ThinkstockWe recently wrote that shorting the Treasury bond market may very well be the next biggest short-sale trade since the subprime mortgage short. While rates have dipped a little in the past week…
ThinkstockInsider selling is starting to get massive before year-end when higher capital gains taxes will kick in. We continue to expect that corporate insiders, venture backers, private equity backers, and founders will…
thinkstockEver since that day in August when Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) got slammed with a $460 million loss due to a nasty trading program error, investors have been waiting for…
Almost 40% of young people aged 13 to 22 (so-called Generation Z) expect to receive an inheritance and thus do not need to save for retirement. At the same time, just 16%…
Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) has decided to bring on three new board members for oversight now that it has been bailed out. Let’s just call this more adult supervision. The market…
If you just read the E*Trade Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC) release about firing CEO Steven Freiberg, you missed the biggest point. Freiberg’s tenure highlights were a drop of 50% in the share…
Reports were out over the weekend that Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) was raising some $400 million in bailout and survival capital. The company confirmed this in an SEC filing on…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAfter watching its share price collapse following some nasty trading errors, Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) got a huge bounce this afternoon when TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.…
Paul Ausick If you were just looking at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) you might think that all was well on Wall St. after the bulge-bracket firm beat its earnings estimates. When you…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Advanced Micro Devices. Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Maintained Neutral and cut target to…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following report from China that it has cut inflation to an annualized rate of 2.2% in June (our coverage here). Lower inflation,…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday. AK Steel Holdings Corporation (NYSE: AKS) named Bear of the Day at…
Once people reach their 50s they finally see retirement on the horizon. They start envisioning that time when they can stop going to work and instead spend their days on the golf…
A rate cut in China prompts some economists to worry that May economic data will be weak. (Reuters) In the wake of its ratings downgrade by Fitch, Angela Merkel says that the…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) removed from Conviction Buy List at Evercore. Bank…
