Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Dryships, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS), Impax Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IPXL), Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISPH), Motricity,…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Floods not seen in the modern era have shuttered coal mines throughout an area of Queensland, Australia, the size of Texas. Several large international miners, including Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP), will take huge losses.…
Hyundai and its stablemate Kia had almost no presence in the US car market five years ago. Hyundai and Kia now have 7.8% of monthly domestic sales, higher than Nissan, and have begun to…
The role of directors and their performance are not as visible as are the performances of public company CEOs. However, they are nearly as important in some cases. Boards have the final say in…
The determination of foreign governments to protect their national technology franchises or censor information that originates outside their borders could limit the growth prospects of Skype, Facebook, and Twitter. That’s something competition has failed…
Facebook raised money at a $50 billion valuation. (NYT) Foreign commercial real estate investors ranked the US as the No.1 location to buy properties. (Reuters) Oil is unlikely to surge quickly above $100. (Reuters)…
Tickets for American Airlines flights are no longer sold at Expedia or Orbitz. American (NYSE: AMR) will have to rely on its own site AA.com and smaller travel sites. Orbitz and Expedia have such…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be a technology marvel, but is has an Achille’s Heel. At the change of the year, its alarm feature does not work in several parts of the world. According…
China’s central government said its PMI growth slowed in December, which confirmed similar data released last week by HSBC. China may use the data to show that it does not need to allow the…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Border’s Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP), BSQUARE Corporation (NASDAQ: BSQR), IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX), Molycorp, Inc.…
China now has 450 million people online, a number nearly 50% greater than the population of the US. The Xinhua news agency reports that Wang Chen, head of China’s State Council Information Office, released figures…
It has been generally assumed that one of the advantages Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has in the smartphone business is its App Store. That may be much less true than it was a year ago.…
The media and some Wall St. analysts have pressed the point that $90 crude could derail the recovery. The argument seems to make sense unless experts look to the beginning of 2010. The price…
Jobless data and factory PMI raised hope about the recovery (Reuters) Facebook move past Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as the most visited site in the US (Reuters) Crude is up 12% this year (Reuters) A…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Endo Pharmaceutical Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ENDP), Ossen Innovation Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: OSN), VisionChina…
Silver prices have risen more than 80% in 2010, far more than either gold, at about 26%, and copper, at around 28%. Aside from speculation, there are a couple of reasons for the enormous…
Sixty-five percent of American internet users have paid for content, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The figure does not mean much if theses will not pay for content again and…
Tens of thousands of new products are released at the annual Consumer Electronics Show held once a year in Las Vegas. Technology company executives party late into the night and rise early to manage…
The HSBC study of China’s purchasing manufacturing index, which closely parallels the official numbers from the People’s Republic, dropped to 54.4 from 55.3 in November. Analysts seized on the data to say that monetary…