courtesy of Cisco SystemsCisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has now reported its second-quarter earnings report. We suggested in our earnings preview that the bar was set very low because of the poor report last…
The U.S. Treasury released its Budget statement for January 2014 on Wednesday afternoon. The deficit of $10.4 billion was far narrower than the $30.8 billion deficit expected by Bloomberg. It even came close to…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may finally be on the verge of changing its method of acting like a non-profit entity. With margins running at close to zero, or sometimes negative, now it seems as…
ThinkstockWednesday brings yet another chance at a huge lottery winning, and it would instantly create a new empire owner. The current Powerball lottery from Pennsylvania is now up to $284 million. The Powerball jackpot starts at $40…
ThinkstockControl4 Corp. (NASDAQ: CTRL) surged after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report. This is a home automation player with wider ambitions than just your new home. While the stock gained visibility after Google’s $3.2 billion…
Home Depot said Wednesday it expects to hire about 80,000 part-time workers for the spring season, the biggest selling season of the year. Rival Lowe's Companies has not announced its plans yet.
January was a month that short sellers have been dreaming of. Here are top six names that saw the highest percentage of short covering.
Cisco Systems will report its fiscal second-quarter after the close of trading on Wednesday. 24/7 Wall St. has outlined the analyst expectations, the analyst bias, options trading expectations and the chart, and it has…
24/7 Wall St. has decided to track some of the top increases in the short interest of NYSE stocks for the period ended January 31, 2014. They include Caterpillar, MasterCard, J.C. Penney and Verizon.
Zynga has filed a shelf registration statement that will allow the company to sell new shares into the market. This proposed secondary offering will be for up to 28,178,201 shares, which are worth a…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, February 12, 2014. They include Amazon, Control4, Ocwen Financial, Sprint and Veeco Instruments.
Sprint now owns Clearwire, or at least they are together as a quasi tracking stock under Softbank. Most wireless subscribers seen news of price wars of late, but the price of a monthly CLEAR…
Courtesy Procter & GambleProcter & Gamble Co.(NYSE: PG) has issued an earnings update to reflect what it called significant currency exchange rate movements. The consumer products giant is adjusting its total sales and earnings…
ThinkstockFacebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) may have a problem down the road if its teenage user rates do not start to normalize. Or will it? The answer depends upon whom you speak to on this…
ThinkstockHealth insurance providers are not having a good start to 2014. The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is not bringing in enough young subscribers to offset the costs of those who are in their…
It looked like the Sirius XM buyout was suddenly having problems as recently as last week. That may no longer be the case. What investors need to know is that the merger is not…
CenturyLink is a highly shorted stock, in part because of its major dividend yield, one of the highest in its peer group. So what happens when you see an analyst upgrade a stock like…
Groupon is a company that can use all the help it can get. Shares were hammered on Tuesday after the departure of a key officer of the company. Is this a case of traders…
Infoblox is getting slaughtered after its earnings report. The network automation firm posted a surprise sequential revenue drop due to weak ordering trends. A weak January was augmented by weak federal orders.
Canadian Solar traded lower on Tuesday after the solar player announced a secondary offering. The company sold 2.6 million shares of common stock, as well as up to $100 million in convertible notes.