Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) has just given its second quarter update, one of the first seen by major chip companies. The chip giant sees $2.3 billion to $2.5 billion in revenues,…
We have seen many semiconductor and circuit calls this morning with upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street analysts. Here are some of these upgrades and downgrades: Altera (ALTR) Cut to Underweight at…
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen early this Tuesday morning with about two hours until the market opens Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) Started as Buy at Deutsche…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen on Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: Intercontinental Hotels Group plc (IHG) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Marvell…
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: MRVL) just got to pile on in the tech earnings warning carnage. The communications chip provider slashed its revenue projections in the quarter to $500 million to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Osiris Therapeutics (OSIR) started the day with a big surge. More details. Animal Health (AHII) may be one of the worst performing stocks today. Financial giant CIT (CIT) may have one of…
Washington Mutual (WM) Shut down by feds. Drops to $.148 from 52-week high of $26.47. Smithfield Foods (SFD) Credit concerns. Sells down to $13.95 from 52-week high of $32.26. Sun (JAVA) Company…
There was a very mixed bag in short selling in the semiconductor sector. What was interesting was the huge increase in the bets against NVIDIA because it was so far after the…
These are some of the top early bird analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing this Monday morning with more than two hours to the open: Ctrip.com (CTRP) Started as Outperform…
These are the top downgrades and negative analyst calls we are seeing this Thursday morning: Kelly Services (KELYA) Cut to Sell at Citigroup. KLA-Tencor (KLAC) Cut to Equal-weight at Morgan Stanley. Lam…
VSInvestor has several volume trading alerts today. Thornburg Mortgage (TMA), a highly risky mortgage company stock is up sharply. Several chip firms lead by Marvell Technology (MRVL) are down on negative brokerage…
These are some of the top analyst calls we are seeing this Tuesday morning: Comverge (COMV) started as Buy at Jefferies. Salesforce.com (CRM) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. Visa (V) started as…
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Friday morning: ADC Telecom (NASDAQ: ADCT) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. AnnTaylor (NYSE: ANN) raised to Outperform at FBR. Ashland…
Short sellers moved out of Microsoft (MSFT) based on data as of May 15 compared with numbers on April 20. Short interest in the software company fell by 25 million shares to…
It looks like the SEC is getting more focused in its options backdating probes, although it is going after some companies more than others. Frankly, it’s about time to wrap this up…
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