The Lamest Headline of the Day: YRC Worldwide
YRC Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: YRCW) gets the dubious honor of having The Lamest Headline of the Day! This one looks as though it was brought to you right from the Department of Who Frigging’ Cares. To…
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Chesapeake Discloses CEO Well Participation Dollar Amounts… Huge!
SEC filings are often long and full of details that make most investors have a glassing-over look in their eyes. Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) has filed its proxy materials for its annual meeting and…
A Call For Jamie Dimon To Resign
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has done some severe damage to its image as the best risk manager of the large banks, and this damage may easily carry over into all of…
LegalZoom Discloses Finances In IPO Filing
LegalZoom.com, Inc. (NYSE: LGZ) has now publicly filed its registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its proposed initial public offering. The company offers online services such as corporate filings for small…
GSV Hammers Holders With Another Stock Offering
GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) is taking it on the chin this morning because the company has sold another secondary offering of common shares so that it can go out and buy more portfolio…
One Analyst Signals Caution and Cuts Estimates On Apple (AAPL, T, VZ, S)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have pulled back but this is still the darling of America. Most analysts have stepped all over themselves to raise their estimates and their price targets all the way…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADTN, AAPL, ARNA, T, BEAM, BBBY, BBY, BWLD, CVX, HEK, JPM, MYGN, PRA, RSH, RXN, RIMM, SLF, TXRH, VZ)
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday. Adtran Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Reiterated Buy and $39 target at Argus. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Maintained…
PPI Shows No Evidence of Inflation
The Labor Department is out with the wholesale inflation data or the Producer Price Index for April. Inflation was at bay with a reading of -0.2% on the headline data for April, but this…
Can A European Approval of Pixantrone Save Cell Therapeutics? (CTIC)
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTIC) is about as controversial of a biotech stock as there can be. It often traded huge volume around drug approval or study news, and shares rose after being halted…
Lions Gate Insiders From Summit Cleared To Sell (LGF)
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: LGF) may have enjoyed a serious rally tied to The Hunger Games sensation, but the company has just filed to allow securities holders from a private placement in early…
Solid 30-Year Treasury Auction… Only 3.09%
The last of this week’s Treasury bond auctions went off rather well. This was the Treasury auctioning off $16 billion in long bonds, or the 30-Year Treasury Bonds. The yield went off at 3.09%…
Taking An Early Look at 2012 ASCO Biotech/Cancer Stocks (DNDN, LLY, ARIA, ARRY, BVTI, ABPI, CLDX, CYTR, GALE, EXEL, GNBT, GHDX, IMGN, NKTR, NLNK, PCYC, SGEN)
It is now getting close to the middle of May, and that means one thing for biotech investors. The king of biotech and pharma events is about to take place. The 2012 annual meeting…
Key Short Interest Changes in Cult Stocks & Controversial Stocks (ALU, STD, BAC, BKS, DNDN, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, GRPN, HGSI, LNKD, NFLX, RSH, RIMM, SIRI)
Jon OggThe short interest data is out using the April 30 settlement date. We have seen some drastic changes from the April 13 settlement date in many issues, followed by some surprises where the…
MetroPCS Holders Cheering The Wrong Merger… It’s Time to Revisit The Past (PCS, S, LEAP, T)
MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) had a stellar Wednesday on rumors and talk that Deutsche Telekom may be wanting to roll the no-contract and prepaid wireless outfit into its T-Mobile operations. What is interesting is…
Monster… A Tale of Earnings Clouded By M&A Dreams (MNST, KO, PEP)
Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ: MNST) is looking like a monster all on its own after earnings this morning. The specialty energy drink maker is seeing shares rise in the double-digit percentages after this company…
Weekly Jobless Claims Bring No Real Unemployment Help
The U.S. Labor Department has turned in its weekly jobless claims data and the report is pretty much in-line with expectations but is still not indicative of any great jobs recovery right now. Weekly…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARMH, BIG, CHKM, CSCO, CPWM, DLB, HGSI, JDSU, LINE, MMM, NOV, ORCL, RGP, TPX, TLLP, TEVA, VRTX)
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) Raised to Market Perform at Bernstein. Big Lots Inc. (NYSE:…
Bonds Sound Recession Warning, Of Sorts (TLT, JNK, AMJ, XLF, FAS)
Jon OggSo, just two weeks ago it looked as though “Sell in May and go away!” was not going to be as strong of a theme in 2012 compared to 2011 and to 2010. …
Full 360-Degree Cisco Earnings Preview (CSCO, JNPR, ALU, ORCL, INTC, HPQ)
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday. We have already signaled that Cisco could hold the key to how technology shares are received for…
Nelson Peltz Joins Warren Buffett With Ingersoll-Rand (IR, BRK-A, BRK-B)
Ingersoll-Rand Plc (NYSE: IR) is often overlooked as a key company despite a nearly $13 billion market value. The news is out that Nelson Peltz has taken a 7.1% stake in the company via his Trian Fund…