The July 31st short interest reports for some of the big semiconductor makers are mixed, although the swings are quite large in most cases. We looked at eight stocks: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:…
The story of American business has been about shipping the country’s manufacturing jobs overseas. However, there is another part of the story. Every year, American companies hire thousands of highly skilled foreign…
A fresh report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which is representative of U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, showed that worldwide semiconductor sales posted a slight drop of 0.1% to…
wikicommons / SkimstaMany American companies have been lauded for their rapid rise to greatness, a process that sometimes takes less than a decade. These firms become leaders in their industries, are renowned…
Hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, who is chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, remains bullish on select equity investments. In a presentation at CNBC’s ‘Delivering Alpha’ conference this Wednesday, Mr. Cooperman’s take…
Wednesday is going to mark yet another important day for the early wave of key earnings for this earnings season. The second quarter became more challenging for many companies as we noted…
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…
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…
Friday has been a stellar day based upon reaction to the major bank earnings reports and due to reports that China’s GDP maintained a growth rate of 7.6%. What is amazing is…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Cut to Equal-weight at Barclays. Alliant Energy Corp. (NYSE: LNT)…
The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox web browser, today said that it would issue a smartphone operating system platform as the Firefox OS. The platform has been known until now…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning and stayed in losing territory all day as investors first figured out that the two-day Eurozone summit meeting would very likely end…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein. Apple Inc.…
Huntington Asset Advisors has announced the launch of an actively managed exchange-traded fund via Huntington Strategy Shares called the Huntington EcoLogical Strategy Shares ETF (HECO). This is the first of two ETFs the firm…
The three major US stock indexes opened slightly higher this morning following the data on new US unemployment benefits claims (more coverage here) and 10-year Spanish bond yields that topped 7% (more…
