Groupon is supposed to be one of the 24/7 Wall Street Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011. That hasn’t changed, but our skepticism is growing at the same time that internet valuations for…
Jeff Bezos and friends have delivered the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) first quarter earnings figures for 2011. The online mega-store looks to be a very soft figure, which is puzzling when you consider what…
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) has turned in its first quarter earnings for 2011. The beverage giant said earnings rose to $1.9 billion, or $0.82 EPS… On an adjusted basis the earnings came to…
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is not exactly the first spot I think of when it comes to social networking. This is one of those deals which you might even consider a “Who would…
Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) is seeing its stock do what many investors a decade ago might have bet against. The stock is hitting what is an all-time high if you factor in the…
Groupon could be coming public but so far it feels as though it is “later rather than sooner.” While the WSJ is reporting that an IPO filing could be coming soon with a third…
Time for the Daily Dividend… Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) might have been up more today if the overall market was cooperating. The world’s largest consumer products company already has a $175 billion…
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) is tonight’s top after-hours mover on volume after the household goods retailer reported a blowout on its fourth-quarter earnings. This company just manages to keep on going…
Usually “RW” forms filed with the SEC are for obscure companies withdrawing their registration statements for an Initial Public Offering. A form RW has come from what many investors may consider to be an…
Things have been slowing down at Cree Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE). The promising field of light emitting diodes, or LEDs, has run into growth problems and oversupply. Cree also makes silicon carbide based diodes for…
Consumer Confidence from the Conference Board just took a huge hit in the month of March. Usually this would be cause for a huge concern because the drop is the largest for any single…
It is perhaps a truism that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That seems to be the thinking at Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK), once the giant in…
Wholesale inflation continues, but the supply side is having a hard time passing on the price increases if the Labor Department is right on its inflation data. The February Consumer Price Index data showed…
The next thing a smartphone will replace, if Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has its way, is your credit/debit card. The Wall Street Journal reports that the maker of the Android smartphone operating system is…
We have no inflation. It has to be that way since our Fed governors keep telling us that there is just no inflation or that it is only transitory. Sorry, but it seems that…