The death of Osama bin Laden raised US futures and the dollar and pushed crude oil lower. (Reuters) The US helped cut the amount of oil China imported from Iran to punish…
Jon OggThis last week marked another solid week for investors and many stocks were on the move. We have compiled a list of stocks we are looking for event-driven trading moves in…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. AGCO Corporation (NASDAQ: AGCO) Maintained Outperform as Bull of the Day at Zacks.…
Wall St. was disappointed by the sales of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows products as the world’s largest software company announced earnings for the quarter which ended March 31. Microsoft’s two enterprise software…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is about to get beyond the somewhat negative press of the Paul Allen behind it. The software giant reports today after the close. Thomson Reuters has estimates for…
The short sellers are showing some mixed convictions in many of NASDAQ’s high-priced shares that are favorites of traders. The settlement date of April 15, 2011 is compared to the March 31,…
Many experts believe the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates near zero until the end of the year (Reuters) Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) says Sokol deceived the company and may have violated…
NokiaNew Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop received a signing bonus of 5 million euros to join the struggling handset company. His base salary is 1.1 million euro. The new chief executive…
The breach of the Sony PlayStation Network which exposed private records of up to 77 million customers is only one in a long line of failures which have occurred since Sir Howard…
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will buy Synthes for $21.9 billion (Reuters) S&P cut the Japan sovereign rating outlook because of the earthquake (Reuters) The Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation network was hacked…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) had some impressive growth numbers on the surface. The problem is that Wall Street and investors look ahead, and the devil is always in the details. We have…
A review of data from the damaged Southwest Air (NYSE: LUV) 737 raised questions about Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) manufacturing process. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) has begun to market a tablet PC. (Reuters)…
Updated throughout the day. Supply problems will hurt sales of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPads (Reuters) Production problems at Boeing (NYSE: BA) caused trouble in its 737 planes (ABC) GM (NYSE: GM) will…
The NYSE (NYSE: NYX) said an M&A deal with Deutsche Boerse would offer greater savings than a NASDAQ (NYSE: NDAQ) deal. (Reuters) Silver rose 5% on the dollar’s weakness. (Reuters) The housing…
The largest companies in the US based on the number of workers worldwide are not necessarily the biggest in terms of revenue, profits or business locations. Some are much more efficient than…
