The chase for advertising dollars just waiting to be harvested from all those smartphones is just getting starting. Of an estimated $500 billion in annual global ad spending, only about $2.7 billion is going…
Forget about Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) winning from its new efforts in digital downloads for a moment. Take a look at its credit rating from the credit ratings agency. Standard & Poor’s just upgraded…
Uranium processor USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) reported earnings this morning and offered some partial guidance for 2011. The company’s fourth-quarter diluted EPS came to $0.05 on revenue $666.4 million, compared with expectations of EPS…
If you think that $97 for crude in West Texas Intermediate or $110 per barrel for Brent Sea crude is getting too high, what would you say about a call for the old super-spike…
Arbitrage trading and spread trading is not without risks. Just ask those who decided in late-January that Brent Crude was widening out too much compared to historic spreads against West Texas Intermediate crude. That…
While the courts and the Congress continue to fight over the health-care reform law, known as the Affordable Care Act or ACA, insurers are looking forward to as many as 16 million new customers…
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is one of the many companies which have filed their annual reports under form 10-K with the SEC in recent days. These reports often contain many hidden data points…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. American…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is starting to show more cracks in its story against the world of bundled GPS and personal navigation services in smartphones. The GPS leader turned in quarterly results that showed…
Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has just reported its first real quarter earnings report under the new CEO Leo Apotheker. The PC, server, and IT giant reported earnings of $1.36 adjusted EPS and $32.3…
If there is one industry which reacts immediately to higher oil prices and to global unrest, it is the airline sector. These are technically not new risks but these two issues are hitting the…
Force Majeure is perhaps one of the least favored aspects of corporate law. In short, Force Majeure is that odd exception that suddenly gives a supplier or a customer a pass on its contractual…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is among many of the established companies which has filed its annual report or 10-K with the SEC. These reports are almost always long and boring and unfortunately go unread…
Jon OggThe Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) both reported earnings this morning. Both also gave two very different reads on the economy and the implications may be in…
It’s hardly news any more when Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) sells off more assets. This time is a little different, though, because of the buyer. BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) has agreed to…
Another week, another North African country on fire. As you would expect, many large American and European companies do business in these nations. Libya has followed turmoil in Egypt and Bahrain and we wanted…
The leading online music streaming service in Europe, Spotify, is reportedly in line to get an injection of $100 million in venture funding as it seeks to launch its service in the US. If…
For a while there in 2010, investors didn’t show much love for the solar stocks. But that changed almost overnight since January 1st. SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) shares are up about 40% since the…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Calpine Corp. (NYSE: CPN) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX) …
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently joined the waves and waves of public companies which filed their 10-K annual reports with the SEC. We often dig through these and other reports to find tidbits that…