Jon OggShort sellers are selectively making very mixed short selling activities in the high-priced market leaders. Some are seeing gains, others are seeing lower short selling. We tracked the moves for the February 28,…
The weekly jobless claims from the US Labor Department did rise in the last week. The good news is that there was not a 400,000 handle on the data. The bad news: the might…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Reiterated Buy and Raised target to $40 at…
ThinkstockStarbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) did end up signing a pact with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR). The move was obvious to some, but will be shocking to others. Starbucks has been in…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is beginning to in some ways feel like the lost leader… a silver-back gorilla with poor eyesight if you will. The company has incredibly high gross margins and has…
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is almost surprisingly trading higher after its earnings report. The surprise is that shares were already up 300% from last year’s IPO and it already even had a secondary offering…
The upcoming HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA) IPO is turning out to be better than what we had expected. The 124 million shares have been expected to price between $27 and $30 per share…
The exchange-traded product of the United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (NYSE: UNG) has been controversial. Most active investors thought the exchange-traded product was basically buying exposure to natural gas price moves. Time has…
Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) has just recovered from a year that could have sunk lesser companies. Mere survival, though, is not Toyota’s goal. The company’s president and grandson of Toyota’s founder, Akio Toyoda,…
A new IPO filing has been made by a company called Fusion-io, Inc. Terms have not been made public other than that the funds to be raised are up to $150 million. The company’s…
coutesy of Exxon Mobile Corp.At a presentation to analysts today, Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) said it plans to invest about $34 billion in “high-quality” projects in 2011, and that spending through 2015 would…
Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHSI) is not as well known in American healthcare as it is about to be. The pharmacy benefit management company has just signed a pact to acquire the PBM…
Investors love dividends and other methods companies use to return capital to shareholders. Still, dividends are the easiest for shareholders to gauge because it translates to direct capital recognition. Some of the key dividend…
From the ashes of a terrible 2009, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. NV, or EADS, (OTC: EADSY) posted a fourth-quarter and full-year profit for 2010 on the strength of sales of its…
After failing to pull the trigger on two buyout offers, Dynegy Corp. (NYSE: DYN) stated in its 10-K filing yesterday that it still has plenty of problems: “Our accompanying consolidated financial statements have been…
Yesterday’s Facebook slap on Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is one which has already gone with some supporting the drop and others refuting it. It seemed a bit harsh if you look at the immediate…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Cheniere Energy Partners LP. (AMEX: CQP) Raised to Hold at Citigroup. Dynegy Inc.…
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) had been resurrected in the world of fiber optics equipment. The company’s third quarter revenue met estimates last night but its fourth quarter guidance was light. When you had shares…
It was just two years ago today that the U.S. markets reached an absolute bottom. Investors were reeling and the public was literally getting ready for a breakdown of the system. After bailouts, after…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is performing rather well when you consider that the bank’s dividend is not likely to rise as fast as some of the more healthy banks. The banking giant…