Some Senators said they would pass a currency bill to punish China on the value of the yuan just as the People’s Republic president Hu Jintao visits Obama. (Reuters) Citigroup (NYSE: C)…
The short sellers keep running for cover as the bull market continues. In the actively traded high-priced market leaders, the trend continues for less and less short selling and many of these…
It’s already 2011 and we have our outlook pieces for the year for sectors and indexes. While most of our pieces are examining upside going into what is expected to be a…
The short sellers ran for cover yet again when it comes to the actively traded high-priced market leaders. There was hardly an exception. December 15 settlement date for the short interest was…
President Obama will host a meeting for a number of large company CEOs in Washington this week. The heads of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and PepsiCo (NYSE:…
The short sellers ran for cover in the actively traded high priced market leaders at the end of November. With only a few exceptions of our “high-priced leaders,” almost all of these…
How many ways are there to cause a company’s share price to fall -15%? PC maker Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and storage provider Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: CML) may have found a…
It appears that the talk about China’s Bright Food Group Co. wanting to buy US nutritional retailer GNC Holdings Inc. is about to prove true. The Wall Street Journal is citing “people…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) may break itself into pieces in preparation for a potential merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ YHOO). (Reuters) Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told “60 Minutes” that the central…
Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the most insight. …
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is one of the potential acquisition targets as I.T. and communications equipments giants look to consolidate their storage, networking, and data center offerings under one company. …
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is out with earnings and the IT and PC giant reported $1.33 EPS on $33.28 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $1.27 EPS on revenue of…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reports earnings this afternoon, after the market closes. Non-GAAP EPS is expected to be $1.27 on revenue of $32.75 billion. That’s substantially better than the EPS of $1.08…
Updated throughout the day. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will begin to make chips for start-ups (NYT) IBM (NYSE: IBM) has made an offer for Fortinet (Bloomberg) Bard Capital Markets Europe will buy Nigel…
China’s PMI grew much faster than expected. (Reuters) China will not slow rare earth shipments. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sued Motorola (NYSE: MOT) over six patents. (Reuters) New search engine Bleeko will…
