Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is said to now be looking at a $6 billion debt offering in three different tranches. The company used the “for general corporate purposes” explanation but it also said it…
Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) looks like it more than just challenged. As it is on the road to being one of the next great penny stocks (a dubious honor), Moody’s has downgraded the rating…
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) is out with its 2012 bonuses and its 2013 pay packages. Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson is getting a 6% raise as he will make $2.717 million in 2013. Stephen…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) appear to be rekindling at least some of their prior relationship. Disney Studios has just announced a multi-year premium Pay TV window agreement…
America needs to get ready for the politicians to go over the fiscal cliff. That is how things sound as of now at least. It is becoming more and more evident, if not obvious,…
If you have been trading or investing in stocks for more than a decade, one of the greatest changes that has taken place through time is the move from fractional pricing of shares to…
Net 1 UEPS Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: UEPS) is finding out just how fun and complicated it can be when a foreign company is being investigated by the Department of Justice. The South African payment solutions…
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) has a new macroeconomic report in its RIC Report series. As it is December now, it is the investment ideas for 2013. BofA has 10 themes it is…
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has filed its automatic shelf registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission. While these are normally just open shelf filings, Intel has already added another filing that will generate…
Any Wall St. pundit will tell you that the overprinting of money is a train wreck waiting to happen. The Federal Reserve balance sheet sits at almost three trillion dollars after two rounds of quantitative…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Career Education Corp. (NASDAQ: CECO) cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo. Corning Inc. (NYSE:…
We are entering the closing stretch of 2013, and Wall St. is starting to make its adjustments for 2013 S&P 500 price targets. As 2013 gets closer we will make adjustments to new firms…
Like all bubbles that have burst, the housing crisis left an extremely scarred landscape. What used to be a fairly routine mortgage process for a qualified home buyer has turned into a not so…
Jeff Bezos, founder, chairman and CEO of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is taking some extra cash out of the company. This may just be spending change for billionaires but this is empire-making money for…
PDL BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: PDLI) shareholders are going to be scratching their heads trying to figure out what is going on. The company announced after the close on Monday that Bruce Tomlinson has resigned…
Speaker of the House John Boehner has sent a letter to President Obama suggesting a more balanced $4.6 trillion approach to avert the coming fiscal cliff. The letter goes mostly back to the Simpson-Bowles…
Eric Rosengren, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has spoken on Monday defending the latest Fed efforts around asset purchases. He maintains that the Fed does have the tools to counter a…
Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) is trading higher this morning after Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage with a Buy rating with a price target of $91 per share. Today’s gain comes from a blended average…
Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) may still be down and out, but its shares have made a major recovery from the bottom. After a Goldman Sachs upgrade to Buy on Friday with a…
Today’s data from the Institute for Supply Management is showing that the November Manufacturing Report on Business was an utter disappointment. The ISM figure came in at 49.5%, which is under the 50.0% growth-contraction…