Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) wants to follow Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), Dell (NADSAQ:DELL) and hundreds of other large American companies into China. It is the promised land for consumer spending. The middle class in…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) had already given its guidance for today’s earnings two weeks ago when it announced the surprise acquisition of 3Com Corp. (NASDAQ: COMS). But that doesn’t keep traders from…
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alerts early this Friday morning. We have links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more data and analysis on each:…
Reuters: The Senate is near its first vote on healthcare. Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is betting on corporate spending for its recovery. Reuters: Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) AOL showed that the worst is not…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) reported earnings of $0.17 EPS as a headline, but the clean number is $0.23 EPS on a non-GAAP basis and $12.9 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is set to report earnings after the closing bell today. Thomson Reuters has estimates pegged at $0.28 EPS and $13.18 billion in revenues. For the coming quarter those…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Senate Democrats unveiled their healthcare plan. Reuters: Hedge fund manage Griffin has rebounded from losses. Reuters: GM must pay its debt and become profitable before an IPO. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is…
These are this Monday morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have a link through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more detailed analysis and data. Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE:…
These are the top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls early this Monday: Cadence Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CADX) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. Coach Inc.…
Sony (NYSE:SNE) expects its holiday sales to be poor. That is terrible news for the consumer electronics and PC industries. Sony is a nearly perfect proxy for those sectors. It sells PCs, video games,…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.30 AM EST: PALM (NASDAQ:PALM) shares are up on speculation that Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) or Nokia (NYSE:NOK) will buy the faltering handset firm (VSInvestor) Former Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS)…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will have too many retail stores at some point. It will face the “Starbucks problem” of over-building. Starbucks once boasted that it would eventually have 40,000 coffee shops worldwide. It…
You have already seen the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) buyout of 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS). But this week before that deal was announced we covered how mergers in the technology sector have been…
Short sellers have bought into the notion that the financial industry is in full recovery. Shares sold short in Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) fell 8% to 78.8 million shares. Shares short in CIT…
The recovery is on and mergers are happening, yet the technology sector has been slow to make deals. Despite some deals already having taken place from the technology giants and that $260…
