Whether you are a value investor, a bargain hunter, or a short seller looking for stocks with more vulnerability, chances are that your screening candidates and watch list stocks may have started from a…
The economic data has been atrocious from jobs to housing and now we are getting some earnings warnings as companies are realizing that they cannot stick by the guidance offered in July. Yet the…
The reading for the Chicago Business Barometer for August just hit the lows of 2010. The reading of 56.7 compares to a reading of 62.3 in July. Dow Jones had expectations of 57.6 projected,…
Active traders have many stocks to choose from this morning, but there are fewer stocks than normal which are trading way up or way down. The top stocks for active traders and day traders…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes this Tuesday morning: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) Raised to Outperform at BMO Capital. DG FastChannel, Inc.…
$100 billion… That is roughly the combined tally of August share buyback announcements and merger announcements. This may not be a record, but it has to be one of the most active months of…
Wind power is supposed to be one of the cleanest sources of power out there. Unfortunately, at least for now, it is not one of the most profitable sources of power. Deere & Company…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has almost certainly led to the downfall of the Blockbuster empire. Then Netflix (and Blockbuster) had to face competition from Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) over the Redbox video rentals at…
Cogent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COGT) is the newest of the M&A stocks in an environment where premiums and share prices are sometimes being taken for granted. 3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) offered to acquire the biometric…
Active traders and day traders have a decent slew of companies to choose from this late-August Monday. We are seeing large trading activity in shares of Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT), Cogent Inc. (NASDAQ:…
It’s a late-August Monday, so there are fewer analyst calls than normal. These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Agrium Inc.…
The Unusual Suspects was a tad shorter than most editions due to the time of year and due to lower news flows. We have no market-moving earnings this week. The latest edition of the…
Patent wars in technology are nothing new. Sometimes they are promising, sometimes they are just noise-making events. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing LLC has filed a complaint today in the U.S. District Court of the…
National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) may be one of the poster children for the troubled banking sector in the PIIGS, but the huge earnings decline is actually good news. When was the…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) warned, but here is the issue: THIS IS A ‘GOOD WARNING’ if you consider the news versus the current situation. First and foremost, it does not take a rocket scientist…
Fed-Head Ben Bernanke is trying to convey that the Federal Reserve can still take action if needed. He is trying to convey a message of more unconventional stimulus, an action path if deflation arises,…
Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) has hiked its dividend. While we saw a dividend hike earlier in the year, we had a few questions about its dividend coverage. It seems those questions are answered…
Despite it being a Friday in late-August, we are seeing several shares on the move this morning for active traders and day traders. Stocks on the move are Arc Sight, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARST), ImmunoGen…
It is a Friday in late-August, so the research calls are pretty thin. These are some of today’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen this morning: Church & Dwight Co. Inc. (NYSE: CHD)…
So far the 2010 hurricane season has left the United States unscathed. That may not be the case for long. Hurricane Danielle appears to be headed north in the Atlantic and is expected to…