Short sellers moved out of stocks that have fallen recently. Perhaps they believe there will be a large rally in the market. There is little else to make the shares of companies…
Alcoa (NYSE: AA) earnings bring markets lower. (Reuters) Senate defeats the Obama jobs bill. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) says a third party tried to sign into 93,000 PlayStation accounts. (Reuters) The Research…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Started as Outperform at Baird.…
Jon OggThis last week was a bad end to a bad quarter and the research calls were very mixed. We went through the numerous upgrades and downgrades to identify which calls were…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that it is going to miss its third quarter sales and income targets. The good…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Underperform at…
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at UBS.…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares remain fairly steady in support of new management. (Reuters) The Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner officially launches. (Reuters) The CEO of AIG (NYSE: AIG) talks with senior management…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is in a constant state of challenge. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is just too formidable of competitor. AMD has been without a CEO since Dirk Meyer…
Short sellers appear to believe that the gyrations in the market will, on balance, bring the indices down. And some stocks, they are willing to gamble, will fall significantly. Their bets on…
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is surging this morning after earnings, but we have a take that may differ from the initial market reaction so far. The news is good. The stock had…
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…
The trend among short sellers for the last two months is that they gamble against shares in the weakest public companies. Perhaps they sense that an economic downturn or U.S. debt default…
Most of the focus on tech earnings this season has been on the extraordinary gains of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and even older companies like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Intel…
