Some of the top earnings next week are Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB), Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL), TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO),…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has now shown its latest holdings as of the close on March December 31, 2010. These are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings, even though some may…
What happens when you have a huge rally and you still see many popular stocks not performing at all or hardly up at all on the broad market? Traders either chase the…
Reuters: Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) password operation was hit by cyberattacks. Reuters: A leading political party in Germany is urging that the nation not deal with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS). Reuters: …
The top five officers at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (NYSE: WMT) made $65 million in aggregate in the company’s fiscal year ending January 31. Shareholders did not do quite as well. Wal-Mart shares rose only…
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…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
By Jon Ogg Costco Wholesale (COST) reported earnings this morning the same day as BJ’s Wholesale (BJ). Even Big Lots (BIG) got in on the earnings game. Considering that we are in…
Costco (COST) has built its revenue over the years by selling quality goods for low prices. That is in contrast to Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) which have reputations for selling cheap products at a…
This coming week we have many key issues coming front and center in our list of “Unusual Suspects.” Some are ongoing issues with mergers and the waves of earnings reports seem to…
Earnings season has mostly wound down. We have many key business events and key economic events scheduled for next week. In asset sales and merger land, we will be paying close attention…
Short selling is seen for many reasons, but universally traders tend to track short selling to track the biggest changes in the short interest twice each month. Whether these are hedges, forward…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its holdings as of the close of business for December 31, 2009, so that being said these are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings going…
It is cause for worry when the world’s largest retailer cuts 11,200 people right after a rough holiday sales season. Wal-Mart will fire that many people at its Sam’s Club division. The…
CostCo’s (NASDAQ:COST) December numbers look like a strong sign that retail sales are recovering, at least in the affluent end of the warehould sales business. CostCo reported net sales of $8.26 billion for…
Douglas A. McIntyre 
