Kayak Software Corporation (NASDAQ: KYAK) has not exactly been immune to controversy, and its first public earnings report is going to keep the term ‘controversy’ alive in its shares. The online travel company priced…
We now have the Minutes of the August 1, 2012 FOMC meeting, and the long and short of the matter is that more Federal Reserve officials are getting on board for more quantitative easing…
Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. (NYSE: QIHU) may be one of the top gainers after earnings today, but this stock has still never recaptured its post-IPO highs if you look back to the year…
Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected to become Hurricane Isaac, has an interesting political twist. With finance being such a crucial portion of the opposite sides this year, that makes for a fiscal angle…
The S&P 500 hit a new 52-week high and 2012 high on Tuesday, but only briefly as resistance proved to be too strong after too much of a run. Today we are tracking the…
There is value in all those old folks living in retirement homes and in retirement communities. The latest deal in the world of mergers and acquisitions has Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (NYSE: SRZ) being…
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is supposed to be nonpartisan, but the updated 2012 budget projection is just alarming, and its projections under the coming fiscal cliff need to be paid attention to after…
Wikimedia CommonsBloomberg TV has been running a special this morning about the poor turnaround that Ron Johnson has engineered at JCPenney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP). Our take is that this is the beginning of…
“Can I just PayPal that?” is a question you do not hear too often inside of retail stores, where credit cards have ruled over cash for about two decades. That is about to change as…
Today’s release of the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) likely will be reviewed closely by economists and Federal Reserve watchers. This is due out at 2:00 p.m. EST and should really…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Wednesday morning. AES Corp. (NYSE: AES) named Bear of the Day at Zacks.…
Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) saw its gains peter out and then melt away today. The news is that shareholder Brown & Williamson Holdings Inc. dumped more than $50 million worth of its equity…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has reported its quarterly earnings and the results are not exactly driving the initial interest the way Michael Dell would probably want. The PC giant reported earnings of $0.50 in…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is not being upgraded formally by Standard & Poor’s. but the ratings agency is saying that Google is now on positive credit watch after its revenues have risen almost 30%…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hit a new all-time high today at $674.88, but things have turned around and the stock is sinking. The drop is hard to imagine as even impacting, but the market…
Good news for chip stocks, particularly flash memory makers. Sterne Agee analyst Vijay Rakesh is out with another positive note showing favorable trends for both SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) as…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Tuesday and the stock has a lot of room for improvement. Despite issuing a very honorable starting point for…
The week ahead of the oh-so important Labor Day weekend has something that Joe Public as the consumer is not going to like. This is particularly the case for those with families who have…
You have heard over and over that more and more regulation is hurting the banking and finance sector, but what about the good old manufacturing sector? A new report from NERA Economic Consulting was…
Jon OggStandard & Poor’s has issued what could be considered yet another warning-lite for North American credit ratings as the chances of a U.S. recession have risen. S&P warned that the odds of a true…