Benihana Inc. (NASDAQ: BNHN) is soon able to see some rather large selling from a key shareholder. While no shares have to be sold and while no commitment to sell shares has been made, this…
ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: ANX) is trading lower after a filing from Thursday evening allowing the small company to raise capital. Yahoo! Finance shows a market cap of only $18 million, but the SEC filing…
Canaccord Genuity has decided to maintain its positive position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR). The firm’s analyst Scott Van Winkle has maintained a Buy rating and a $94.00 target despite the move…
Market participants now have the awaited data from the U.S. Labor Department on February unemployment and payrolls. The official unemployment rate came in at 8.3%. The target from Bloomberg and other sources on the…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Cut to Market Perform at BMO. Cabela’s, Inc. (NYSE: CAB)…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has now finalized its pact with GlobalFoundries which gets rid of its 9% stake in the foundry. The value of about $278 million will ultimately result in charges…
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) was soft for most of Thursday on fears that Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) was going to develop the single-serve model beyond the deal that Green Mountain has…
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) has given its mid-quarter update and the results are somewhat of a disappointment. The company now sees guidance at a decline of 7% to 9% sequentially rather than the preliminary guidance…
Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is down and out, it is losing money, and many investors question its long-term viability. So what gives when you see a 7% gain in the share price? Wells…
Economic uncertainty, higher food costs, and higher labor costs… Those are not usually supposed to be a worry for the likes of McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD). After all, it has proven to be the…
Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGMO) has ticked higher on its report demonstrating that new clinical data is demonstrating persistent positive effects of ZFN Therapeutic as a functional cure of HIV/AIDS. While the term ‘Cure” is…
The international markets are on pins and needles awaiting the outcome of the debt swap in Greece. Some reports have the total coming in well over 70% participation, but there has supposedly been a…
Whether or not the Greek debt deal is finally (finally, finally) reached, the next big question outside if Greece will default again is what exactly the implications are for the Credit Default Swap market. …
D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE: DHI) rarely makes a splash on the most active option contracts. So when you see a contract volume of 70,186 contracts traded in the April 2012 $14.00 Put options it…
NeurogesX, Inc. (NASDAQ: NGSX) is seeing shares plunge after the Food & Drug Administration issued a complete response letter denying approval for the company’s Qutenza patch to assist with HIV-related pain symptoms. Fierce Biotech noted,…
Mueller Water Products, Inc. (NYSE: MWA) is seeing its shares surge on news that it will sell its U.S. pipe business to private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital for almost $90 million plus a reimbursement…
The next wave of stress tests on the U.S banks is due in the coming week. While many of the banks have reportedly been asking regulators to be less transparent, there are some banks which…
One day, all of the bad news coming from the solar sector will be priced in. That day is not yet here as both JinkoSolar Holding Co. (NYSE: JKS) and Suntech Power Holdings Co., LTD…
Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) may be losing its favor as the prostate cancer drug of choice. That is at least what the stock reaction is signaling today. A late-stage study from Johnson & Johnson…
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, maker of the famed Fender guitar, is soon going to be a public company. The maker of musical instruments filed its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an…