Looking for companies that are “cheap” is often a tricky situation when you just run the numbers. Cheap stocks are usually cheap for a reason, and that reason is either because fears…
Insider selling often does not usually offer any more insight than insider buying. But when you have a hot sector that is full of rumors about who the next storage, cloud, and…
The president of PAR, which owns 7.7% of the shares in Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTR), told The Wall Street Journal that his fund will vote against a Hertz offer to buy the…
Short sellers increased their positions in a number of telecom and tech stocks. Shares sold short in AT&T (NYSE: T) rose 14% to 58.2 million. The short interest in Verizon (NYSE: VZ)…
Reuters: The Chinese premier said he would not succumb to pressure from the US on the value of the yuan. Reuters: An SEC watchdog said the timing of the charges against Goldman…
Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Mac and iPad continue to dominate Window’s based PCs in surveys. The new ASCI study of customer satisfaction is no exception. “Apple continues its dominance, leading the PC…
Today’s corporate America is dominated by service companies, tech firms, and huge retailers which have thousands of locations and hundreds of thousands of workers. At the end of the decade following WWII,…
Reuters: Geithner will take the yuan issue to the G-20. Reuters: Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings beat Wall St. forecasts. Reuters: Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) numbers beat forecasts. Reuters: The dollar was…
You probably already know now that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has promised to pay a dividend of 1.5 to 2% initially for 2011. After a multi-year period of dead performance, this…
Reuters: Japan intervened to cap the yen for the first time in six years. Reuters: Business sentiment in Asia slipped for the third quarter period. Reuters: Gold remained near a record high.…
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has finally buckled to pressure to return capital to shareholders. While we did not get the promise of a one-time massive dividend we outlined as a possibility,…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will buy ArcSight (NASDAQ: ARST) for $1. 5 billion, according to several media sources. It is the second deal that HP has made this month. It took 3Par (NYSE: PAR) out…
Each morning we usually feature a handful of analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations that we think will have an impact on shares. Many of these are time-sensitive calls due to developments in…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL may be on target to sell 28 million iPads next year, which would almost certainly help lift its share price and would wreak havoc on the netbook fortresses like…
If corporations have high credit ratings, there is an opportunity to borrow for rates that have not been seen in years (or ever). August saw key bond issuances at extremely low rates…
