Dollar Tree Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) and related peers find themselves in a far different class of dollar stores than 99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN). Dollar Tree announced this morning that it was heading…
Earnings season is about to kick off this week with three DJIA components and a slew of other influential sector-moving companies. The key reports we are watching first are CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX), Intel…
The world of biotech and biohealth is seeing a flurry of news today. This is bringing on many winners and losers in the sector. We are tracking the news and the moves in Alexza…
The Gymboree Corporation (NASDAQ: GYMB) has hardly been on the market for much time after shares had a great ten days or so on word that it was reviewing alternatives in hope of getting…
Bonds may be closed for Columbus Day, but the U.S. stock market is open and there are many movers to watch. Some of the most active stocks or largest moves seen in shares of…
Harbin Electric, Inc. (NASDAQ: HRBN) is going private, at least that is if the deal is accepted. The company has received a proposal letter from its Chairman and CEO, Mr. Tianfu Yang and Baring…
Bonds may be closed in observance of Columbus Day, but stocks are open for trading and there are analyst calls to watch. These are some of this Monday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations…
Earnings season is just getting underway and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 11,000 on Friday. There are many stocks to watch outside of earnings this week. The cast of characters in The Unusual…
Next week we have three key DJIA components reporting earnings, and many other market-moving and sector-moving companies are on deck as well. The DJIA components on deck with earnings will be Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:…
Le Gaga Holdings Ltd. has filed with the SEC to sell up to $100 million in ADR shares via an initial public offering. The company is a Chinese vegetable producer. The company plans to…
Yesterday we gave a straddle and strangle options trading volatility strategy for options traders to play around the unemployment report and around the notion of DJIA 11,000. The market just missed 11,000 yesterday morning.…
Earlier this week we wanted to look for some sort of implied value in shares of gold stocks that had either underperformed the sector and those which were actually at substantial discounts to their…
F5 Networks is losing more of those old buyout hopes. We noted at VSInvestor.com on October 4 that buyout rumors were driving the stock, but the problem is that it was approached more than…
This Friday was influenced by unemployment data and there are many stocks on the move. Some are earnings, some are not. We are tracking pre-market trading and volume spikes in shares of Adobe Systems…
The Labor Department is out with the latest round of bad news on unemployment and the change in non-Farm Payrolls data for September. September’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6%. Where this goes awry…
Maybe everyone is hanging on for the unemployment report, but this Friday morning there are many key influential analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) Raised…
Things are looking better and better for China as it is one of the key growth engines of the world. Moody’s Investor Service has placed the sovereign credit rating of “A1” on review for…
Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) has a brand crisis in the works. Yesterday it was no winner in the move for same store sales in September at a time when many retail chains blew past…
Micron Technology Inc. (NYSE: MU) has just reported its quarterly earnings for its quarter-end (Sept. 2, not Sept. 30) and the report was not great, but may be good enough considering how the stock…
Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA) may be a master at playing the earnings shell game. After expectations had been brought down so much, the DJIA’s first component to report earnings for Q3 gave earnings of…