We often cover companies raising dividends and announcing new stock buyback plans. We did see some dividend hikes this week, but there are also many unique dividend stories from this week which have flown…
The floodgates of secondary offerings are not quite as open as they were two weeks ago. Still, many secondary offerings are coming. Companies are raising cash and insiders are using strength to lock prices…
These are this Friday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks moving on news this morning. There is more detail on the moves on each over at VSInvestor.com: Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:…
Earlier this week, we noted Morningstar research on how to bet on winners during a coming flash memory shortage. But the shortages and rising prices are expanding beyond flash memory now. New data from…
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI) Cut to Sector Peform at CIBC. Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) Cut to…
It’s been a while since we covered Jim Cramer on CNBC’s MAD MONEY, probably for multiple reasons other than many of his shows seemed to be taped educational pieces. But tonight after the close,…
Today’s Retail Business Daily has a roundup of names in the retail sector that are responding to changes and news in the Industry. The market continues to improve for many top retailers. A combination…
Thursday’s edition of the BioHealth Business Daily has many common companies through the biotech and pharma sectors, as well as some widely unknown names. We are seeing news reactions in shares of Celgene Corporation…
In our daily stock and market rumors wrap up each morning, an interesting issue stood out this morning. Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC) may be in play. This is a continuation of other rumors about…
We are seeing many significant news moves this morning. Today’s top day trader and active trader alerts have links to the news on each stock over at VSInvestor.com along with color and relative trading…
These are this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Anheuser Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Started as Hold/$640 target…
Experian Hitwise sent out the monthly data on US search market shares for the month of March 2010. The Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) combined gains were marginal, although the…
The coal sector has been rocked in the past two weeks by deadly accidents at mines in China and the US. In China, 32 miners are still missing and 6 are dead, and in…
The US dollar and commodity prices are supposed to be inversely related, or so we saw during so much of the last 2009 gold rally. Quite simply, global commodity assets quoted in dollars cost…
There are more recognized stocks in today’s edition of the BioHealth Business Daily. We are seeing significant and unusual moves, or implications, in shares of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG), DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: DUSA),…
Have you been reading about flash memory shortages coming during the current consumer electronics boom? Whether or not this comes true this time is something that will be seen, but Morningstar’s John Ayling has…
These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen this Wednesday morning from Wall Street research calls: AGA Medical Holdings (NASDAQ: AGAM) Started as Outperform at Baird. Align Technology (NASDAQ: ALGN) Reiterated Buy (call…
Today’s wrap of the BioHealth Business Daily includes many less-covered stocks moving on news. We are seeing significant and unusual price changes in shares of Ardea Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDEA), Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
The newest FOMC Minutes from the March 16 meeting might be dovish compared to what the inflation hawks want to see, but the FOMC is coming to grips with future rate hikes. The bias…
Investors are going to get to see some very pleasant surprises on the same store sales data for the month of March 2010 from major retailers. The media will likely tout this as further…