Groupon, Inc.(NASDAQ: GRPN) was the talk of the IPO world and the market was willing to overlook all of the concerns we had about the offering in early November. Now Groupon is a busted…
The new question of the week is whether or not Germany will get pulled down into the soup with the rest of Europe on the growing debt woes. A horrible bond auction on Wednesday in…
Most U.S. research analysts do not make research calls the day after Thanksgiving but these are a few analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. NYSE closes at…
Stocks are lower throughout Europe while U.S. Markets are closed and German, French, Italian, and Spanish bond yields have risen since Germany’s dismal bond auction on Wednesday indicate a spreading of the debt crisis to…
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) has gone from one of the great growth stories to a very troubled company in a very short period of time. From a prior walnut accounting probe over crop payments…
As had been reported on earlier over the last few days, there is a huge deal in private equity and the world of exploration and production in oil and gas. An investor group led…
Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) has just filed to raise up to $150 million in a mixed securities shelf offering. The diagnostics company could sell any combination of Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, and/or…
Weekly Jobless Claims were not changed enough to really matter this last week. The report showed a gain of 2,000 to 393,000 and the prior week was revised to -2,000 rather than the -5,000. …
The new proposed stress tests are just one more thorn in the side for the banking sector, but analysts from Dick Bove to Meredith Whitney, as well as value and bargain investors and short-selling hedge…
The Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving. That is a good thing today, because some 17,000 workers in Europe and elsewhere under the Nokia-Siemens Networks venture are going to be fired between now and 2013.…
These are some of Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Aetna, Inc. (NYSE: AET) named Bull of the Day at Zacks. Big Lots Inc. (NYSE: BIG) Cut…
Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) managed to beat estimates this morning due in part to U.S. strength. Net income was up 46% to $1.62 EPS (or $669.6 million) as sales rose 20% to $8.61…
A drop of 8% in GDP, 13% unemployment, and another period of interrupted access to the capital markets… Those are just some of the new Federal Reserve stress test scenarios which banks will have to…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is back with some dirt cheap offers in smartphones, and some of these may seem to be good to be true. While this may include Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ),…
Outside of those crazy inverse and negative-inverse ETFs, it is odd when you see non-M&A stocks hitting 52-week highs during a multi-day broad market sell-off. This is a time when investors are skittish over…
Cheniere Energy, Inc. (AMEX: LNG) is continuing the surge seen early on this morning after the LNG export facility builder signed a 20-year purchase pact with Gas Natural Fenosa, a large integrated gas and…
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) may have some fresh love on word that John Malone may be taking a larger stake in the satellite radio provider and on the launch of an Ozzy channel..…
Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ: CPST) filed with the SEC this morning with news that it has now removed a certain overhang of warrants on its stock. Unfortunately, these were above-market strike/exercise prices…. Capstone entered…
This may be a short and choppy week, but we have many bits of news for active traders and day traders this Tuesday morning. We have included news and given a summary of the…
The third quarter’s GDP was revised to 2.0% from a consensus estimate of 2.3% and versus a 2.5% preliminary report a month ago. The drop was on lower than expected business investment and consumer…