VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is in the news this morning after entering into an agreements with a select group of institutional investors to sell 6,889,098 shares of its common stock. Rather than this being…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) Reiterated Buy as Value at Zacks; Cut to…
The sell-off and market volatility have made it difficult for many nervous investors to either stand pat or even to stay interested in the market when they are more interested in vacations, getting ready…
If there is one thing that we have been wondering about time after time, it is this: WHEN WILL SPRINT SELL THE IPHONE??? Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is reportedly set to begin selling…
What has become good news for Florida and its neighboring states has become what looks like bad news for much of the northern and central parts of the Eastern Seaboard. Hurricane Irene is now…
Back in February, Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) acquired two bankrupt satellite communications companies, TerreStar Network Corp. and DBSD North America, Inc., for $1.375 and about $1 billion respectively. At the time there was…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is the highest credit quality of the money center banks in America. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is not. Far from it. You have seen the…
The economy is still slowing. Retail spending is spotty. Housing is still in the toilet. Unemployment remains at the nosebleed level. And unease about leadership is near an all-time high. So ask yourself this…
There is a trend happening about gambling in Asia, and it no longer just involves Asian businessmen flying to Las Vegas. This is about Macau, and the pure-play for Macau is Melco Crown Entertainment…
A federal judge has ruled that music locker service MP3tunes has, in fact, infringed on the copyrights owned by music companies by allowing users to use a program to locate music on the web…
VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is still the essentially unchallenged king of virtualization. History dictates that when the king taxes the population too egregiously that bad things start to happen. This may be a lesson…
In 2007 a Russian submarine planted a flag on the sea floor underneath the North Pole, and the country claimed the North Pole as Russian territory. Now Denmark/Greenland is preparing its own claim. Five…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR)…
You have already seen how gold has gone through the roof almost daily to higher highs. The world of print money is dying compared to the hard asset of gold. What is amazing is…
S&P Equity Research came out with a controversial downgrade of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) last week. The equity research outfit cut the rating to “Sell” based upon the new outlook for the combination of…
Two of the world’s largest car makers have announced a development project that could lead to a gasoline/electric hybrid drive train for light trucks and SUVs by the end of the decade. Ford Motor…
There is an old rule of thumb from biotech investors and traders… SELL FDA APPROVALS. This is very counter-intuitive on the surface but we wanted to explain in more detail why this is the…
After weeks of bad news have sent solar stocks further and further into a dark pit, a couple of earnings reports from Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) and Yingli Green Energy Holding…
To say that Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has undergone some winds of change would be the understatement of the year. One analyst has come out in defense of H-P. Auriga now sees opportunity in…
Shares in home improvement store Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) were trading higher by around 3% in the pre-market this morning on news that the company will initiate a $5 billion stock repurchase plan.…