Short seller bet that Microsoft’s (MSFT) shares would fall adding almost six million shares to their position in January pushing total shares sold short to 108.5 million. It may not have been a good…
January short interest in Apple (AAPL) rose 1.2 million shares to 25.7 million. The short statistics were measured on January 12 just as Apple was rallying toward $97.10 on January 15. Recently the stock…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas In this week’s Monday Edition I’d like to focus on understanding the mechanics of US$ by analyzing 1) Investor fears and 2) Role of Petrodollars &…
from BioHealth Investor The upcoming week will be a big one for Hollis Eden Pharmaceuticals (HEPH), a company I’ve written about previously. The company was founded in 1992 and they’ve not advanced a single…
iRobot (IRBT-NASDAQ) has announced it was awarded a $16.58 million order for delivery of more than 100 explosive-detection robots for use by the U.S. military in Iraq and the company expects to begin delivery…
Now that the World Economic Forum is basically over in Davos, Switzerland, it seemed interesting after reviewing all of the internal and external coverage that the good economic times prevailed over the ongoing critical…
If you thought that online education gets no respect, think again. Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR-NASDAQ) is being acquired in a management-led buyout along with a private equity consortium for $60.50 per share in cash. …
By Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA January 26, 2007 It seems that 2007 should be a brighter year for Johnson & Johnson (NYSE JNJ). In 2006 the company faced major drug expirations which dampened revenue…
Biotechnology FERMAVIR PHARMACEUTL +19.05% POLYMEDIX INC +14.29% KOSAN BIOSCIENCES +11.11% BIONOVO INC +10.04% NEURO-HITECH INC +9.01% Diagnostic Substances ABAXIS INC +21.00% INFINITY PHARMACEUTI +5.15% GENE LOGIC INC +4.58% PONIARD PHARMA +4.46% IDEXX LABS +3.93%…
The following list represents the top ten medical stocks ranked according to Earnings Per Share and Relative Strength by Investor’s Business Daily (1/27/06) scores out of 100 (last week’s rank, change in score): 1(1)…
by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com After the murder of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko government agencies began to worry about possible future terrorist attacks using the radioactive element polonium-210. Both the National Institute of…
Barron’s writes that shares in ethanol companies moved up before the Bush speech asking for less reliance on foreign oil. But, corn supply is not unlimited and the price of the commodity is rising…
The Associated Press has pointed out that the use of cell phones is improving productivity throughout the developing countries of the world. In Vietnam, there are now 33 phones per 100 people and two-thirds…
The hits keep on coming for Qualcomm (QCOM), but not the kind of that will put it on any best seller list. A federal jury has found that rival Broadcom’s (BRCM) video products do…
Late news from Davos is that Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates believes that the internet will revolutionize TV. His time horizon is five years. He points to products like Google’s (GOOG) YouTube as content…
Late word from the World Economic Forum is that the founder of YouTube has announced that the video sharing site, bought by Google (GOOG), will start to pay some of its contributors for content.…
This is a summary of some of the key economic and earnings numbers coming out in the week ahead. Please understand some dates and estimates may have changed, and as always the data cannot…
Stock Tickers: CAT, GS, BBI, RAD, STZ, NTLI, DEO, RIO, TM, BNS, GPS, BRCM, MRVL, TYC, SLB, COF, CRDN This is a short snapshot review of Cramer calls condensed from this week, and a…
From Ticker Sense After the beating bonds have taken this week, some advisors have tried to reassure investors that the current declines are nothing more than the normal ‘first quarter’ weakness that fixed income…
In the calculus of oil prices, Wall St. often factors in supply interruptions that could come from political instability and terrorism. But, what if selective large reserves simply start to run out, without much…