TrimTabs Previews Jobs Creation
TrimTabs Investment Research has released its March employment data showing that the United States added 187,000 jobs in March. This is above the 172,000 average of each of the prior three months, but it…
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Jon C. Ogg
A Financial Reality Check For Diamond Foods (DMND)
There is a good reality check today for anyone considering whether or not they should be committing capital to invest in Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND). The nuts and snacks company is consistently viewed…
SEC Moves Closer To Canadians To Regulate Financial Firms
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that its senior staff met last week with counterparts at the Ontario Securities Commission. The move aims to discuss ways to further strengthen cooperation regarding their supervision…
Bad News: SanDisk Guides Flash Pricing & Demand Lower (SNDK, MU, CODE)
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has just provided a “business update” which is actually nothing less than an earnings warning. With this being the leader in flash memory it is going to spill over into…
The Market Needs To Stop Expecting More QE!!!
The economy is eventually going to have to grow on its own from here without abnormal Federal Reserve methods of boosting the economy. Today’s negative reaction from the stock market based upon the notion that the…
FOMC Minutes Talk Up Modest Growth… Downplays QE3
The FOMC has released its minutes from the March 13, 2012 FOMC meeting discussing the developments in financial markets and the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. The forecast for 2013 and 2014 time tables has…
A Second Look at Trusting the SmartHeat Move (HEAT)
SmartHeat Inc. (NASDAQ: HEAT) is such a small company that you might wonder what to think of a 100% rally in the stock after reporting a loss. The company sells plate heat exchangers in the Peoples…
Pacific Biosciences Files to Raise Capital (PACB)
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) has just filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $150 million in a mixed securities shelf registration statement. The filing will allow…
At All-Time Lows… Can First Solar Manage To Avoid Death? (FSLR, TAN, PBW, SPWR, WFR)
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is the king of U.S. solar companies. Despite a monstrous rally in the stock market year-to-date, First Solar shares hit a new 52-week low today. In fact, if you look…
Cheering Sears, A Rare Eddie Lampert Media Outing (SHLD)
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) was trading lower on the day, but shares have now spiked up 2% to $68.05 on the day. The reason is rather unusual and it is likely being overlooked…
Factory Orders Showing Only Marginal Growth
The data on February Factory Orders has been released and the results are showing that orders were up 1.3% in the month. While not a bad number, Dow Jones had estimates expected to be…
Adjusting Retail Sales Expectations Mostly Higher (M, KSS, JWN, TJX, ROST, GPS, BKE, WTSLA)
The research firm Retail Metrics is out signaling better than expected retail sales should be the norm this week when companies report their March same-store sales figures. The report noted that February sales and…
Playing Down Chances of a Sirius-Liberty Takeover (SIRI, LMCA)
Sirius XMSIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) shares have been creeping higher in the last couple of days on hope that Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LMCA) will take the satellite radio giant over. The…
Solazyme Scores Brazilian JV With Bunge (SZYM, BG)
Solazyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: SZYM) is surging on news this morning that the renewable oil and bioproducts outfit has formed a joint venture with a unit of Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) to build, own and operate…
Astex Gets on the Map (ASTX)
Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTX) is the NASDAQ pre-market leader this morning on news that its subcutaneous SGI-110 interim phase I.II MDS and AML data demonstrated differentiated PK profile and good tolerability, as well…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, CCL, CLNE, DFS, ESRX, GNC, GG, GRPN, KGC, NFLX, NEM, PM, SLB, TKR, URBN)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started as Buy at Auriga; target raised to $715 at…
Opposition to PBM Merger Already Speaks Out! (ESRX, MHS)
The mega-PBM that is being created by the merger of Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS) and Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) is already being protested. Since the merger was announced, 24/7 Wall St.…
Stemline Therapeutics Files for IPO (STML)
Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. has just filed its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will allow it to conduct an initial public offering. The company will list is shares under the ticker “STML” on…
Wells Fargo Going After Super High Networth Clients (WFC, JPM, GS, NTRS)
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has now launched its Abbot Downing financial services that aims to serve the ultra-high net worth sector of wealthy Americans. The move will instantly look similar to efforts…
Despite Some Problems, This Is One Hot IPO Market (BNNY, MM, GRPN, GWRE, BCOV, DWRE, GRPN, RPAI, NRKM)
If you were not sure about the IPO market being hot, you better take note. PWC has issued its first quarter review and the market is hot. Last week had about ten offerings in the…