Nordic American Tankers Limited (NYSE: NAT) is often considered one of the better-run tanker players out there. For shareholders who bought shares in the last few days that might not feel like the case…
If you have been following the world of video games, social media, smartphones, and the new tablet computing craze, chances are high that you have run across Angry Birds. If you follow the world of…
The Labor Department has just released its data on retail inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index. This was the December 2011 level and the figure came to +0.1% on the headline CPI and…
The Labor Department is out with data on the weekly jobless claims. While the week was ahead of a three-day weekend, the report showed that weekly jobless claims fell by a whopping 52,000 down…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Cut to Hold at Needham Research. Advance…
If you haven’t refinanced your home mortgage in the last three years and you can qualify for a refinance, it is time (again). Bankrate has issued its mortgage rate and the rates are just…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was already the best performing DJIA stock with gains of more than 20% since the end fo 2011. Now it has even more legs after the troubled money-center…
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) is a stock that Jim Cramer prefers for the mobile chip growth in smartphones over QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCM). The growth in millions (or billions) of additional smart devices is part of…
BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE: BKU) is going to be under some pressure on Thursday. The bank had only re-emerged as a public entity last year and last week came rumors that BankUnited may be the subject…
Semiconductor investors have had to endure a lot of pain and a lot of volatility, but things may be on the mend. Analog chip players were higher throughout the trading day after Linear Technology…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is out with earnings for its fourth quarter. The online auction giant (and PayPal winner) turned in earnings of $0.60 EPS on sales of growth of 35% to $3.4 billion.…
The news that the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is being rejected again by the White House is a victory for some, but it is a mystery to many. Forget…
We have just seen a filing for an initial public offering from a company called USA Synthetic Fuel Corporation. Technically this is a move from the Pink Sheets to the NASDAQ if it comes…
Just what a beaten down company needs… a class action lawsuit. When you have a boom to bust story like Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX). would you honestly expect there not to be any class…
Peak Resorts Inc. was supposed to be the next ski resort set for an initial public offering. This was not one of our 2012 Top 17 IPOs to Watch but it might have been…
The logic from technical traders is simple: “Stocks hitting new highs tend to keep hitting new highs.” Eventually that comes to an end, sometimes a painful end. Until that end arrives it sure gives…
OK, so this has nothing to do with the world of high finance nor Wall Street other than the notion that you are probably a one-percenter if have purchased one of these… The CPSC recall…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), the second of the DJIA components in banking, is due to report its fourth quarter and 2011 year-end earnings on Thursday morning. The bank is currently the most…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is set to report earnings after the close today. Despite international acquisitions and despite management changes, eBay for the most part remains a domestic story for auctions as far as…
Jon OggAgilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is often forgotten about by investors now, but the company operates in more than 100 nations and employs more than 18,000 workers. The company is into chemical analysis,…