Texas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: TXN) has issued its mid-quarter update as a harbinger of what to expect for its third quarter report. The chip-maker sees earnings of $0.38 to $0.42 EPS and sees sales…
It’s official! Not only was the U.S. Treasury sale of American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) shares an overwhelming success, the AIG share overallotment was exercised as well. Now the taxpayers are not only…
The Labor Department has more data out that supports the theory that the very disappointing payrolls data from August will not be remedied in September. The Labor Department showed that its total job openings counted…
If you were just focused on the poor earnings report from Titan Machinery, Inc. (NASDAQ: TITN) in agricultural equipment sales this week, the report may be a one-off item. Still, the news was bad…
Expectations for the huge product release this week from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are high. Despite a weak quarter with iPhone buyers holding out for the iPhone 5, this launch could bring in a…
If you were told that gold miners were highly dependent on gold prices, you would probably respond immediately with a phrase that starts with “No” and ends with “Sherlock.” This is the case brought…
Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) is trading higher today on what is probably nothing more than additional bad news for the company, if you read between the lines. The troubled phone maker’s Nokia Siemens Networks mobile…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE: AU) started as Outperform at Credit Suisse. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:…
You just know that the report from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is not going to be very positive when it is titled “Few Positive Signs for the Future, Little Change Likely…
American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) should be considered a huge winner on the U.S. Treasury stake sale. The stock did drop marginally on the news, and the shares are being sold at a slight…
Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) is out with a pricing of one huge corporate bond offering. The sale is for $4 billion in total. As you will see below, the retail pharmacy giant is borrowing money…
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray is considered one of the top axes as far as analysts who cover Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). He has been a very vocal bull in Apple for years now, cheering…
You have probably heard of the GoDaddy.com “outage” which has taken place today. The hacker collective Anonymous has taken credit for taking down the GoDaddy website. As GoDaddy claims to be the internet’s largest…
Consumer Credit is going the wrong way. In the month of July we saw a contraction by $3.28 billion. For the month of June, Consumer Credit was revised to up by about $11.8 billion…
Something interesting happened today, and it is going to take a hell of a lot more than Danica Patrick to fix it. GoDaddy’s network has been interrupted. It appears as though it is not just…
courtesy Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has been killing the short sellers in the last two trading sessions. What got the whole move started as wan analyst upgrade…
LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: LF) had been looking like a great story in the spending dollars for learning based toys in the childrens market. If you have children, you have probably run across LeapFrog’s toys.…
Any time a secondary offering from a share sale comes out, most investors just assume that it is a bad development for existing shareholders. That is usually the case because it dilutes the right…
Just last week we featured the nations with the world’s highest unemployment rates. Of course it is only logical that Greece would have been in on that list. What was surprising was that the…
Gold bugs are finding a mixed reception today, but there is some concerning news out of South Africa that may resemble a bit of the same concern after deadly police responses during a labor strike in…