The markets are up over the last month, so companies are raising cash. The secondary offering floodgates are opening up. We have seen a wave of secondary offerings filed last night or this morning…
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) is already large, but its ties are about to get even larger. The company has announced that it and Luigi Lavazza S.p.A have entered into a $250…
Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) is trying to do whatever it can to get its shares back up. It compromised with the Saudis to get its BlackBerry workaround done to restart its service. …
A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) was supposed to be a hot IPO in the hot sector of lithium-ion batteries and systems. Unfortunately, the earnings reaction isn’t so hot. The revenue growth did not allow…
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) just followed trends seen at other media companies with better-than-expected earnings. Third quarter earnings rose 31% to $0.67 EPS from $0.51 in the same quarter in 2009. Revenues…
The House of Representatives just passed a $26 billion aid package to troubled state and local governments by a 247-to-161 vote. The last formality required for the checks to go out is a signature…
The ratings agencies may have missed all the blow-ups in mortgage ratings and financial ratings ahead of The Great Recession. But the upgrades for corporate debt ratings are still on the rise even as…
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) had the most active trading day in more than a decade on Monday with some 199 million shares traded by the 4:00 PM Closing bell. The drop from Mark Hurd’s…
Ben Bernanke and friends at the FOMC decided today to keep Fed Funds unchanged at 0.00% to 0.25% and decided against major quantitative easing measures. We already knew that was coming on the rate…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is trying to get even with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) via a new website in the never-ending “PC vs. Mac” war. There is just one problem. Well, more than just…
There may be some fears that Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has peaked or that its growth trajectory may not be as sustainable as it had been. A new deal announced today that sounds like…
There are many stocks on the move for day traders and active traders to pick from this Tuesday morning. We are watching the key moves in AgFeed Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEED), Ambac Financial Group,…
The Federal Open Market Committee begins its August meeting this morning and the official announcement should come within a few minutes of 2:15 PM EST. The market is looking for more help, via quantitative…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Allegheny Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ATI) Raised to Buy at BofA/Merrill Lynch. American Dairy Inc. (NYSE: ADY)…
TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD) is seeing a gain today after it announced a buyback plan of up to 30 million shares of common stock. When you consider its 576 million shares outstanding…
You have not heard as many arguments for the case of deflation gathering much more steam since commodities have gone back up in price. The only real nation with deflation on a currency-adjusted basis…
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has seen a strange trading pattern since its IPO first came to market in June. The quiet period has now ended and the analyst pool has begun coverage of…
Almost everyone in the world knows about Skype. After eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) sold off a majority stake to a private equity group, the company had been valued at roughly $2.75 billion. We have…
The top day trader and active trader alerts seen this Monday are not so much just on earnings as we have seen for the last month. There are still many stocks on the move…
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Cut to Market Perform at FBR. Biovail Inc. (NYSE: BVF) Cut to…