These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Thursday morning: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs. Chico’s FAS (NYSE: CHS) cut to Sell at Citigroup.…
The FCC will have another of its interminable airwaves auctions soon. Telecom and tech companies will run in to buy spectrum so that they can send voice, video, data, and junk without having to…
The latest theory about high oil prices is that net exporters of oil are shipping less crude while the world needs more. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Fresh data from the U.S. Department…
According to chaos theory systems that exhibit mathematical chaos are deterministic and are therefore orderly in some sense. Interest rates share something in common with that definition. Lowering interest rates is supposed to put…
It is not 1876, and GM (GM) CEO Rick Wagoner does not have long blond hair. But, Mr. Wagoner is in mortal trouble and there may not be much he can do about it.…
Several presentations at the All Things Digital conference this week made it clear that Microsoft (MSFT) has probably lost its appetite for buying Yahoo! (YHOO). According to Reuters, "Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Jerry Yang…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) says Microsoft (MSFT) is not longer anxious for a merger. Reuters said Exxon (XOM) investors voted to keep the chairman and CEO jobs together. Reuters reports that China will…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 3% to 14,124. Nikon was up 5.1% to 3310. Mazda was up 7.3% to 513. The Hang Seng rose .2% to 24,285. China Petroleum (SNP) was…
Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp. was going to be the first real special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC or blank check company, from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS). The key word in there is…
Ambac (ABK) Still dogged by concerns about losses and inadequate capital. Falls to $2.88 from 52-week high of $92.08. US Airways (LCC) Concerns about cost of oil get worse. Drops to $4.06 from 52-week…
The 10-Year Treasury Note has crossed back above the 4.00% mark today. According to our data, the last time rates flirted with 4.00% on the 10-year treasury note was on May 14, 2008 when…
Chairman of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Jeff Immelt, has made another vote of confidence in the stock today. In transactions listed with a trade date of TODAY May 28, 2008, the filing with…
Being related, distantly, to the founder of the company which became Exxon (XOM), did not help the Rockefellers. They were at the front of a group of shareholders trying to separate the chairman and…
On Wednesday morning we’ll get to see earnings out of upscale warehouse retailer Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST). The estimates from First Call are $0.65 EPS on $16.3 Billion in revenues. Next quarter estimates…
A legal consortium of law firms has just filed suit on behalf of certain shareholders of TASER International Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR). Two Houston-based firms, The O’Quinn Law Firm and Christian Smith & Jewell, and…
The overall short interest on NASDAQ stocks was actually pretty dull from the end of April to Mid-May, or at least that is the case until you go straight into looking at solar stocks…
Short sellers TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.(NASDAQ: AMTD), E*TRADE Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC), and Charles Schwab Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHW) look like a mixed bag on the surface, but the trends in two of the three…
The Detroit News says that Ford (F) will cut another 12% of its salaried workforce. Who will keep the books and design the cars? There must be some point at which Ford cannot continue…
The worst may have been seen in many of the US apparel makers. At least that is what Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) is trying to communicate on its own operations. The company…
It seems that the producers may be getting sick and tired of not being able to pass exponentially rising costs on to customers. This morning, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) has announced that…