Equities had a hard time deciding whether to follow a bull or a bear on Thursday. Retail sales were mixed, but weekly jobless claims rose unexpectedly and the fears are that the weekly jobless…
Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: OPWV) has been long forgotten by most investors who invested in and around technology strangleholds in mobile and online communications. The company is exploring options for its messaging and mediation units…
Reality is setting in at Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK). Whether it can milk money out of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and host of other ‘patent infringers’ or not and whether it shrinks its…
Europe is driving even the Indian IT workers to complain. Infosys Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY), one of the largest Information technology outfits in the world (located in India), is seeing its shares chopped down hard…
Fertilizer stocks are on skid row after the U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed that the unsold corn supplies from December were down about 1% less than what analysts were expecting. Like it or…
CA Inc. (NYSE: CA) is winning today but not on news of its own doing. The often ignored information technology outfit is trading higher on news that hedge fund Taconic Capital Advisors LP has…
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) is not getting much attention on news that it is planning to hire more than 70,000 workers for the spring season of 2012. While many outfits are calling…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is about to report earnings Friday morning as the first bank and second DJIA component kicking off earnings season. We wanted to make a preview on Jamie…
Argus has made quite a few changes to its model portfolio for 2012 after the first week of trading this year. The company has broken these out in equity income, growth and income, and…
The US Labor Department’s reading on weekly jobless claims rose by 24,000 to 399,000 and there was a revised higher figure. The prior week’s 373,000 was revised higher to 375,000. Some of the claims…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Reiterated Buy with $60 target at…
Credit Suisse has issued a list of surprises for 2012 this morning and the headline is one which is very bullish on the surface. The firm believes that volatility in 2012 should rise (with…
Is it 1999 again? There is a stock split announcement from Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ: MNST). The company’s board of directors approved a stock split, on a 2-f0r-1 basis, for its common stock. The…
LINN Energy, LLC (NASDAQ: LINE) is going to be ultra-active on Thursday after the news broke after the close on Wednesday. The company announced that it plans a public secondary offering of 17,000,000 units…
Telling a group of workers that they get no more money in any manner, particularly if they came on to help fix things after a company’s problems surfaced, is often a challenging task. Apparently…
When you see mine problems from miners of just about anything have a severe issue at a mine outside of a wage dispute, investors usually get worried that the problem may be an integrated…
When it was announced that Glen Senk was leaving Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN) as Chief Executive Officer and as a board member after some 18 years, it was simply explained as “to pursue another opportunity.” Glen…
Jamba, Inc. (NASDAQ: JMBA) is one of the best performing NASDAQ stocks in 2011. It is also one of the few established brands out there in food services that is not matured as a…
The Beige Book released is bit more upbeat than prior reports had indicated, albeit on a very modest basis. The data was all collected before December 30, 2012 and was prepared by the San…
The proposed merger between Express Scripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) and Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS) has seen its shares of watchdogs point out that the deal will not be a good one for…