Jon OggDividend investors have two new vehicles to go out and earn monthly or quarterly income from equities. There is also an Asia/Pacific angle and emerging market angle to these. BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is launching…
Bazaarvoice, Inc. (NASDAQ: BV) is set for a strong IPO based on its pricing. The social commerce solutions provider helps its clients capture, display and analyze online word of mouth buzz. The company’s initial…
Proto Labs Inc. (NYSE: PRLB) has priced its initial public offering of 4.3 million shares of common stock at $16.00 per share. Investors should consider this as one of the stronger pricings because the…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is trading higher by double-digits after last night’s earnings. The CRM and enterprise software player reported fourth quarter results of $0.43 EPS on $632 million in sales; expectations from Thomson Reuters…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray. AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (NYSE: AVB)…
Leapfrog Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: LF) has made it as the chart review of the day with more expected upside ahead on top of recent gains. In candlestick charting, this is based on the The…
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has some news out that may sound too good to be true on the surface. The company’s executive board has prepared the company’s 2011 consolidated financial statements. More importantly, it…
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) traded today as though it blew away earnings or scored a huge contract win if you looked at the share price gains on the stock and did not look…
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is gaining after its earnings report. The US rare earth leader (or monopoly for now) reported a profit as its volumes and average selling prices rose in the quarter. Earnings…
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) may be coming back into favor with investors. If its shares can mange to rise after a solid earnings, it might even be hated less by the public…
Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) may have moved into new aspects of apparel of late, but that is not helping the company on its earnings report. The maker of the world’s ugliest shoes (except for…
Yelp Inc. is out trying to convince investors that it has upside in its IPO roadshow. We are within a couple of weeks of the IPO and Co-Founder & CEO Jeremy Stoppelman is telling…
When the President is talking about the high societal cost of rising oil prices yet simultaneously in the same speech is bashing the thought of more drilling for oil, it has to leave more than…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has held its shareholder meeting. All Apple directors were reelected to the board of directors. Executive compensation passed and two proposals on conflicts of interest and on political action were…
The government is in debt up to its eyeballs, but there is currently an insatiable appetite for U.S. Treasury debt. At least that was the case in today’s 7-year Treasury auction. The 19.3% direct…
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is not worth recovering the great news for the company in Qnexa treating obesity. Shares have at one point doubled earlier today. Just because an FDA panel recommends drug approval it…
National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG) is supposed to be a beneficiary of the Greek debt settlement, at least of some sort. How this plays out with losses in Greek bonds at the…
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is literally killing short sellers this morning after scoring an FDA panel backing with the recommendation to approve Qnexa as a treatment against obesity. This will likely be an instant blockbuster…
SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC. (NASDAQ: SGMO) has filed to raise capital. The company filed with the SEC on Wednesday night to raise up to $100 million with the sale of any combination of the following securities:…
The U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims were unchanged after a revision higher the week before. That puts the claims for the last week at 351,000 and the…