Chuy’s Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHUY) is on a mission. Since its initial public offering last week for this Mexican restaurant chain, the stock has risen every single trading day since the IPO. What is…
Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group, LLC (NASDAQ: DFRG) is regaining its IPO price today and is no longer trading as a busted IPO. After hitting as low as $12.00 on Friday after a $13.00 initial…
Despite some softness in the gold market, Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE: ABX) is up 1.7% on the day at $32.91. It is a rather impressive move when you consider that S&P is downgrading the gold…
Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is not following logic right now, at least sort of. Andrew Bary defended the stock over the weekend in Barron’s in an article titled “Beaten-Down Zynga Is Worth a Look.” Apparently it…
Last week was a jam-packed week of earnings reports and this week has many key reports. We have provided earnings previews for 11 companies we expect to follow this week. Estimates are from Thomson…
It was just on Friday that we signaled that the Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) share price reaction to its earnings report may have marked a bottom in the coal sector. The reality is…
Corn is going to wreck whatever gasoline savings we had going into summer. By driving up the cost of the ethanol gasoline additive and by driving up feed costs for animals, the drought is…
The Dallas Federal Reserve’s July Business Activity report came in with a huge disappointment this morning. The reading was all the way down at -13.2 for the month of July from 5.8 in June.…
Stocks are currently higher on what is looking like a mixed day so far. We are on the back of big market gains so the chart has to be watched closely at the resistance levels. …
Retail sales might not exactly be setting any blistering pace of growth, but Retail Metrics has a report out that shows a traffic boost at the end of July should offer a boost to…
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is back in play. We reported this as one of the companies that could be taken over as soon as this summer, and we now have more news…
The Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index, referred to as the CFMMI, is not coming in negative like so many manufacturing reports we have been seeing of late. The index rose by about 1.1% in…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday morning. Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) cut to Underperform at Wells Fargo. Cash America…
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) sounds doomed. The damage sets a sour tone for the week’s solar lineup as First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is set to report earnings this week. Suntech…
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has sent Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (NASDAQ: SLXP) and Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNX) a Complete Response Letter (CRL) regarding the drug Relistor’s supplemental new drug application. Relistor is an injection…
The week ahead is going to be a busy week. There are many traditional events to watch, but by now the market participants and investors have learned that they have to pay close attention…
Earnings season peaked this week and we have seen many huge winners and losers emerge from this season. On Friday we have two very unusual earnings gainers and we think these names will merit…
The White House is increasing its outlook for the U.S. economy. We will leave this up to you to decide whether or not it is a ploy. Despite only a 1.5% GDP gain for…
Equities are continuing their rise this Friday on renewed hope for Europe. These are of course rumors, but the rumors are based upon “central banking officials who wish to remain anonymous.” The DJIA (NYSEMKT: DIA)…
We have recently warned about a dividend bubble that is inflating in the high dividend yield stocks like the telecom giants. Both AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) are now…