Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) was down big on Thursday after its earnings report. When you consider how small the company is in the grand scheme of things, and when you consider…
If you are growing about as sick of David Einhorn and Greenlight Capital in his fight against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) as we are, there is an interesting twist that took place on Thursday.…
ThinkstockIf you are obese in Europe, you are not about to get a little pill to take to help you change. You will just have to lose that weight the old-fashioned way through diet, exercise,…
ThinkstockThe results of the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) earnings report come with a very double-edged sword. If you took away all of the pressure from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the PC business and…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is out with its anticipated earnings report. The PC-maker and IT-services provider was up going into the close on hopes of a breakup or a buyout in the…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is out with a report via the Merrill Lynch research team showing more data on the endless inflows of capital rotating back into the stock market. The firm…
ThinkstockWynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) is perhaps one of the craziest infighting scenarios that investors have seen in modern times. The fight for control and influence has been very odd and has actually been…
The minutes of the January 29 to 30 FOMC meeting released on Wednesday were the blame of the market sell-off. The communication so far is that this signals more and more growing trends of…
We keep talking about big great American companies which are hiking their dividends. Now we have Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) out with news that the consumer products giant’s board of directors has approved a…
ThinkstockInvestors of BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) have taken a beating along with many other mining investors in recent days. There is an interesting multi-year outlook piece around new CEOs and the…
courtesy of Google Inc.Wall St. analysts take a beating sometimes, and they are praised at other times. The lessons of the endless chasing of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) with higher and higher analyst price targets…
ThinkstockMeredith Whitney was applauded for her call about the impending doom of the banking sector ahead of the recession, but she has been criticized ever since her call for billions and billions at risk…
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyThe dividend hike train continues to march forward and onward. Now we have an investor taste test happening between Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP), as the…
ThinkstockWe have heard it on Wall St., in Las Vegas, even in the movies: “show me the money.” There is a good reason why. Corporate spending is the fuel that drives profits, and strong…
ThinkstockThis morning brought the weekly jobless claims and the Consumer Price Index from the Labor Department. Now we have two more key bits of data hitting the tape. The Conference Board’s report on leading…
ThinkstockThe world of beer stocks is not that large any longer, and there really are not enough players to evaluate as a real public investable sector. Boston Beer Co. Inc. (NYSE: SAM) has grown…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has two key reports out this Thursday. We have seen a rise in the weekly jobless claims. Consumer prices also ticked higher. Weekly jobless claims rose by…
ThinkstockThe stock market sold off on Wednesday on the mere mention that the governors at the Federal Reserve are starting to discuss the ending or at least tapering off of the long running quantitative…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) raised to Outperform at Bernstein. BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) cut…
ThinkstockRepros Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: RPRX) is surging on clinical update news this Thursday. The company’s Androxal Phase 3 program has been given a receipt of written guidance from the Food & Drug Administration. This…