Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Amerisafe, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSF) named Bear of the Day at…
The 30-Year Treasury auction, the so-called Long Bond, had a strong participation for what is technically a 29-year and 11-month bond. The participation rate was strong enough that this still shows a…
Carol Bartz resigns from Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board. (Reuters) Lagarde disputes reports of an IMF study that shows a $372 billion capital shortfall among Europe’s banks. (Reuters) Bank of America’s (NYSE: BAC)…
The month of August was hard on US solar makers. Evergreen Solar closed its doors a few weeks ago, followed by privately held and Intel Corp.-supported (NASDAQ: INTC) SpectraWatt, Inc. a few…
Steve Jobs’s transition from CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to chairman has caused a great deal of ink to be spilt on the departure of other famous CEOs, such as Walt Disney,…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is in a constant state of challenge. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is just too formidable of competitor. AMD has been without a CEO since Dirk Meyer…
Short sellers appear to believe that the gyrations in the market will, on balance, bring the indices down. And some stocks, they are willing to gamble, will fall significantly. Their bets on…
The sell-off and market volatility have made it difficult for many nervous investors to either stand pat or even to stay interested in the market when they are more interested in vacations,…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is due with earnings after the closing bell today. The problem is that there was a Bloomberg report that said that HP is set to spin-off its PC…
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is surging this morning after earnings, but we have a take that may differ from the initial market reaction so far. The news is good. The stock had…
We could be in for a bout of deja vu all over again. Last May, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) announced a new microprocessor and a new trademark — Ultrabook — to carry…
Risk in Europe continues to drag on global shares. (Reuters) Concerns about how S&P (NYSE: MHP) sets rating bring calls for reform. (Reuters) Rules on CME (NASDAQ: CME) margins move gold lower.…
Short sellers moved into bank stocks ahead of the sell-off based on data for the period that ended July 29. Shares sold short in JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) rose 17% to 33.6 million.…
The trend among short sellers for the last two months is that they gamble against shares in the weakest public companies. Perhaps they sense that an economic downturn or U.S. debt default…
Most of the focus on tech earnings this season has been on the extraordinary gains of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and even older companies like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Intel…
