The short sellers ran for cover in the actively traded high priced market leaders at the end of November. With only a few exceptions of our “high-priced leaders,” almost all of these…
Updated throughout the day. MasterCard (NYSE: MA) will buy Travelex (Reuters) Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will sharply cut management pay (WSJ) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) did not complete a buy-out of Groupon due…
Seventeen billionaires including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz have agreed to pledge most of their money to charity. (www.thegivingpledge.org) (Reuters) WikiLeaks supporters shut down the MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE V)…
The US government has broadened it probe of insider trading. (Reuters) The euro will not last more than a few years, according to Jim Rogers. (Reuters) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are…
It’s probably an overstatement to say that we have now gotten our first look at the long-awaited Nexus S smartphone from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The new phone, introduced a mobile device…
Reuters: Obama’s deal with Congress will extend Bush tax cuts for two years. Reuters: The US will sell its remaining shares in Citigroup (NYSE: C) and will make a $12 billion profit.…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (also called The Dow, Dow 30 and the DJIA) is what most Americans think of as the “stock market.” The widely followed benchmark of 30 American stocks,…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) may break itself into pieces in preparation for a potential merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ YHOO). (Reuters) Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told “60 Minutes” that the central…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has an extreme dominance when it comes to the market share of processors inside of personal computers, generally referred to as about 80% depending upon your source and…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) dismissed speculation, per CNN, that it is the big U.S. bank that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes magazine will be the website’s next target. OK!…
When Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently signed a contract with Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) to store and deliver streaming video, the stage was set for the next round in the…
Following on its observations that tablet devices and smartphones would hurt PC sales, Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) has lowered its forecast for worldwide PC sales for this year. The IT research company …
Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the most insight. …
Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof. Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as a result,…
Reuters: SAP will pay Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) $1.3 billion for copyright infringement. Reuters: The FBI sent warnings to a number of more hedge funds. Reuters: The euro fell to two month lows…
