Retail data becomes the focus of Wall St. (Reuters) China locates another 22 fake Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stores. (Reuters) The Nikkei drops below the important 9,000 mark. (Reuters) Brent drops below $108…
Short sellers moved into bank stocks ahead of the sell-off based on data for the period that ended July 29. Shares sold short in JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) rose 17% to 33.6 million.…
Short sellers must not agree with the conventional wisdom that high gas prices and unemployment will keep Americans out of stores and malls this summer. These investors decreased their negative bets against…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL) Started as Outperform at Credit Suisse.…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for May 30, 2011.These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) deal to drill in the Arctic dissolved as its venture with Rosneft faltered (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will release results early after a note from its CEO was…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), Penson Worldwide (NASDAQ: PNSN), Vermillion, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRML),…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is close to a purchase of Skype for $7 billion (WSJ) Microsoft is close to an $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype (Reuters) PIMCO increased its short position in…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Cut to Neutral at Susquehanna.…
Earnings season is slowing down as we have over 80% of the S&P 500 companies having reported earnings for the first quarter of 2011. We do still have key companies reporting earnings…
Short sellers seem to have ignored the strong earnings released recently by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). They have, for the most part, bet strongly that the stocks in many…
Short sellers who have bet against tech shares hit the exits during the period which ended on March 31. The short interest in the world’s largest chip company, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), dropped 3%…
NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) rejected a Nasdaq offer to buy it, which Nasdaq labeled as the best future for the older exchange. (Reuters) Corporate earnings may not be strong enough to support current stock…
There are ten major technology stocks that have outperformed Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) this year. Apple’s earnings will be announced shortly, and although some analysts are still raising earnings estimates and stock price…
There is sometimes a silver lining in any tragedy. After disasters, rebuilding takes place. Factory disruptions in one land can mean a boost in business in another land. That is the global…
