Earnings season is supposed to be over. Guess again. This coming week is going to feel like the earnings floodgates are open and the companies reporting have market-moving and sector-moving abilities. Monday…
Nokia was badly hurt by poor earnings and rumors of a takeovers. CVS suffered from a report by Fox Business the organized crime has hurt retail margins. EMC division RSA suffers major…
If you still believe that speculators cannot really drive markets up too far in any direction, take a look at the commodities market. The continuous raising of margins in silver has taken…
AAA Daily Fuel Gauge: Regular $3.985. The ripple effects from the sharp rise in gas prices have grown tremendously in the last week as regular gas has risen from $3.886 seven days…
Are investors forgetting the lessons of the dot-com bust of the 1990s?It would seem to be the case. Just like in the Clinton administration, companies with uncertain prospects are attracting insanely high…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre FedEx (NYSE: FDX) profits will probably be higher but hurt by gas prices. (Reuters) Lehman Bros has set November 17 as the date to get approval of its bankruptcy plan. (Reuters) Problems…
Earnings season is over for the most part. Next week we will have a few key earnings from a few players. While none are likely market-moving events, these can still influence sectors…
Ben Bernanke may indicate to Congress that the recovery is tentative and that the $600 billion QE2 program is still necessary. (Reuters) Future US auto sales may be undermined by high gas…
24/7 Wall St. has decided to investigate where inflation has the greatest potential to damage the economy. There is plenty of ground to cover. It is clear that the cost of agricultural…
Wall St sold down shares of FedEx (NYSE: FDX) after the company slashed its guidance for the third quarter. The company blamed bad weather and higher fuel prices. It did not say…
Douglas A. McIntyre Deutsche Borse and the New York Stock Exchange are near a merger arrangement, but political issues are still a problem (Reuters) Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) and Green Mountain are close to a strategic…
Corporation are now sitting on billions and billions of dollars in their corporate treasuries. They are keeping their share prices higher by returning capital to shareholders. Most are certainly not hiring large…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO) Cut to Underperform at Wells Fargo. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:…
We are now about as far away from ‘earnings season’ as one can get but that does not mean there are not some market-moving and sector-moving stocks due with earnings. Most earnings…
