Secondaries, Secondaries, and more Secondaries!!! Companies must be nervous about the market and picking up capital when and where they can after a large move in the market. We are seeing many secondary offerings…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) Started as Buy at UBS. Cummins, Inc. (NYSE:…
If you want to know what happens to the credit ratings of large banks in lands of the PIIGS when the underlying country ratings have been cut over and over, you should know that…
courtesy of Pandora MediaPandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) was already getting a premium price after the underwriters lifted the price range once. Word had been out that another premium was coming after the range…
The pace at which the market trades stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures seems to have once again become faster than anyone could have ever imagined. Forget a few hundred automated trades a second impacting…
Glencore International (LSE: GLEN) was supposed to be a hot IPO in the world of commodities. It turned out that it caught a serious downward trend in the stock market, some commodity bubbles were…
Hardly a day goes by without another report from another government agency arguing that everybody’s doing it wrong and if only we’d take this agency’s advice, everything would get better. Yesterday was a bonus…
Our screen today is for companies with an attractive Returns on Equity (ROE) in the consumer goods sector. It is our view that ROE is one of the better quick indicators of a well-managed…
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is doing something that many investors might have considered more than difficult. Its shares are actually rallying after an earnings report. If you just read the headline data…
Solar equipment maker GT Solar International Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) has raised the forecast for its first fiscal quarter on the strength of more than $700 million in new orders. SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA), which…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has found itself as the king of the mortgage mess after it decided to acquire Countrywide. By acquiring the company’s corpse rather than trying to just buy the…
In times of uncertainty, most investors either go to bonds or go to defensive and dividend stocks. So, why on earth is Zacks featuring its “Top 5 Growth Mutual Funds” as its Best in…
Inflation is transitory… That is what you are told over and over by the likes of Ben Bernanke and friends at the Federal Reserve. The reading of wholesale inflation, measured by the Producer Price…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Boingo Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIFI) Started as Outperform at William Blair. Cabot Oil…
When yesterday’s news about a dividend hike surfaced from Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), our first thought was that the hike was too much at a time when natural gas is still somewhat less…
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) is currently halted after the close. The L.P. has filed plans with the SEC fot an underwritten public secondary offering of some 6,700,000 common units representing limited…
The ratings agencies and outside groups are now saying that Greece is in default, like it or not. Now let’s go ahead and throw in Irish banks as well, with a real possibility of…
An organization called the International Nickel Study Group is projecting a 60,000 metric ton surplus of nickel by the end of 2011, compared with a shortage of 30,000 metric tons at the end of…
Investors and economists vary on how much credence they are willing to give to any single survey. The excessive bearishness of last week’s AAII survey came as the Dow Jones Industrial Average was challenging…
Last week we noted that parity pricing for solar PV generation was approaching much more quickly than anticipated. Usually called “grid parity,” the term refers to the day when the unsubsidized cost of solar…