These are the top big analyst calls from Wall Street we have seen very early this Friday morning with over two and a half hours until the market opens: Baidu (BIDU) Started as Underweight…
A new study from MIT says that if the US and China cannot control and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning plants, efforts at cutting back on global warming may be a failure. The…
Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) actually have something to worry about, if Steve Ballmer is not bluffing. The Microsoft (MSFT) CEO says that he company is prepared to spend 5% to 10% of its…
Toyota (TM) has booked 180,000 domestic orders for its Prius hybrid model in the first month that it has been on the market. There is no reason to think that the car will not…
The big money in China is starting to worry that by the time it starts to shop for undervalued assets outside its borders, the recovery may be underway and the bargains may be gone.…
The Wall Street Journal, in a bit of investigative reporting, found that the CEOs of companies that have received federal bailout funds are still having fun using their firms’ private jets. Or, in some…
Reuters: Investors are putting money into emerging markets except Eastern Europe. Reuters: Stanford will go to court for a $8 billion fraud allegation. Reuters: RIM’s (RIMM) outlook disappointed. Reuters: CEOs at bailed out companies used…
Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .9% to 9,786. The Hang Seng was up 1.3% to 17,878. Sinopec (SNP) and China Petroleum (PTR) rose on a the anticipation oil with rise with…
Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is growing. The gunsmith has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Universal Safety Response Inc., a privately held full-service security systems solutions provider, founded in 1994. …
Teekay Tankers Ltd. (NYSE: TNK) now plans to sell 7,000,000 shares of common stock in a public secondary offering. This is a bit of an unusual offering as the company expects to use the…
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) report its highly awaited earnings today. The BlackBerry maker posted $0.98 EPS and $3.42 billion in revenues. The Thomson Reuters estimate was $0.94 EPS on $3.42 billion in revenues and…
If you follow charts, money-flows, and ways to play macro-trends, you probably know who Dennis Gartman is. We know that you know who Warren Buffett is, and Gartman’s call as a short selling candidate…
Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. (NYSE: POT), Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) and Intrepid Potash,Inc. (NYSE: IPI) are all recovering at least some from yesterday’s major drops. While Agrium Inc. (NYSE:…
ProShares has just launched four new exchange-traded funds. While these are not “all” BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), BRIC investors will now get a couple of more tools to short sell those baskets…
If you have ever stayed at the Wynn resort or the even newer Encore in Las Vegas, you will know that calling either a high-end resort and casino destination may represent an understatement of…
STAAR Surgical Company (NASDAQ: STAA) has been on a roaring run of late. In mid-May this stock was under $1.00. After news of the company getting a nod for its Epiphany cataract lens insertion…
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. This will be a key report that can impact rivals such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK),…
Sallie Mae, or SLM Corp., (NYSE: SLM) is soaring this morning. In fact, it looks like the stock was briefly trading above $9.00 for the first time since it became a political target. This…
There have been hopes, over and over, that the jobs data would get better. Or at least less-bad as we have been discussing for about 3 or 4 months when the data started looking…
Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) looks like it is going to get a much stronger foothold in China. A report from Reuters has the private equity giant in talks with the local city government…