VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is on fire again. It was just on Friday that we said that stock options pricing was indicating a $24 breakeven price in April and $28 in June. Amazingly after…
Speculators and options traders are keeping their bearish stance against First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR). We have seen two analyst downgrades in recent days and now the PUT option volume is surging ahead of…
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is a company that has lost much of a formerly great reputation. Warren Buffett even admitted that today. In an on and off 3-hour interview earlier this Monday on…
The holy grail of baseball card collecting (or investing) is still up for grabs. A graded T206 Honus Wagner, now over 100 years old, is up for sale by Memory Lane, Inc. in its…
Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) is lower so far on Monday on news that its Costa Cruises line may not be anywhere close to recovering from its ship accident woes off the coast of Italy. …
Verifone Systems, Inc. (NYSE: PAY) is down this morning at the open, but it has recently screened out as a break-out candidate if its price holds firm and ticks up in the next few days. …
Crude-oil futures are trading lower so far this Monday morning. There is becoming a fear that higher oil prices could damage the global economic recovery. Today’s move may just be proof that higher and…
Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is out with earnings and it is not going to be easy to tally for the quarter on an apples-to-apples basis. Net income in the fourth quarter of 2011 was…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is set to report earnings on Tuesday. After one analyst downgrade late last week, now we have another First Solar analyst downgrade that is part of a sector call. …
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Campus Communities Inc. (NYSE: ACC) Raised to Buy at Argus. American Electric Power (NYSE:…
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A) have invested in banks on and off, and the public filings show that Berkshire is a larger and larger stake holder in Wells Fargo & Co.…
The annual letter for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is out and the discussion immediately jumps in about who will succeed Warren Buffett, book value, buybacks, and the portfolio. Berkshire Hathaway’s book value per…
Jon OggEach weekend we review the many analyst calls we track during the week. Some turn out to be very insightful and some turn out to be not so great. For better or worse,…
Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) is out with its weekly rig counts and the headline data is a bit on the negative. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -13 at 1981, Canada -4 at 701… The…
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is seeing some continued interest after Thursday’s massive run higher. We have seen shares trade 16 million shares to be up 12% at $20.95 and the high today was $21.19. …
Earnings season is mostly behind us, but we do have some sector-moving earnings next week. For Monday, the top earnings are from Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR), Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN), Lowe’s Companies, Inc.…
We have two IPOs which have come out of the gate with some strength today. One is a prototype design firm for manufacturing and design and one is a social media metrics company. PROTO…
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is rarely among the most active of option series at the CBOE each day. A low price and low probability option trade was seen today that really stands out. The half-hour…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading back above the 13,000 mark. The DJIA (NYSE: DIA) i sup 0.22% at $129.87 to reflect the slight discount due to fees in the ETF. The NASDAQ…
The University of Michigan Sentiment reading for the end of February has come in hotter than expected. This adjusted report came in at 75.3 and that is well above the 73.0 expected by the…