ClearwireClearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) needs more capital. The company has just announced that its Clearwire Communications LLC operating subsidiary plans to raise over $1.1 billion in new capital. Clearwire noted that it intends to…
Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) managed to post a quarterly profit in its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report this morning. It sounds great on the headline for a homebuilder to be posting profits. The…
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) has a long history of operating in Russia. It is about to get much deeper into the country. This morning came the announcement that PepsiCo is going to acquire Wimm-Bill-Dann…
Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That’s ironic given how little he seems to care about ups and…
Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) became a very painful stock for many investors after the problems surfaced over its test results. While things have recovered substantially at the company, pressure has renewed on management now…
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has been releasing data at today’s investor conference, and the slow growth in the U.S. may be greatly overshadowed by the company’s aggressive expansion plans for China. For now, the…
The state of California has mandated that a third of its electricity come from renewable sources by the end of the decade. This has caused something of a boomlet in solar thermal and solar…
The Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is the latest of the industrial giants to raise its dividend. This morning, the machinery and equipment giant announced an increase on its quarterly payout by about 17%. …
The battering continues among for-profit colleges. Faced with federal rules changes that could affect their ability to secure student loans, the colleges have seen their stock prices tank in the past 12 months. The…
Regulators have hinted in the U.S. about the stage being set for a return to normalized dividends from major banks. If Canada is a model and if the Canadians act as a harbinger, dividend…
Canadian-based silver miner Pan American Silver Corp. (NASDAQ: PAAS) has released a report on its Navidad project in Argentina, providing details on a preliminary assessment of the project’s viability. The company primarily mines silver,…
It was back in January, nearly a year ago, after the Congressional Budget Office released its 2010 budget when we called for the U.S. to adopt a Deficit Manifesto. This called for lawmakers to…
JoS. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. (NASDAQ: JOSB) is perhaps the most controversial of all retail apparel companies for investors. Many have been against it after endless promotions and concerns over margins, yet the company…
These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. CME Group Inc.(NYSE: CME) Raised to…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) dismissed speculation, per CNN, that it is the big U.S. bank that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes magazine will be the website’s next target. OK! or OK?…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) is proving why it is one of the top ten stocks to own for the next decade. The company has authorized the repurchase of up to $1 billion…
Yesterday marked the launch of many new exchange traded funds, which are actually exchange traded notes, geared to offer more leverage and inverse leverage on several index classes for equity investors. Barclays Bank PLC…
Oil may still be above $80.00, but solar stocks are on skid row. The dollar/euro is heading the wrong way, new government uncertainty growing louder, and a concern over all major government subsidies being…
The market is entering a shaky period, but it is still way up for the year. As you usually see, many stocks are actually at new 52-week lows. Imagine how these would be doing…
Baldor Electric Co. (NYSE: BEZ) is a company most investors have either never heard of or that they decided to not care about. Many might even guess it is even in a different sector…