Longs Drug Stores Corporation (NYSE: LDG) is trading way up this morning after last night’s announcement that CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) will acquire the company. In a definitive agreement reached, Longs…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) will buy $1.5 billlion in assets from ABN. Reuters reports that Ford’s (F) new plans will not change because of the fall in gas prices. Reuters…
It is now no secret that we are in a very weak economic environment and if it is not an official recession it is for about 80% of the country. We’ve already…
There seemed to be more upgrades this morning than there were downgrades from Wall Street analysts. Here is a snapshot of some of our key analyst calls we saw: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:…
CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS) has announced that the company will buy back up to $2 Billion worth of common stock from time to time in the open markets during 2008 and…
Douglas A. McIntyre On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said emphatically that the huge drop today followed by the monster rally in the same day is a classic bottoming pattern, although he thinks…
Short interest on January 15 showed bets against financial shares listed on the NYSE climbed when compared to December 31 numbers. Shares short in Countrywide Financial (CFC) rose 32.5 million to 166.9…
2007 was one volatile year and for now it appears that will be the norm for at least the start of 2008. Everyone’s favorite market pundit or least liked pundit is obviously…
Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) is indicated to open lower after the company posted another net loss for the quarter. It also lowered guidance for a second time. We just noted this…
Douglas A. McIntyre Tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC was a different section than the normal stock picking. Jim Cramer wanted to cover execution of a business model (or business plan): Cramer’s first face-off was in…
Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD) is a turnaround story that frankly has never ceased being a turnaround story. Can you remember the mid to late 1990’s stock trading? One great stock in the drug…
The November 30 short interest of NYSE traded stocks shows that the market is predicting a further drop in financial and tech stocks. The numbers compare to November 15, 2007. The short…
It is always interesting seeing which groups and which stocks saw the biggest changes in short interest. This list doesn’t show financials because we’ve already shown that individually. Here are some of…
Below are key short interest statistics for July. The figures are as of July 13 compared to June 15, 2007 Largest Short Positions Company …
The NYSE released short interest in stocks traded on the exchange. The figures are as of June 15 and are compared to the comparable numbers at of May 15. Largest Shares Short…
