Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) can use all the help it can get, and there is a rumor that the new Blackberry smartphones will run Android apps from Google Inc. (NASDAQ:…
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…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has been the subject of more rumors and more speculation than one could imagine. Most of the rumors and speculation feel like 2008 rather than 2011. …
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is the highest credit quality of the money center banks in America. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is not. Far from it. You have…
There is a rumor circulated on Wall St. that JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) will take over Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) within the week. The government will support the deal with a…
Billionaire and hedge fund manager John Paulson of Paulson & Co. and of Paulson Management is a widely followed equity hedge fund manager for whale watchers. He has made billions of dollars,…
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.…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), JP Morgan Chase…
The market has brutalized many great companies and we are seeing the mayhem reach a cycle-peak in the VIX if the history of the market holds up after hitting 48.0 yesterday during…
2.25 PM Comments from the Fed killed the rally, and the DJIA dropped into negative territory. The central bank will keep interest rates low through mid-2013, but it did not indicate any…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has rapidly turned into a runaway train. The latest suit from American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) for $10 billion for its massive mortgage fraud is…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for July 28, 2011. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
Congress and the White House have made little progress on the debt talks (Reuters) The U.S. has come perilously close to a cut of its debt to Aa (Reuters) Moody’s warned that…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) met earnings estimates this morning with its loss of -$0.90 EPS due to its multi-billion settlement announced at the end of June. The total loss is…
Screening for value in banks right now is probably a fools’ game. In fact, J.P Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) trades at close to 0.9-times book value and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:…
