Lastest Stories by Douglas A. McIntyre

SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK) was already a screamer as shares were up a massive 300% from their 52-week lows due to a return to profitability in the June quarter (2 quarters early).  The flash...
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) just gave us earnings ahead of disk drive and storage rival Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) earnings due on Thursday.  Internal guidance from the sector and higher...
The IPO market has not been going well. Over the weekend we gave a detailed run down of how many busted IPOs we had seen occur in the last couple of months, and this is setting the market up for...
GSME Acquisition Co. became the second Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) this year to file paperwork with the SEC to go public. The blank check wants to assemble a China-based dealmaking...
Today China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) posted big numbers in its subscriber growth, claiming 500 million mobile users.  By this metric, China Mobile can claim the title of the worlds biggest mobile company....
We have already run the 5 of the 30 DJIA components that reported earnings this morning.  But we still have 7 more of the 30 DJIA components reporting during the rest of this week alone.   The...
Senior members of the Administration were out in force on the Sunday TV talk shows to criticize the multi-million  bonuses that many Wall St. bankers will get this year. Executives at companies that...
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) is trying the solar gimmick, yet this is actually just another step on building upon its social already-respectable image.  This morning the company announced that...
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts.  We have more detailed price and volume data along with added color over with links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:...
Updated throughout the day.Updated 12.33 PM EST: The CIA will start spying on social media activity  (CNET)Updated 10.15 AM EST:  Oil could hit $175 a barrel by 2016 making oil-realted stocks a bad...
The Labor Department has released the September Producer Price Index, the measure of wholesale inflation.  We did see a slightly raised Consumer Price Index last week and that had many of the...
Third quarter earnings at Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) came in under expectations which is pushing shares down before the open.Revenue fell 4% to $8.4 billion. Net income was flat at $2.15 billion. EPS was...
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) beat most Wall St. expectations, and improved its guidance for the balance of 2009. The news pushed the stock up before the open of trading.CAT said it had a  Q3 profit of...
We have seen the earnings reports from all five DJIA components which were on deck to report this Tuesday.  We are seeing a theme here: almost all posted lower earnings from a year ago that still...
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) had a better quarter than many expected. The drug company reported financial results for third-quarter 2009. Revenues were $11.6 billion, a decrease of 3%. EPS fell to $.51 from...