Wynn Resorts, Ltd. (NASDAQ:WYNN) reports earnings after the close. This is by far one of the more volatile casino and resort names after earnings or news. First Call has estimates at $0.53 EPS and…
Local.com Corp. (NASDAQ:LOCM) will post earnings after today’s close. The company has very thin earnings coverage, but consensus estimates from First Call were -$0.35 EPS and $5.07 million on last look. As with all…
Charter Communications (CHTR) is trading off as much as 7% today. That brings it down to $2.75. The stock was as high as $4.93 three weeks ago. The company suffers from having too much…
Clearwire (CLWR) will announce earnings at the end of the day. The shares are off over 3% down to $27.92. The stock staged a furious rally two weeks ago when it annonced that it…
Blue Nile, Inc. (NASDAQ:NILE) is set to report earnings after the close today, and this one could see severe price volatility after the report. It isn’t every day that an online jewelry store trades…
If Aqua America (NYSE:WTR) isn’t the ultimate water play in the U.S. and isn’t the ultimate sort of ‘defensive stock for a crummy market," then it is hard to imagine what is. The problem…
One of the reasons that former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda was pushed out is that the investors who took on the debt from the Cerberus buy-out insist that he be replaced. Cerberus had to…
Fuel-Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:FTEK) is finding itself in a bit of a conundrum this morning. The pollution control company for a greener world, or a less-brown world, is feeling some pain this morning. The company’s…
According to the FT, Intel (INTC) plans to push hard to move into the market currently held by the Blackberry and Apple (AAPL) iPhone. Its championing for the distribution of WiFi and WiMax is…
VMware, the soon-to-be partial IPO and partial spin-off out of EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC), has announced the general availability of VMware Fusion. This will now allow Mac users to run Mac OS X, Windows, and…
(ABS) ACCO Brands $0.21 EPS vs $0.14 est.(ACA) ACA Capital noted as one that could endure or implode by Barron’s.(BSC) Bear Stearns’ Co-President Warren Spector has resigned.(DPHIQ) Delphi reached tentative labor pact with key…
AMTD raised to Buy at UBS.ANN raised to Hold at Citigroup.AUTH started as Overweight at Lehman; started as Outperform at Bear Stearns.CVH raised to Neutral at B of A.CFR raised to Outperform at RBC.CKFR…
A falling market often demonstrates how the rich get richer and the poor… get nothing. Much of the last month, AMD’s (AMD) shares have out-performed Intel’s (INTC). Just over a week ago, AMD’s stock…
HP (HPQ) is a curious stock by many measures. Over the last year, it has whipped shares in competitors including IBM (IBM) and Dell (DELL). But, what may be more telling is its performance…
Markets in Europe were off modestly at 5.50 AM New York time. The FTSE fell .2% to 6,211. Barclays (BCS) was up 2.4% to 594.5. BHP Billiton (BHP) was off 1.4 to 1355. GSK…
Management at Skype is under pressure from its parent Ebay (EBAY) to deliver some revenue. The company’s last 10-Q shows "communications revenue", Skype, with revenue of $89 million. Skype had 220 million registers users…
Tom LaSorda, Chrysler’s CEO, was kicked out of the corner office today. Maladroit manager Robert Nardelli, who did his best to sink Home Deport (HD) while CEO there, gets the top job at the…
According to Reuters, Bear Stearns (BSC) pushed out one of its presidents after problems that closed two of its hedge funds. Reuters writes that Robert Nardelli, former CEO of Home Depot (HD), will become…
Markets in Asia were down with the exception of Shanghai. The Nikkei fell .4% to 16,914. Canon (CAJ) was off 2.3% to 6370. Sony (SNE) was down 3.8% to 5820. Toyota (TM) was up…
In the last quarter, revenue at CNET (CNET) hit $97.2 million. That was only 5% better than the same quarter a year ago. Given that CNET is perhaps the premier provider of tech information…