Cramer came out on CNBC’s STOP TRADING segment discussing the ethanol and alternative energy names that have been running up yesterday and today ahead of Bush’s State of the Union tonight. Cramer said he’d…
Last week there was a bit of a strange filing. We have all known, or at least it has been known, that there is an oil ETF called U.S. Oil Fund ETF and that…
By Chad Brand of The Peridot Capitalist Ever since I suggested a long Google (GOOG), short Yahoo! (YHOO) paired trade here back in July of 2006, it’s been very interesting to compare the earnings…
From Ticker Sense As of yesterday (1/22), 58 of the 500 S&P 500 companies had reported earnings since Alcoa (AA) kicked off the season two weeks ago. While we realize it’s still a small…
From Ticker Sense Using our overbought/oversold report on global ETFs, we find that Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore are currently well above the top of their normal trading ranges, while Canada, India and South…
From Ticker Sense Goldman upgraded four homebuilder stocks this morning and downgraded three. Looking at the BARR ratings which rank analysts’ performance based on their recommendations over the past year, Goldman has done pretty…
From BioHealth Investor Shares of Novavax, Inc. (NVAX) shot up almost 10% in after hours trading on Monday as the company announced positive results of its avian flu virus vaccine in animal studies. The…
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology HALOZYME THERAPEUTIC +9.87% XTL BIOPHARMACEUTICA +9.02% HEMOBIOTECH INC +8.50% NOVACEA, INC. +7.46% LEV PHARMACEUTICALS +6.51% Diagnostic Substances RG GLBL LIFESTYLS +14.61% AVALON PHARMACEUTIC +12.34% ICAGEN, INC. +6.15% PRESSURE BIOSCIENC +4.68%…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat With our decision to move to several different Watch Lists by market cap (more on this later) we’re going to have our work cut out for…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Xerox Reports Fourth-Quarter 2006 Earnings: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Xerox Corporation (XRX) announced today fourth-quarter 2006 earnings per share of 22 cents, including a restructuring…
Cramer on his video from TheStreet.com this morning titled “Forget the Fundamentals” actually noted that tech could rally a few days on the back of Texas Instruments (TXN) finally getting their bad news out…
We all knew that AeroVironment (AVAV-NASDAQ) was going to be a good IPO. Its first print was $25.00 out of the chute at 11:45 AM EST, and that may be "too good." They make…
Yahoo! (YHOO) will probably whip around ahead of earnings scheduled today after the close. Street estimates are $0.13 EPS & $1.2 Billion in revenues, and the company gave revenue guidance of $1.15 to $1.27…
New healthcare ETF’s are hitting the market. XShares Advisors LLC, creator of the HealthShares(TM) family of ETF’s, has launched several new healthcare related ETF’s. Youcan’t really call an ETF launch an IPO, although these…
Goldman Sachs maintained its Buy/Attractive rating on Research-in-Motion (RIMM); stock 1% (mixed analyst calls elsewhere in the stock). The firm cites carriers making 5 times to 6 times the money over other PDA phone…
(AAPL) Apple’s Steve Jobs has been questioned by the SEC regarding stock options; stock down 1%.(ADTN) Adtran $0.26 EPS vs $0.23e.(ALU) Alcatel-Lucent trading down 10% on earnings warning; same conglomerates, same old story.(AV) Avaya…
CME raised to Neutral at Prudential.DRI raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.HOV & LEN cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.HRS cut to Equal Weight at Lehman.IFIN cut to Underweight at Prudential.INTU raised to Overweight…
The market is anxiously awaiting earnings from the old-line internet companies to see if their place in the internet world is slipping further or whether their businesses are stable and growing again. Yahoo! (YHOO)…
The UAW is in talks with the big Detroit car companies about taking on the responsibility for retiree health-care benefits. The move would take billions of dollars of liabilities away from the Big Three.…
AeroVironment Inc.(AVAV-NASDAQ) haspriced its IPO. This was one that we thought was supposed to pricelater in the week, but the demand was there for a premium pricing orthe late-week indication was not accurate. We…