The 33 trapped Chilean miners are finally being rescued. Images on TV are showing elated miners being pulled up the deep mine shaft through a two-foot narrow hole via a rescue capsule. Layne Christensen…
Higher ethanol, potash demand, ag-super-mergers, surging food prices… and now an ETF crossing the $2 billion in assets mark. You have to ask if a bubble is being formed in agriculture. Today came news…
Another day, another forecast for crude oil demand. Yesterday, OPEC issued its monthly oil report forecasting demand of 85.59 million b/d for the full 2010 calendar year. The cartel also forecast that demand growth…
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) has been under pressure this morning on news that Kirk Kerkorian and the company were selling shares in a secondary offering. The secondary offering priced, and the deal terms…
It was just yesterday that Barclays joined in on the upgrading of targets for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) on earnings season with a call that it could become the most valuable company in the…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Some of the most active stocks or largest moves seen in…
These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Started as Outperform at…
SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) is getting on the debt refinance game. The company’s XM Satellite Radio subsidiary is offering up to $550 million of senior notes that will mature in 2018 via a…
Is it a jinx to say that a sector has risen too much? Sometimes, but the recent run up in solar shares ahead of earnings season is looking like many key names have much…
Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) is apparently neither immune to international currency issues nor to swings in the oil patch despite oil prices being higher year-over-year. The company has issued a slight earnings warning that…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has just reported its Q3-2010 earnings and given an outlook for what lies ahead for the tech sector. The processor and chip giant had already warned at the end of…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: (NASDAQ: DELL) is seeing some unusual activity ahead of its earnings report. Perhaps more interesting is what is causing the move. There are a couple of rumors that either Dell will…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is just about to be the second DJIA component to report its third quarter earnings for this earnings season. We have already gotten a warning from the chip and processor…
The most recent minutes from the FOMC are out and this shows us a bit more about how quantitative easing may work. The consensus is that monetary stimulus is appropriate if growth becomes too…
In yet another sign that the no one knows for sure what’s happening in the world oil market, OPEC has raised its estimate for demand growth for crude oil by 100,000 b/d to 1.1…
There doesn’t seem to be too much excitement among the technorati for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). The comments generally replay the “too little, too late” theme, while…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Some of the most active stocks or largest moves seen in shares…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is expanding its advanced solar products and services portfolio. The new solar thin film panel, system and inverter products are said to “enhance GE’s ability to provide a complete…
These are some of this Tuesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Electric Power Co., Inc. (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
It had been weeks that Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) was sitting on the pole position as the #1 stock chart in the Investors Business Daily 100. In fact, it had been #1 for so…