Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) are at two different ends of the spectrum in the semiconductor industry. Outside of being obvious leaders in their respective segments, they two have something…
Venoco Inc. (NYSE: VQ) is up big on news that the company has agreed to be acquired in a go-private transaction by its chief executive officer. This is said to be the second-largest land holder…
Sharps Compliance Corporation (NASDAQ: SMED) has been a great local growth story in Houston. If you have been to a doctor’s office of late, you may have noticed the company’s box on the wall in…
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR) has been a brutal stock holding in recent years. From potential merger candidate, to value stock, to down and out… Investors often do not like when headlines have the…
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) may be on its way back to that $90+ price target from the most bullish analyst out there. Or, maybe not. Time will tell. Today’s move in…
If you read Barron’s each weekend, you might think that mortgage insurers are about to die off. Actually, it would be those which are left standing to die off. Mortgage insurance is that pesky…
Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is close to nine-year highs and the company is outlining its expectations for the spin-off that has been in the works for some time. The company sees total earnings…
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released its monthly measurement from its comScore Video Metrix service showing that 182 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in December. What is amazing is that this…
We have already seen the first wave of bank earnings, but the rest of the week is full of bank and financial earnings. In fact, the real bank earnings season is all taking place…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is running higher this Tuesday after additional rumors that the floundering retailer is a going-private candidate. Shareholders of Sears have almost no real power in the company, so anything…
Most Americans know nothing of Polk when it comes to analyzing auto data. There is likely soon to be a booming new car industry in America if American’s begin to revert anywhere close to…
Telsa Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is getting a bounce after a horrible prior week due to an analyst defense of the stock. What is interesting is that one of the analysts is at a boutique…
Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) has announced a new methodology of predicting inflation. How well it works is anyone’s guess, but the international banking giant is launching the DB Market-Implied US Inflation Rate Index.…
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) earnings are a bit different this morning. Today looks like a prime example of “the good bank versus the bad bank.” Citigroup reported…
Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) is getting hammered this morning after one of its Costa cruise lines grounded and partially capsized, resulting in the loss of life and resulting in million and millions of dollars…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Tuesday morning. Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) Cut to Underperform at Credit Suisse.…
This shortened week is the first week full of many major companies reporting earnings season. We will have a clear direction for the financial leaders and many of the technology leaders after this week…
Standard & Poor’s managed to live up to the rumor mill’s expectations on this Friday the 13th. S&P has now formally downgraded several European nations’ sovereign credit ratings. France and Austria have both lost…
Splunk, Inc. is into software platforms to help companies and other organizations gain a real-time operational intelligence structure. It now has ambitions of becoming a public company. This was not one of our Top…
Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) is out with its new rig count data showing that there is a drop of rigs in the United States and a big gain in Canada. As far as…