Crocs Buyout Sounds Like a Crock
Kcdtsg via Wikimedia CommonsCrocs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) is surging on Wednesday on what feels a lot like some over-reporting or some serious hope for a company that has violated the trust of investors routinely.…
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Treasury Budget Deficit Shrinks in October, Now Only Very Unacceptable
The deficit is shrinking! Politicians will likely try to spin this as good news, because it sounds better than calling it less-bad. It is not good news when you see just how much money we are talking…
Wireless and Satellite Merger Landscape: T-Mobile, Sprint, Dish, DirecTV
ThinkstockThe fate of T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSEE: TMUS) is uncertain. It is not an uncertainty of earnings, but one of who will own it going forward. We have written about the possibilities of a…
Groupon Gets Its Own Daily Deal: Living Social Website Stays Down
LivingSocial.comSometimes having a website go down is a great thing for competitors. The daily deals site LivingSocial went down on Tuesday, and at noon Wednesday it was still down. News like this is music to…
Earnings Bar Set Very Low for Cisco Systems
ThinkstockCisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell. This matters because it is the leader in networking and communications equipment, and it also matters because it…
Analysts Look for All-Time Highs on Qualcomm, Intel Rivalry Odds
ThinkstockQualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) could be headed to new all-time highs if analyst research predictions come true. In the past two days we have seen two very positive analyst research reports on the heels…
Beware New Short Sellers in Twitter Stock
twitter.com/jimmykimmelThis week will mark two key events for the post-IPO trading of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR). The first issue is that traders and investors will begin to be able to legally short sell the…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: ATK, Qualcomm, Lululemon, Micron and More
Jon OggEarnings season is winding down, stocks are taking a breather after the DJIA and S&P 500 both hit new all-time highs, and now traders and investors alike have to start positioning their holdings…
Gap’s Athleta Brand Could Win From Lululemon PR Blunder
lululemonLululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) has a serious brand damage in the making. the question is whether it is permanent or whether or not it will pass over. The company’s scandal has moved from…
Fighting Low Stock Prices, Annaly Insiders Buy Shares
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is in the crazy world of mortgage-backed securities real estate investment trusts. These MBS REITs can be incredibly volatile, and they generally come with massive dividend yields to…
Crude Oil Prices Ready To Challenge 6-Month Lows
thinkstockMaybe you have noticed the price of gasoline has been coming down. It may be coming down further, and sooner rather than later. One WSJ report showed that about one-fourth of the nation is…
Did George Clooney Short Sell Tesla Too?
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is down yet again. We recently interpreted that Elon Musk told investors to sell their stock when he called the stock valued at more than it deserves. Now…
Android Surges as iPhone Market Share Falls
courtesy of SamsungApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has enjoyed a huge success with the iPhone variations to date. Apple still has the world’s most valuable company status, but there is a problem rising against it.…
Private Sector Report Challenges Labor Department Jobs Strength
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsLast Friday’s report from the Department of Labor was so strong, with more than 200,000 payrolls created in October, that we figured the report had to be riddled with errors.…
Analysts Duel Over LED Leaders
ThinkstockThe world of LED lighting has been one of significant promise, followed by waves of boom and bust for investors who have chased after the more efficient light bulbs. Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO)…
Dendreon Restructuring Aims to Thwart Weak Provenge Sales
ThinkstockDendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) has been down and out, and now the company is going to try a restructuring strategy after earnings, in an effort to save it from the worst case scenario. The…
Short Sellers Made Big Changes in High-Yield Dividend Stocks
We have now seen the short interest reports from the October 31 settlement date and have compared them to the October 15 settlement date. This is important because it reflects the opinions and bets…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Twitter, Atmel, Gogo, Hologic, Vodafone and More
Jon OggEarnings season may be winding down and the stock market may be close to all-time highs, but now traders and investors alike have to be considering how to position their portfolios and holdings…
Wynn Withdraws Pennsylvania Casino Application
courtesy of WynnResorts.comIt looks like Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) is going to keep its high-end domestic growth ambitions localized to Las Vegas, Nevada. Even if it wants to expand domestically, it will be…
Warren Buffett Likely Owns More DaVita, GE, IBM, Suncor, and Wells Fargo
ThinkstockThis is the week that we will get to see 13-D and 13-F filings from investment firms, and one notable one is always that of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). Investors love Warren Buffett…