Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) has seen a flurry of volume today after the New York Times reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives showed up at Adobe’s corporate…
Everyone has either grown to hate credit now, or miss it because it has been taken away. The Federal Reserve just gave a report for the month of August which shows that credit to…
Crude oil has been on fire and prices were as low as $74 per barrel less than 3 weeks ago before recent highs of $84.00. Generally a rise in the commodity price garners a…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was all set to see an 11,000 print this morning. After the strongest September gains in most of our lives, the psychological level would have been a nice a…
We already knew that September was not going to be as cautious in retail sales compared to some of the summer months. What was not known was that some of the gains were actually…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking moves in Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), BioFuel Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: BIOF),…
Looking for companies that are “cheap” is often a tricky situation when you just run the numbers. Cheap stocks are usually cheap for a reason, and that reason is either because fears have allowed…
The Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims and we saw a drop at -11,000 to 445,000, although the figures from a week ago were revised slightly higher to 456,000 from…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley. ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML)…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has raised its guidance, of a sort. While the company did not give financial guidance it did raise its Megawatt order expectations. The lack of actual finance guidance is…
Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) is neither a company nor a stock that is without controversy. It has a lot of fans who have been buying shares before and after it became a…
Giving a discount on goods as a reward for opening up a credit account is not exactly a new trick by retailers. That is what Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) is offering up. It’s a…
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) may finally be getting the iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The Wall Street Journal is flashing headlines without much detail and we would not that these rumors have…
Exchange traded funds cover almost every strategy that the retail investor can imagine. If you can’t find an ETF, there may be a futures contract out there to trade an instrument. As if the…
When I interviewed General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Immelt at the company’s annual meeting in Houston earlier this year, there were two key things that stood out on top of the recovery…
Shares in JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) are up more than 5% this morning on news that the company has signed a contract with the solar division of BP plc (NYSE: BP)…
As wind farms get built closer to where people live, the downsides to the massive installations get a lot more attention. Well, at least from nearby residents, who discover that the giant blades and…
The International Monetary Fund is out taking the wind out of the sails of growth. Not just in the United States. Elsewhere too. The good news is that this is still a move farther…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this morning. We are tracking moves in The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE), Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB), BioFuel Energy Corp. (NASDAQ:…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI) Started as Neutral at Sterne Agee. ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML) Cut…