Reuters: Japanes Topix index is expect to rise to 1,000. Reuters: The US may need a second stimulus package. Reuters: Hospitals have agreed to contribute $155 billion over ten years to help with the…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was off .3% to 9,648. Toyota (TM) declined. The Hang Seng was down .1% to 17,959. China Unicom (CHU) rose on rumors that it would sell the…
It is hard to consider a report with only 227 polled as being a total bogey for the whims and will of the nation. But Chief Executive magazine’s CEO Index that may show at…
Advanced Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE/AMEX: AXC) is a special purpose acquisition company, or blank check company, that is about to no longer be. The company has announced that its stockholders are voting to approve…
It is still too soon to be counting the last revisions for major technology companies reporting calendar Q2-2009 earnings season. But the trend set at the end of last week and being continued today…
What started as a qu ery to the FCC last month by Sen. John Kerry, (D-Mass.), and a handful of other senators asking whether exclusive deals between carriers and cell phone makers stifle competition…
Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP) keeps getting higher and higher bids in the bidding war that has erupted between EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) and NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP). Interestingly enough, this has an implication…
Solar stocks are again trading no differently than a leveraged bet on oil prices. This is something we have noted on many occasions and with oil down by another -$2.59 at $64.14 per barrel…
This morning came the report from the Institute of Supply Management for non-manufacturing in the month of June. The good news is that this was slightly better than expectations. The bad news is that…
NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE) is trading up today on good news. The problem is that the news around the company is that it may be holding a fire sale. When debt is owed…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is said to have either the best in-house and proprietary trading models or at least the best of the large bulge bracket firms. This weekend came a report…
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) is seeing shares get clipped a bit this morning. Some may be on weak energy prices taking the hot air out of alternative energy and some…
John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Perhaps in an effort to shore up his budgetary bona fides during a period of reckless spending, President Obama recently announced his goal to put the federal government on a…
These are the top analyst upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street this Monday morning with about two hours until the market opens: Franklin Resources (BEN) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. KLA-Tencor (KLAC),…
These are this Monday’s top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls from Wall Street with more than two hours until the market opens: Citrix Systems (CTXS) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. Discovery Labs…
GM’s most valuable assets have finally been sold to a company controlled by the federal government. A judge approved the transaction early today. The “new GM” should be out of bankruptcy court and fully…
Best Buy (BBY) has decided that people want “green” products, or it has decided that it looks good to sell them. It may take awhile to find out if the move is simply one…
China is in the midst of something just short of a global buying spree of crude reserves, metal and mining companies, tech concerns, and manufacturing operations. It would be easy to say that the…
Alnylam (Nasdaq: ALNY) leads a short list of some of the fastest-growing biotech stocks where analyst estimate revisions continue to rise. BioHealth Investor began by analyzing 171 stocks in the biotech sector based on…
British Airways has announced it will cut its capital spending this year by another 20% to 580 million pounds. It is in the process of negotiating with its unions to significantly reduce jobs. Sharp…