Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(BAB)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UL)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DT)(DB)(SI)(ALA)(AXA)(FTE)(V) Markets in Europe were modestly higher at 6.05 AM New York time. The FTSE was up .3% to 6,100. Barclays was up .4% to 689.5. BP was up .4% to 580.5. British…
Stocks: (SLB)(XOM) Schlumberger dominates the business of providing services to the world’s largest oil and gas companies. It is currently helped by the fact that oil and gas are harder and harder to find…
Stocks; )JNJ)(AMD)(INTC)(GM)(NYT)(F)(TIVO)(VOD)(YHOO)(AMGN) According to Reuters, the US economy was stronger that first throught for the third quarter. GDP growth was revised up to 2.2%. Reuters writes that US Air will meet with Delta’s creditors…
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ))HMC)(HIT)(NIPNY)(NTT)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHN)(PCW)(HBC) Asian markets were sharply higher. The Nikkei was up 1.2% to 16,274. Bridgestone rose 1.8% to 2535. Canon was up .7% to 6120. Daiwa Securities was up 3% to 1327. Fuji Film…
Stocks: (GM)(TM) Toyota’s sales of its Prius hybrid are lousy. The big Japanese car company blames that on the fact that the US government is not giving out incentives to buy the car. If…
Netlist (NLST) has been an IPO that hasn’t been "on again, off again" but it has been one that has been on the IPO docket without a resounding "We love you" from the street. …
Just a few days ago, the new Microsoft Zune multimedia device was dead It had fallen out of the Amazon "Top Ten" consumer electroincs sellers. Stick a fork in it. But, recent data from…
Stocks: (BBT)(WMT)(DELL) Best Buy’s CEO has stated that he will match Wal-Mart’s pricing on consumer electronics. As a matter of fact, he will match anyone’s prices. The consumer electronics retailer is competing with mega-stores…
From The Accounting Observer Huron Consulting Group, the forensic accounting firm, has put together an interesting study on the presence of accounting types on the audit committees of publicly-traded firms. “Accounting types” is defined…
From BioHealth Investor Shares of Dynavax Technologies Corp (DVAX) jumped more than 30% on Wednesday after the company announced that its Hepatitis B phase III clinical study showed positive results. The announcement came following…
From BioHealth Investor Targeted Genetics Stock Continues Unexplained Rise Shares of Targeted Genetics (TGEN) continued to rise on Wednesday gaining more than 13% to $5.39. On Monday, TGEN stock jumped more than 50%. Both…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas TIF reported 3rd Q EPS of $0.18 (excluding one time tax benefit and gain on securities sale of $0.03), were above street expectations of $0.16. US…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Our readers are quite familiar with our concern that excessive capacity additions are going to make an already bad inventory situation even worse. Texas Instruments CEO…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have closely followed the overcapacity situation in LCD panels, and have maintained that the way to solve the problem is to produce only as many…
By Willaim Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have been skeptical of the turnaround at Xerox (XRX). Although the company frequently points to the strong growth in their color and digital product lines,…
Cramer said the mechanics of the market are a secret to most. This moves stocks in the short term, and the institutons will hate him for this. The mechanics of a stock moving up…
Stocks: (VZ)(CMCSA)(CVC) According to Barron’s, Comcast was able to raise rates for basic cable by 5.4%. The data to estimate the figure was based on a survey of several markets by Berstein Research. So,…
DJIA 12,226.73; Up 90.28 (0.74%)NASDAQ 2,432.23; Up 19.62 (0.81%)S&P500 1,399.35; Up 12.63 (0.91%)10YR-Bond 4.521% Up 0.012NYSE Volume 2,732,627,000NASD Volume 1,870,362,000 Q3 GDP was revised from an initial…
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC around 2:45 PM EST, Jim Cramer outlined which was better between Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) now that BAC has eclipsed C’s market cap. Cramer…
ComScore has come out with its data on Cyber-Monday, the weird appellation given to the first day after the Thanksgiving weekend. The day went better than expected. Revenue from online ecommerce hit $608 million,…