TwitterThis weekend will mark yet another annual shareholder meeting for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). Warren Buffett has even started to use Twitter to kick off what is often called The Woodstock of Wall…
Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHE) is a very strange company. Imagine owning the Roto Rooter drain cleaning and plumbing company AND owning a for-profit hospice provider. Now a Department of Justice suit against the company…
ThinkstockToday’s big news on top of a record for the DJIA and S&P 500 was the drop in unemployment to 7.5% and the better-than-expected payrolls of 165,000. Now we have the Institute for Supply…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has just hit a new milestone: DJIA 15,000! The move is on the heels of a weak earnings season, as far as revenue growth, but a better-than-expected unemployment report.…
ThinkstockUnited States Cellular Corp. (NYSE: USM) is the “forgotten about” cellular carrier as it is not all over the country but a small player with 5.7 million customers in 26 states, compared to the…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) made news this week with a record $17 billion corporate bond offering. What is so different about this offering is that it is meant to fund its…
As the stock market keeps hitting new highs, the spreads of high-yield bonds and junk bonds has been narrowing and narrowing. We even recently highlighted that these spreads were reaching what submariners would call…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with the April Employment Situation Report, and it is a report that the market will view positively. Some are going to question the unemployment rate…
Investors and traders are constantly looking for fresh research ideas from Wall Street that will lead to higher income or more profits. We review many fresh research calls to find great ideas from value…
These are the top analyst downgrades and cautious research notes from Wall Street for Friday May 3, 2013.
ThinkstockWith West Texas Intermediate crude holding above $90 and the price of natural gas back over the $4 handle for the first time in years, U.S. oil-field services stocks finally have started to rebound. The…
thinkstockSunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) released its corporate earnings shortly before the close rather than after the close, and the result is that another big solar move higher may be underway. The company beat on…
ThinkstockThe housing market numbers may have recently softened up a tad, but things in the housing market are still much better for those wanting buy and own a home compared the last five years. Many…
ThinkstockWhat happens when the last person joins a long-lasting trend? Chances are high that the trend is ending. We are not going to dare call a peak in Twitter here, but the notion that…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsTrading at the NYSE Euronext’s NYSE MKT exchange was halted briefly today. What is important here is not that the trading halt barely last two minutes, but that more than 400 symbols…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsThe corporate earnings report from Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has shares trading higher the day after the report. Many analysts have keyed in discussing many metrics, but the reality is…
ThinkstockThis morning, Royal Gold Inc. (NASDAQ: RGLD) was the latest gold player to report its corporate earnings. The good news is that the gold company revenues and earnings were up. The bad news is that it…
ThinkstockThe Institute for Supply Management has reported the regional New York ISM data for April, saying that the hiccups have faded. April’s regional data for New York rose to 58.3 in what nearly reversed…
Wikimedia CommonsIntel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has been without a formal CEO replacement for some time now. The good news is that the wait is over and the company will have proper corporate governance again.…
ThinkstockIf there is one sector on Wall Street that seems to never go out of favor, its companies that make, sell and distribute liquor, beer and wine. For global companies involved in this industry,…