This weekend’s edition of the UNUSUAL SUSPECTS is an unusual list indeed. We have many big issues to watch for the coming week. Our cast of characters in the UNUSUAL SUSPECTS includes Apollo Group…
There are several big movers this morning for day traders and active traders that look for stocks with gap-ups or gap-downs. Stocks with news or events causing moves are ArcSight, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARST), BP…
These are some of this Friday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is known for its giving back, or at least Warren Buffett is. Each year Buffett auctions off a luncheon at Smith & Wollensky in New York for the winner…
Thor Industries, Inc. (NYSE: THO) is not a typical company we would cover for an earnings report. Today is no normal earnings report. The company did post rather impressive numbers, but that is not…
Betting on carbon capture has been hard to do, and it still may be a stretch for some investors who may have preferred to see smaller companies. Today came the announcement from the Department…
Despite earnings warnings and lower guidance throughout 2009, analysts and investors chased up the potash and agriculture names due to the various potash and agriculture companies talking up forward shipments and an eventual recovery. …
It is not often that you see industry predictions for a virtual doubling in spending, but that is what Gartner Research is forecasting for semiconductor capital equipment in 2010. If Gartner is correct, it…
There are many big movers today in the day trader and active trader alerts. Stocks on the move are ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH), A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ: APWR), Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
The weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department was roughly in-line with expectations as the rate came to an adjusted drop of 3,000 jobless claims to 456,000. The reading from a weak ago was…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning: AEGON NV (NYSE: AEG) Cut to Market Perform at KBW. Baker Hughes…
So much for a double-dip recession, or at least that is what the waves of new share buybacks and dividend hikes from big key companies are saying. In recent days we have watched more…
The Federal Reserve’s newest Beige Book comments are out. They were prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the cut-off date for information was May 28, 2010. In short, the Fed found…
It was during the most recent meltdown that we gave a list of companies where the stocks could still double, and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) was one of them. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square disclosed…
Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) was trying to have a good day yesterday, but it is one of those companies where almost all good news is met by more selling. The news yesterday…
There are many big movers today in the day trader and active trader alert categories, some on merger and some on earnings and guidance. Stocks on the move are Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), CIENA…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning: ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. Allscripts-Misys Healthcare…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) closed lower today along with many technology companies, but there is something rather interesting worth noting. This morning we covered a small esoteric convertible debt offering of $1.15 billion coming…
Sometimes little surprises are just as interesting as big ones. For example, Walgreen Co. (NYSE:WAG) has announced that it would not accept either new or renewal business from prescription drug plans administered by CVS…
A little over two weeks ago, we ran a list of “8 Big Companies With High E.U. Exposure” to see which companies had the most at risk due to the geographic ability of the…