Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) shares were up almost 2% ahead of the company’s operational update. The stock was halted for this update and the stock is now in the red, but it is driving peers…
The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is going to try to make good on its botched IPO of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). This is not really good to the public, at least not directly,…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is back on the chart breakout watch and it has risen at a time that the broader markets have been selling off. The shareholder vote last week was a…
We had two rather large secondary offerings today where private equity firms are unloading stock. The tally was about $3.4 billion that the market had to absorb in new shares as Kinder Morgan, Inc.…
The weekly oil inventories are out from the Department of Energy and we have yet another trend that is good for the consumer but probably not the greatest news for oil bulls. Still, the…
Gold and silver are finally acting in the manner they should be again. For months and months, gold (and silver as a more speculative gold trade) investors and speculators were having an identity crisis…
Canaccord Genuity is keying in on what we saw yesterday as a threat to content delivery network players. Its telecom analyst Greg Miller has shown that the new effort from Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX)…
While this data is a first quarter revision, the trend may have been hit that worker productivity may have peaked. Worker productivity fell by -0.9%, which is worse than the -0.5% prelimnary report and…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) Raised to Hold from Sell at Argus. CIT Group…
The European Central Bank is leaving its refi rate unchanged at 1.00%. Perhaps the larger issue is what will be said by Mario Draghi later this morning at the ECB press conference. If you have been…
Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: LEE) is a tiny media company with news and advertising. It serves midsize and small markets in the United States with 52 daily and 39 Sunday newspapers, as well as…
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) still has another three weeks or so before its official quiet period ends and the research analysts who were in the underwriting group can initiate coverage. Still we have seen…
You have heard the term “smoking kills.” The new fight is against fat, salt, sugar, and empty calories as America is trying to pick up its fight against obesity and the myriad of diseases…
As oil went from $105 to under $85 in just over a month, you can imagine that the drop was not too good for Big Oil. In fact, the news was pretty dismal and…
SEC filings often have unique filings of corporate actions or actions against companies by their shareholders. Sometimes they are nothing short of very odd. An obscure filing is one called the “PX14A6G” is meant…
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has had a very difficult 2012. Being the independent flash memory leader at a time when smartphones and tablets are taking over would theoretically be a good thing. It has…
The Congressional Budget Office puts out reports that are supposed to be not tied to either party but which are supposed to be indicative of the situation as it stands today with a forward…
We have been growing more and more used to economic reports showing near-recessionary levels or worse in recent weeks. The manufacturing and factory orders slowdown is one thing, but the newest report from the…
China, India, Brazil… all part of the BRIC nations along with Russia. The growth of those three nations has been slowing and the concern is growing that these nations and much of Latin America are…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD) Cut to Hold at ThinkEquity. Catalyst Health Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:…