The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following some lackluster data on the US economy. The Empire State manufacturing data improved, but retail sales posted an unexpected decline (our…
Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up about 8% in the early afternoon on the company’s announcement that it has now installed another 100 megawatts of solar panels at its…
NBC News, a division of Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), has acquired total ownership of the company’s jointly owned MSNBC.com website from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Microsoft and NBC, formerly owned by General…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Monday. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC): Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse. Anheuser-Busch…
The Farnborough Air Show near London ends today, and both Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (OTC: EADSY), makers of the Airbus family of planes, will tout…
Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) announced another big order for its 737 MAX aircraft. The airplane leasing division of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has ordered 75 of the 737 MAX 8 aircraft…
Forget about your Fourth of July time off! Earnings season is starting this week and it is the tough summer trends that investors have to worry about. While many businesses have held…
Friday’s gains are currently history and investors better be paying close attention to the daily buy/sell pivots if they are staying in the market over the coming Fourth of July week. We are tracking…
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is exhibiting a pattern which might not have seemed possible at the start of June. If the 2% gain to $20.60 holds up this Friday, GE will…
Can the markets rise two days in a row anymore? That is what we are looking for in the daily charts review. We are tracking the daily buy/sell pivot points on the SPDR…
24/7 Wall St. has been expecting this highly anticipated Moody’s downgrade of the large banks and investment banks for weeks. It appears that the wait is over as the downgrade is set…
Shares of nuclear waste disposal company Energy Solutions Inc. (NYSE: ES) are getting pummeled today following the announcement that the company has appointed a new CEO and that the company has lowered…
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…
Moody’s has telegraphed a banking sector review for quite some time, and it has actually been ongoing and the ‘bad news’ should be out very soon. We skipped many of the smaller…
China’s PMI indicates a considerable slowing of its economy. (Reuters) Senior EC and ECB officials warn that the eurozone is on the brink of a calamity. (Reuters) Problems at Research In Motion (NASDAQ:…
