No one should be surprised that food companies are passing along tremendous increases in the prices of commodities. Consumers will be paying more for everything from hot dogs to corn flakes. Even the prices…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is going to be the key earnings for tech stock investors and traders today. Last week we pointed out that the stock was using its 200-day moving average as support,…
The cellular handset business may not be as bad off as some analysts suppose. Result from Korean electronics company LG, which operates at the high end of the market, were fairly strong. For the…
These are among the top analyst Downgrades or negative analyst calls affecting shares this Monday morning in pre-market trading: Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) Downgraded to Underperform at Jefferies. Fidelity National (NYSE: FIS) Cut to…
Just when the economy needs banks to be opening their doors for more lending, they are locking the safe down tight. According to The Wall Street Journal, "The heavy losses banks have taken on…
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) just took away any near-term embedded call option in its stock. The company has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the annual meeting,…
These are only some of the early bird analyst calls that we have seen in early Monday pre-market trading, but these are some of the more active stock names: American International Group (NYSE: AIG)…
The idea of breaking Citigroup (C) into pieces is hardly new. From the day Sandy Weill threw the place together, many analysts could see no benefit to an umbrella company holding everything from a…
The PC industry’s race to create smaller and smaller computers to stave off competition from smart phones has begun to backfire. Intel (INTC) has started making tiny, energy-efficient chips to power the new machines…
Probably the worst thing that ever happened to Starbucks (SBUX) was when McDonald’s (MCD) went into the premium coffee business. Consumer Reports even rated the fast food chain’s java ahead of the sludge that…
Swiss drug company Roche is trying to steal the part of biotech company Genentech (DNA) that it does not already own. Roche has offered to buy the 45% of DNA that belongs to public…
According to Reuters, Roche has offered to buy-out Genentech (DNA) for $42.7 billion. Retuers reports that one of Yahoo!’s (YHOO) activist investors has called for a compromise which would put some of Carl Icahn’s…
Apple may be the most extraordinary technology company of the last two decades. It has introduced three products: the Mac, which took years to become a financial success; the IPod, arguably the most fantastic…
Stocks in a number of airlines rose over 40% last week with some, including AMR (AMR) moving up over 50%. The price of oil sold off sharply enough to warrant some of the improvement…
Executives at Time Warner (TWX) can enjoy their time this summer at their mansions and on their yachts. The company’s Warner studio’s latest film, "Dark Knight", part of the Batman series, has taken in…
The old saw is that the Federal Reserve cannot battle inflation and recession at the same time. If true, it would appear that more agency governors are opting for letting an economic downturn run…
If Citigroup (C) chairman Win Bischoff is right, then his bank and the US economy are going to be cornered by a deepening recession for the next two years. According to Reuters, the Citi…
Carl Icahn never really made much of a case for what he would do if he could not sell all or part of Yahoo! (YHOO) to Microsoft (MSFT). He wanted Yahoo! shareholder to support…
All the news from Apple (AAPL) is good. Recent Gartner and IDC data show the Mac outselling PC products from Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ). The iPhone sold one million units in its first…
Its Friday, and despite a fairly stable market today there were of course many 52-week lows. Some look like a mid-city explosion from news, and some are just the normal selling. As a reminder,…