thinkstockMellanox Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX) was one the great high-flyer stories of the first half of 2012, but ultimately valuation and reality caught up with the stock after shares rose from under $35 to…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsLast week’s first solid reading on the weekly jobless claims reading is being confirmed this Thursday. The Labor Department has announced that weekly jobless fell by 5,000 in the past…
ThinkstockFor the past almost 13 years, the stock market has been mired in a secular bear market. Sure there has been some strong rallies, especially when the market turned in March of 2009. None…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) cut to Hold at Jefferies, called an attractive entry point…
courtesy of Apple Inc.By now you know the news that is driving Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) lower and lower, but the earnings report and lower margins have an interesting side-effect here even if Apple is…
By Matthew YoheMatt Yohe at en.wikipedia CC-BY-3.0, from Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reported its first fiscal quarter earnings for 2013 and the consumer electronics giant turned in results of $13.81 in earnings…
thinkstockSanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) was already up big off the 2012 lows, but now we have earnings out. The flash memory leader turned in earnings of $1.05 in earnings per share on sales of…
ThinkstockMerely mentioning the word “union” along with labor can become a controversial and heated topic. We are going to leave the union versus non-union debate up to the readers, but new data is out…
Last night we saw the news that Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) hiked its dividend to show that it has the top position of core banking strength in America. We expect some similar…
ThinkstockIf you have heard of the growing burden of student loans on society, there is a new report out from the U.S. Census Bureau that coincides with this trend. This is the growing rates…
ThinkstockThe International Monetary Fund (or the IMF) issues guidance on global and country-specific economic expectations from time to time, but we now have the IMF’s 2013 World Economic Outlook for the globe and for…
ThinkstockCSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) has some somber words for the U.S. coal sector, despite what has been a handy recovery in the share prices of many of the sector leaders. The rail transportation giant is…
ThinkstockIt used to be a pretty simple equation. If you wanted to own a semiconductor stock you bought Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC). Then you held it for years and made an excellent return. The days…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is covered almost every hour by the financial media and reported on by outside websites quite literally thousands upon thousands of times each and every day. Today is…
ThinkstockIn an effort to meet their rising debt obligations, central banks around the globe have been printing money at a frantic pace. This phenomena is also leading to a global battle in which countries purposely…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Alcatel-Lucent S.A (NYSE: ALU) raised to Neutral from Sell at Citigroup. Baker Hughes Inc.…
ThinkstockMolycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) may have had some serious problems of late, but now the company is raising new capital and the move is adding pressure on the stock as this will be dilutive…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) has delivered on what we expect to be the first of the likely big bank dividend hikes in 2013. We would look for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has reported earnings for its fourth quarter of $5.39 per share before items and $29.3 billion in revenue. Sales were down 1% from a year ago…
courtesy of Google Inc.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is out with fourth-quarter earnings of $10.65 per share, and we caution investors about using the revenue numbers due to the sale of Motorola Home. Sales on an…