These are ten of the top analyst calls we are seeing this Monday morning: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) Cut to Neutral from Buy at Goldman Sachs. Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) Cut to Neutral…
Sprint (S) may be building the nation’s biggest broadband wireless network, but its core business is still in trouble. Is the company becoming so weak that its partner ship with Intel (INTC), Comcast (CMCSA),…
The Apple (AAPL) iPhone will soon be available in Asia. That will not include the pearl of all handset markets, China. but it does pick up potential sales elsewhere. According to Reuters, SingTel, Singapore’s…
Research In Motion (RIMM) has come out with a new version of its Blackberry called Bold. It incorporates many of the multimedia functions of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. To trump the Steve Jobs product,…
Inflation is still running like a brush fire inside China. Prices moved up 8.5% in April compared with the same month a year ago. The its a pittance compared to the rise in food…
International Lease Finance Corp (ILFC), the big aircraft lending business owned by AIG (AIG) is being pulled down by the financial woes of its parent. It makes money, which AIG does not. Its business…
Not all financial shares are created equal, at least no according to short bets made on NYSE companies for the period ending. April 30 compared to numbers on April 15. Short interest in Washington…
According to Reuters, Cablevision (CVC) is close to buy newspaper Newsday Reuters writes that RIM (RIM) is releasing its Blackberry Bold, aimed at keeping its lead in the business market. Reuters writes that April…
Markets in Asia were mixed with Hong Kong closed for a holiday. The Nikkei rose .6% to 13,743. KDDI rose 2.3% to 665000. Docomo (DCM) fell 1.8% to 152000. The Shanghai Composite moved up…
Very few people drive down the miles-long highways and dirt roads in the middle of the country to see combines cut grain and fertilizer trucks spread chemicals. The picture is not monochromatic, at least…
There is a new feeling suffusing the financial markets that the worst of the credit crisis is over. The Fed has done most of its work. US citizens are about to get their tax…
Neither Airbus nor Boeing (BA) seem to be able to get their newest airplanes to customers on time. The Airbus super-jumbo A380 has frustrated the company’s customers for the better part of two years.…
Oil companies are not typically the stuff of break-up actions. What would be the purpose of knocking Exxon Mobil (XOM) or Conoco (COP) into two pieces? Some of the answer to that comes from…
This week is an extremely important week for solar stocks and alternative energy stocks. JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO), LDK Solar Co.Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), and Yingli Green…
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) is set to report earnings on Monday morning, with an earnings conference call to follow at 8:00 AM EST. First Call has estimates at $0.02 EPS on $9.41 Billion…
The US has plenty of problems with Venezuela’s mentally troubled dictator Hugo Chavez. The most recent confrontation has been over Chavez financing guerrillas in neighboring Columbia. While the two nations throw bricks at one…
Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (NWS) pulled his $580 million bid for large Long Island paper "Newsday" currently owned by The Tribune Company. Cablevision (CVC), which has a large portion of its subscriber base…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is set to report earnings this coming Tuesday morning before the open. The company already gave an approximate revenues number of $94 Billion. As you will see below, Wall…
Monday may be quite an interesting day for satellite radio investors. Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR) will both report earnings. While everyone will be breaking down the…
FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) came out after the close. Apparently $126 oil is a killer, like no one knew that. When it gave its last earnings warning it was based on fuel not rising…