After the Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) earnings report, we listened to the conference call and the question and answer session from analysts to get a better handle on the quarter and what is…
Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ:CPST) has posted its quarterly results, and traders on Wall Street are somehwat mixed on the data. If traders focus merely on the results in the quarter that went to the…
NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants blood from the banks that marketed auction-rate securities but have not made settlements with him. In his mind, Wachovia (WB), Morgan Stanley (MS), and JP Morgan (JPM) stand…
Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE) Faces bad earnings and falling metals prices. Drops to $1.69 from 52-week high of $5.18. Anglogold Ashanti (AU) Metals stocks down. Slips to $25.68 against 52-week high of $51.35. Basin…
It is a Category 5 irony that Toyota (TM) may be faced with exporting cars it makes in the US to other countries. It initially conquered the small car market in the America by…
Whenever analysts say "content is king," people often visualize Mel Brooks in "History of the World Part 1" shouting "it’s good to be the king." A more accurate picture is Shakespeare’s tragic "King Lear"…
Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) is set to report earnings after the close today. Once again we caution that with many analysts new in covering this stock and with the size of the company…
Several stocks made big moves today and substantial moves in volume. Included in equity and options action were Sirius (SIRI) and Microsoft (MSFT)
Motorola (MOT) kept its lead in US market share by holding 25.8% of the country’s cellular phone business. That was hardly the big story. Research-In-Motion (RIMM), maker of the Blackberry, was the significant winner…
The soft economy is actually driving some retail winners, and it isn’t really the old analogy of just the wealthy doing well. The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TJX) is putting in new all-time highs…
Basin Water (BWTR) shares are off over 50% to $1.78 on heavy volume. Basin Water said that the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors is conducting a review of the Company’s accounting for…
Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX) led off its second quarter financial report with higher sales number. Unfortunately, the company also had to report earnings, or the lack of earnings. For the quarter, Pacific reported a net…
There has been a great deal of talk about how the New York State Attorney General and the SEC has done companies and individual investors a service by getting Merrill Lynch (MER), Citigroup (C)…
An announcement came early this morning that JDA Software Group Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) was acquiring i2 Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ITWO). The companies have signed a definitive merger pact for approximately $346 million in cash.…
The federal government decided to give small businesses a leg up. It is simply a token gesture and its likely to protect only a very small number of companies from the economic downturn. A…
OPEC has taken full advantage of the free market system. Members are on a path to earning nearly $1.3 trillion this year as oil prices stay relatively high into the second half of the…
These are not all of the analyst upgrades or positive calls, but these are some of the calls we are seeing with a possible impact on shares early Monday morning: Beacon Roofing (BECN) Raised…
These are not all of the analyst downgrades or negative calls, but these are some of the calls we are seeing with a possible impact on shares early Monday morning: American Electric Power (AEP)…
The Fed has been testing investment banks to see what will become of their balance sheets and liquidity if the credit markets signal another hurricane watch. According to the FT, "Bankers with knowledge of…
Verizon (VZ) managed to dodge a strike by about 65,000 of its workers. It would have crippled the company’s landline and broadband businesses and might have caused investors to dump the stock in favor…