China’s PMI growth slowed and the current monetary policy may be sufficient to curb inflation (Reuters) The use of solar power by China is rapidly expanding (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) sued to stop shipments…
There have been 10 calendar years during the last one hundred in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 30%. The reason for the sharp increases were, in some cases, due…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Aixtron AG (NASDAQ: AIXG), Cardiome Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CRME), Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:…
The well to do drove Christmas week spending this year. Perhaps the prospect of extended tax cuts was part of the fuel. According to Gallup, “An upper-income spending splurge led the way to strong…
OPEC can set export and production quotas. China cannot set very tight limits on the export of its rare earth metals. The US says China does not have the right. Japan says the same.…
The Chinese economy is supposed to be much stronger than America’s. GDP growth in the People’s Republic hovers near 10%. The GDP improvement in the US this year may be no better than 2.5%.…
The Federal Reserve says it has inflation under control. More and more economic data says that is not true. Wheat, copper, and gold prices are at or near all-time highs. The head of huge…
A survey by CareerBuilder shows more firms plan to hire full-time people in 2011 compared to the two previous years (MarketWatch) The US may petition the WTO after China said it would cut rare…
Forecasters who believe that a 5% GDP improvement year was just around the corner in 2011 where disappointed by the new S&P/Case-Shiller data.” The Home Price Indices” showed a deceleration in the annual growth…
GM’s (NYSE: GM) stock rose 3% to $35.65 on positive comments about the car company from Barclays Capital and Credit Suisse. The optimistic outlook was premature. GM is expected to lose more market share…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for December 28, 2010.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Logitech International SA (NASDAQ: LOGI), Mannkind Corporation (NASDAQ: MNKD), Santarus Inc. (NASDAQ: SNTS), and Sinovac…
The advertisement at several financial website reads “23-year-old college student John Bell isn’t like most of his classmates. In 2009 he turned a $10,000 student loan into $1,000,000 by betting on risky penny stocks.…
The third generation of Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle e-reader was the best selling product in the e-commerce firm’s history. The announcement was confused with a number of pieces of data which did not quite…
Short sellers elbowed their way into telecom stocks in the period that ended December 15. The move is probably due to several reasons. Landline subscriber counts continue to drop as more home telephone users…
Obama will delay the release of his new budget by a week (Reuters) US gas prices moved above $3, the highest since October 2008 (Reuters) Gold rose on Asia purchases (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
The population of the United States has increased steadily by roughly 2.5 million people every year since World War II. Throughout prosperity and hard times, Americans continue to have families. Many of the country’s…
We’ve often noted that energy efficiency is the low-hanging fruit of US efforts to reduce energy consumption, lower polluting emissions, and decrease US dependence on foreign sources of energy. One of the plums on…
Next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas could well see the beginning of the next round of technology development. Chip giants Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) are…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Alimera Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: ALIM), A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ: APWR), IncrediMail Ltd. (NASDAQ:…