Ruth’s Hospitality Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: RUTH) has filed a shelf registration to raise capital. The owner of the Ruth’s Chris Steak House chain has filed a mixed securities shelf to raise up to $200…
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has been one of 2009’s top performers due to the anticipation of the Palm Pre smartphone this month. The company’s earnings are out and it has shares marginally higher. The…
ProShares already has double leverage ETFs for investors and traders alike. It now has launched two new Triple-Leverage ETFs. The UltraPro S&P500 (NYSE: UPRO) is meant to offer 300% of the daily return for…
Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) shares are at session highs and well of the lows of the day in the early afternoon Thursday after Japan okayed one of the company’s human growth hormones, the first…
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has raised more cash through its XM Satellite Radio Inc. unit than it originally projected. We were looking for a raise of some $350 million, but the newly…
We have another rough couple of quarters ahead of us in PC and computer sales. There are some things to take heed here which will come front and center for the sales and the…
Short Selling looked higher in some of the key solar and alternative energy stocks. Of the top 7 solar stock plays we track by market cap, six of the seven saw increased short selling…
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) was hurt as the recession took hold and customers had to go searching for cheaper and cheaper products. Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) was the winner there. Now Target is aiming…
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) is finally getting free from President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Tobin. This was one our top 10 CEO’s to go for 2009 as his tenure has been bad. …
The Labor Department has released its latest data on weekly jobless claims. The figure came in at 627,000, a gain of 15,000. We had a Dow Jones consensus looking for 605,000 and Bloomberg had…
Goldman Sachs has made several key upgrades and downgrades this morning in the utility sector and in the oil patch. While the utility sector was raised to attractive, some of the other calls seem…
By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets The recent spike in U.S. Treasury yields has generated renewed commentary about the specter of inflation. It’s even being asked if we’re repeating the inflationary mistakes of the late…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is going to be down early this morning after Canaccord Adams decided to downgrade the stock. The brokerage firm decided to cut the rating to Hold from Buy, and…
These are this Thursday’s top ten independent analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street brokerage firms with more than two hours until the market opens: Corning (GLW) Started as Outperform at…
Toyota (TM) says that the global automotive industry is facing two more lean years. It expects to lose more money this fiscal year than it did last and to run most of its factories…
China wants PC companies to install screening software so that certain material from the web is censored. The central government of the most populous nation does not think that is enough. About a week…
Is America’s consumption of gasoline critical to the price of crude? The issue will be tested this 4th of July. If US drivers plan to stay off the roads with gas prices pushing $2.70,…
McDonald’s (MCD) is being accused of fudging SEC documents by failing to report all of the perks of one of its executives. This has led the press and other observers to ask whether the…
Yahoo! (YHOO) wants to change its image as the “also-ran” search engine with incompetent management. According to All Things Digital, Yahoo! “is working on a massive plan to overhaul its brand in order to…
A public relations executive recently evaluated the number of Fortune 100 CEOs who had presences on social network sites including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and online information site Wikipedia. Almost none of the chief executives were…