Alkermes plc (NASDAQ: ALKS) has filed its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the resale covering the potential future sales by a subsidiary of Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN). The filing covers…
Tonight is the first look at the terms of the upcoming and highly anticipated Yelp Inc. initial public offering. Here is what we have from the SEC filing. Insiders include Bessemer ventures, Elevation Partners,…
CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is reportedly ready to go after the London Metal Exchange. Bloomberg has reported that multiple bidders have become interested because the exchange controls somewhere around 80% of the world’s trading…
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) may be proving that not all solar stocks are losers every single day, even if the sales figures were light. The solar player is one of the top after-hours performers…
Frontier Communications Corporation (NYSE: FTR) is paying a price for its earnings report decision. As the stock screened out with an unusually high double-digit dividend yield, it was one which could not likely be…
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) has reported its second quarter earnings and the headline summaries may have caused some confusion. The chip equipment giant reported $0.09 EPS, but this was really $0.18 EPS on…
IPO Fever has not really caught on in a major way yet in 2012. The Facebook halo-effect did bring a pop and private equity firms are still seeming to hold up. We already picked…
CVR Energy Inc. (NYSE: CVI) is up today on more news regarding Carl Icahn and his buyout or sale ambitions for this outfit. The billionaire corporate raider and financier has the company in his sights…
Car companies make most of their money on SUVs and crossover vehicles? What happens to those sales after gasoline rises and rises? It has been hard for many Americans to understand why with the…
The U.S. Treasury has released the auction results for its 30-year TIPs, its bonds which offer inflation-adjustments or at least adjustments based upon short-term rate swings. The auction for the current 0.75% coupon went…
It was just yesterday that we noted how dividend investors were preferring the growth shares of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. (NYSE: DPS) over larger rivals like The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) and Pepsico,…
Vonage Holdings Corporation (NYSE: VG) has reported earnings this week, while magicJack VocalTec, Ltd. (NASDAQ: CALL) has telegraphed that it will beat earnings when it reports next month. Both offer dirt cheap telecom services to…
If you want to know what is hurting Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and helping Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), it may be nothing more than continued chatter about an index rebalancing act by the NASDAQ…
Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) is trading lower after beating earnings estimates. The company’s adjusted earnings were $2.94 EPS versus Thomson Reuters estimates of $2.87 EPS. After beating earnings and with the problems in north…
The ‘deal’ on Greece has been pushed back yet again. The stance that Greece can try to renegotiate its deal down the road is a deal-breaker for the lenders, and the lender’s desire to…
The Philly Fed, the data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, is the Business Outlook Survey and the report is showing that regional manufacturing activity continued to expand in February. The overall…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) was set up as the chart of the day after the close on Wednesday. Thursday’s market weakness is not exactly cooperating but the unusual trading activity in Sears often…
If you think ratings agencies do not quite matter any longer, today may be a reminder that they can still create at least some nervousness even if they are just late to the party. …
The Labor Department is out with two market-moving reports. The weekly Jobless Claims came in at very impressive levels compared to the past and the Producer Price Index looks a bit mixed between the…
Many stocks are on the move this morning. Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) and NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) are the two pre-market leaders on percentage gains this Thursday morning on NASDAQ; and the companies with…