Today’s look at the goings-on in alternative energy includes a significant investment, a possible shift in China’s energy policy, another look at wind power, some budget hits to alternative energy, and a new study…
Time for the Daily Dividend… Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) might have been up more today if the overall market was cooperating. The world’s largest consumer products company already has a $175 billion…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is admitting failure in at least part of the consumer operations side of its business. Cisco announced plans to “exit aspects of its consumer businesses and realign the remaining consumer…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Started as Overweight at Barclays; Cut to Hold at…
If you have been following the merger trends in utilities, this secondary offering may be of little surprise. PP&L Corporation (NYSE: PPL) priced its offerings of common stock and equity units and the offering…
The short sellers are showing very mixed convictions currently in many of NASDAQ’s high-priced shares. The March 31, 2011 settlement date is compared to the March 15 settlements date here and we have added…
Safe Bulkers, Inc. (NYSE: SB) is raising cash. The shipping player in dry bulk transport services plans to offer 5 million common shares of its common stock. Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch are the…
It is hard to call the market weak right now even if today was a mixed day. We have seen a meteoric rise from the bottom. So what happens when you see companies hitting…
Earnings season is officially underway. Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) usually has a little something of everything for bulls and bears alike in its earnings reports. Today is no different because the aluminum giant beat…
Biotech is becoming the ever-shrinking stock sector. It is almost weekly now that a new biotech acquisition is announced. Big Pharma in the United States and large drugmakers internationally are all interested in acquiring the next latest…
Today’s alternative energy watch looks at a new effort to increase domestic use of ethanol and a report from the UK on the efficiency of wind generation. A bill called the “Biofuels Market Expansion…
Internet acquisitions have been few and far between of late when it comes to public companies. Answers.com Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) may still be worth more… Or it may not. The question is whether the…
It’s not likely that earnings and revenues for The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) took too great a hit from the nuclear disaster in Japan, but what happens for the rest of this year…
We have been featuring many REITs for their high dividends on our daily “Dividend Watch” pieces. One sector which has not been tabulated and screened is the ability to make dividend payments off of the…
We have many stocks on the move this morning. Our top pre-market movers for active traders and day traders alike are Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL), Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS), Royal Bank of Scotland Group…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) Reiterated Hold at Argus. Carefusion Corporation (NYSE: CFN) Cut to Neutral…
We have recently begun filtering out value stocks in a sector by sector screen ahead of earnings season. This latest batch is a commodities value screen, and we identified three clear value picks in…
The world of M&A often takes strange turns. This morning comes news of a merger of two cult stocks in the communications world between two companies that have never really been able to regain their…
Next week is supposed to mark the launch of earnings season. It will still be a tad light compared the two weeks that follow, but there are some market-movers and some sector-movers to watch in…
Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. This Friday brings gold and silver, corn prices on the rise, and even a positive read on aluminum. Commodities markets…