Bloomberg TV has just reported that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is now seeking a ban on sales of eight Samsung devices in the United States. After Friday’s patent victory over Samsung, this should probably…
Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman is already out with an amended filing after his activist investor activities increased against General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP), which also brings up a bit more of a tangle…
AMRIt is almost hard to believe, but AMR Corporation (NASDAQOTH: AAMRQ.PK) has proven to be profitable in the month of July. AMR has made an SEC Filing which discloses its Monthly Operating Report for…
All you had to do was review the recent earnings reports from Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and you knew that a PC slowdown was still underway. Unfortunately, the trend remains…
The Dallas Federal Reserve is out with its August manufacturing and business activity report. The report on business activity came in to -1.6 in the month of August, versus a reading of -13.2 in…
The short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and low-priced shares is often highly volatile. We tracked some rather large moves up and down in this group for the August 15 settlement date’s short…
Short sellers appear to be increasing their bets against some of the key dividend stocks we track each and every day, judging by the August 15 settlement date for the short interest versus the…
Short sellers have not unilaterally increased their bets against casinos, but there was a rise in the short interest in this sector’s leaders on the August 15 settlement date versus the July 31 settlement date.…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to open at new all-time highs this morning after it won a $1 billion patent verdict against Samsung on Friday. The news is driving shares up almost 3%…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday morning. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reiterated Buy with $264 target at BofA/ML.…
The short interest in bank stocks looks to be one where investors and speculators are easing up on their attacks of the quality banks if you review the short interest changes from August 15…
We have prepared an earnings calendar for the week ahead. Considering that it is going to be a very lightly attended week for investors there are just not that many key earnings report on…
What is currently Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to become Hurricane Isaac by Tuesday morning in the Gulf of Mexico. The projections before the last 18 to 24 hours showed this looking more and…
Reports of a letter from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, are offering a boost to financial markets going into the weekend ahead of…
It was just on Monday that we released the 24/7 Wall St. “12 Big Dividend Hikes Coming Before The End of 2012” and we already have one of the twelve coming true. Altria Group…
We have long wondered if (or when) the wave of solar mergers was coming. We have seen several small deals, but so far we have yet to see any serious M&A in the solar…
So what if the S&P 500 hit a new 52-week high early in the week. That was then, and the market has been looking for support ever since. Today we are tracking the daily…
Spain is again taking the center stage, even after Greece’s Prime Minister Samaras was meeting with Angela Merkel of Germany. And now we have seen headlines on the broad tape that Spain is not engaged…
The Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSEMKT: VNM) has had a volatile week. After all, the Vietnamese markets have been under pressure from a growing debt and a slowing of growth, but the arrest of…
The Commerce Department is out with its report on durable goods for the month of July. The report shows that the headline data was up by much more than expected at +4.2%. Dow Jones…