Treasury Auctions Showing Investor Fear Sentiment
The U.S. Treasury just sold $35 billion in two-year notes and the demand for this auction was the highest since last November when equity markets had faced serious weakness in the weeks and months…
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Jon C. Ogg
Full 360-Degree Dell Earnings Preview
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is set to report earnings after the close, one day before rival Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reports earnings. Dell is expected to report earnings of $0.46 EPS (down from $0.55…
Getting Ready For Large Blackrock Share Supply (BLK, BCS)
Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is about to get a huge amount of shares dumped onto the stock market. Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is set to unload a stake of about 19.6% or so which was…
Large Stock/Option Volume Alerts in Seabridge Gold
Seabridge Gold, Inc. (NYSE: SA) is a company small enough and obscure enough that we would rarely cover it. So what happens when investors are starting to pile back into major gold stocks? The…
After The Fall, Huge Upside & Value In Gold/Silver Miners (GDX, SIL, ABX, GG, NEM, AU, KGC, AEM, GFI, AUY, IAG, HMY, EGO, RGLD, SLW, PAAS)
Gold and silver have finally indicated that the free fall we saw over the last month may have at least stabilized. The markets are mixed today in the commodities and the miners and we…
Retail Sales Mostly Holding Up So Far In May
Redbook Research reports each week on the status of retail sales. Usually these weekly reports do not really matter but this week may be an exception even if these are not exactly market-moving data. …
Does A Ralph Lauren Dividend Double Matter To Peers?
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) has what would appear to be good news in most headline watching: the high-end apparel maker is doubling its dividend. Unfortunately this is getting lost in the shuffle after…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ABMD, MT, BXP, DPZ, DRYS, FET, GPS, BLOX, LYB, OAK, POOL, SNTA, TSLA, URBN, WPI, ZIP)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. ABIOMED Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD) Cut to Neutral at Lazard Capital. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) named Bear…
World’s Top Brands Led By Apple, IBM, Google
You may or may not have heard of Millward Brown, but you might not be surprised who they ranked as the world’s top brand: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) took the pole position in 2012. …
Top Jamaican Bank Coming Public on NYSE (NCJ)
National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited has filed for an initial public offering of its American depositary shares, or ADSs. The bank and some selling shareholders are both filing to sell shares in the deal.…
Assessing That Urban Outfitters Turnaround
Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN) is one retailer where the stall might be regaining some momentum. That is at least what the after-hours reaction has shown after the earnings report this evening contains some…
Banking on Dirty Harry
We have a tale of two gun stories today. Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is surging on news from the company that gun sales are running even stronger than expected. The gun…
Can Best Buy’s Earnings Report Even Matter? (BBY, RSH, AMZN)
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is set to report its earnings on Tuesday morning. The company has the earmarks of a value stock now that shares have sold off so much. The problem…
Wells Fargo Becomes Safest Bank In America, Book Values De Damned (JPM, WFC, BAC, C)
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has replaced J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) as the safest bank in America. This did not happen overnight and it is not just because of the…
Are Bank Guarantees Coming For Europe? (NBG, IRE, STD, BBVA, DB, BCS, UBS)
It is never a good thing to see a run on the banks. That is what the fears were recently indicating in Greece. The problem is that Spain is a much larger problem due…
Whose Earnings Will Be Worse? Dell vs. H-P (DELL, HPQ, AAPL, INTC, AMD, MSFT)
This week is going to be an earnings bonanza for investors who care about makers of personal computers. While Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is all of the rage, we have Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL)…
Some Added Hope For Dendreon
AuthorDendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) needs all the goods news it can get. While the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has its annual meeting in les than two weeks and while that is expected…
AMC Purchase By Wanda in China: Driving Up Value in Theater Values (CNK, RGC, CKEC)
There is one M&A transaction which is flying under the radar today and the reality is that shouldn’t get lost in the shuffle. Dalian Wanda Group out of China is acquiring the great U.S.…
Does DaVita Acquisition Make Warren Buffett Rethink His Kidney Dialysis Bet?
DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) is facing a bit of a drag on its announcement that it is spending some $4.4 billion to acquire HealthCare Partners. This is a transformative deal because DaVita is the…
Social Media Drag Down, Does Web 1.0 Rule? (GSVC, SVVC, SINA, LNKD, RENN, SOCL, YHOO, AOL, GOOG)
It is no shocker today that the social media shares are heading lower this morning. The Facebook shenanigans with its shares now down over 4% at $36.50 on almost 8 million shares is taking…