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle e-book reader. But what happens when you hear there has been yet another price cut on the device? Some have tried…
It’s taken a back seat to health care, but one of the next big agenda items for President Obama’s administration is cybersecurity, a priority that is becoming all the more clear following July 4…
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) has been all over the news today on reports that the company may conduct an initial public offering for its Macau assets. The company would like to raise…
Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) is one of the first stocks that kicks off earnings season every quarter. Today is its actual earnings report after the closing bell. What is interesting is that traders try…
These are some of the top stories affecting key drug and biotech stocks that are covered with more in-depth details and analysis this morning at BioHealthInvestor.com: Amgen Inc’s (Nasdaq: AMGN)’s osteoporosis drug did so…
The weekly oil inventories data came out of the U.S. Department of Energy at 10:30 AM EST this morning. Crude Oil was already down under $62.00 on global economic worries, and now WTI Crude…
These are some of the top stocks for day traders and active traders to watch based on pre-market and after-hours volume activity with links to more detailed price and volume analysis on each situation…
Most analysis of the stimulus packages put together by France and the huge $585 billion Chinese program to keep its GDP growing showthat the capital is already making its way into these economies which is…
We rarely have time to watch video interviews from around the web early in the morning, but what choice is there when someone is calling for General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) to be worth…
Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) has released its June data for rig counts. The bad news is that there are still some drops being recorded in rig counts from May, and these counts still look…
Shares of First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are rising this morning for a change. ThinkEquity raised the rating on the solar leader to a BUY rating from an already somewhat positive Accumulate rating. So…
These are the top ten pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street analysts this Wednesday morning with about two and a half hours until the market opens: Air Products…
Airline price wars are back, just when carriers cannot afford them. The price of jet fuel is up. Passenger traffic is down. Southwest (LUV) is offering fare as low as $30 one way on…
T Boone Pickens is old and tired. He made his billions of dollars in the oil business. He planned to build his legacy on alternative energy. Pickens has worked to build huge wind farms,…
Google (GOOG) says it will create its own PC operating system. The first reaction to the news is that it is a threat to Microsoft (MSFT) Windows. That is almost certainly not the case.…
The Administration has gone to great lengths to put together a package of programs to allow worthy homeowners who are having trouble meeting their mortgages to modify home loans to cut monthly payments. This allows…