Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHN) has been on fire due to the rapid interest of hepatitis C treatments and the bidding of players in the sector. With Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) driving further interest because…
Health Management Associates Inc. (NYSE: HMA) is among the worst performers today. Shares of the company tanked on news that its general counsel Timothy Parry has suddenly resigned after a overbilling in Medicare lawsuit against…
Renewable Energy Group should help garner the IPO market interest for 2012 next week. Renaissance Capital has noted that this is going to be the first IPO to price this year, and that should…
The proposed NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) merger with Deutsche Bourse may be getting more scrutiny. The merger has been questionable from the start, even though the Department of Justice in the United States gave…
Personalized medicine is coming… if you can afford it. The quest for the $1,000 genomic map has been a race and it appears to be closer and closer. News is out from Life Technologies that…
As per a retraction or a correction, CNBC’s Phil LeBeau has just retracted (or corrected) his statement that Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is going to post a loss for the quarter. The report…
UPDATED BELOW Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is going to report a loss for the quarter. CNBC’s Phil LeBeau just announced that a presentation at a conference is telegraphing that the best financially sound…
Has J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) managed to help further turn banks around in 2012? The sector which had no friends in 2011 is now actually the top bill in the DJIA…
SKECHERS USA, Inc. (NYSE: SKX) has not been performing well as of late. It was just yesterday that firm B. Riley downgraded the stock to Neutral based upon weaker sales and promotions. Shares closed at…
It is not the norm when you get just about a whole segment of retail issuing earnings warnings all in one very short period of time. Some of these “warnings” sounded pretty good when…
Gabelli & Co. has a research note on Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) this morning which many DJIA stock investors will want to pay attention to after seeing that Home Depot shares are up…
MagicJack VocalTec Ltd. (NASDAQ: CALL) is featured by Zacks this morning as the momentum stock of the day with its chart analysis below. At issue is the recent growth news after it sold more than 365,000 of…
WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD) is in the penalty box no matter how you cut it. The company has a triple whammy this morning. On top of lowering its 2012 guidance, the company has announced…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Tuesday morning. Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) Reiterated Buy and raised price target to…
24/7 has compiled many of the predictions from various firms and various market pundits for what lies ahead in 2012. Wall St. modified analyst consensus price target methodology generates 12% expected upside to a…
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (NYSE: PHG) is feeling the woes of Europe catching up to it. It should probably be only a limited surprise that the European conglomerate issued an earnings warning when you have seen…
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) came clean with a slight warning after the close, but the news may be “good enough” if you consider how much some cuts have been elsewhere. The networking equipment company…
Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX) is managing a feat in the world of technology… it is raising guidance for its quarter. The company’s second quarter preliminary guidance puts revenues in a range of $127 to $128…
Liz Claiborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) may have hit 52-week highs today and may be a turnaround stock, but shares are getting hit over how it handled some news after the close about guidance and a key officer…
Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) has kicked off earnings season. Expectations were not very high about the fourth quarter and expecting any great guidance seemed a bit misplaced if you have watched the news flow…