Earnings season is slowing down as we have over 80% of the S&P 500 companies having reported earnings for the first quarter of 2011. We do still have key companies reporting earnings…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) has trumped Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE: VRX) after it agreed to acquire Cephalon Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH) in a $6.8 billion deal. The merger will give the mostly-generic Teva…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Cephalon, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH), Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), Echostar (NASDAQ: SATS), Teva Pharmaceuticals…
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CBST) is going to be back in favor now that it has settled a key patent case against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (NASDAQ: TEVA). The company announced that it…
Jon C. Ogg What’s Israel’s secret to success? Being at the right place at the right time. The Jewish state’s success is all the more remarkable considering its lack of natural resources such as oil…
Earnings season is actually close to winding down for the December quarter. We still have many late reports coming out for the December quarter and year-end. We have identified 11 of the…
Share repurchase programs, or stock buybacks, have been and may always be a more questionable method of returning capital to shareholders than dividends. Many even disagree with the effect of buybacks. Still,…
There is a long-standing debate over the effect and impact of share buyback plans. What is not up for debate is that many companies have given big updates or announced new buyback…
There have always been questions about whether stock buybacks are an effective return of cash to shareholders. The theory is a simple one: reducing the number of shares outstanding boosts the price…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ: AGNC), ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML), Lululemon…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) is proving why it is one of the top ten stocks to own for the next decade. The company has authorized the repurchase of up to…
Jon C. Ogg Picking stocks for a decade is no easy task. It might as well be for a lifetime because there probably will be two more bear markets and two more bull markets between…
Biotech and BioHealth stocks are on the move today and there is more news in the emerging sector than there has been on a single day in months and months. The news…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU)…
There are several key stocks to watch this coming week in The Unusual Suspects. We are watching for moves and events in the stocks of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Ameristar Casinos Inc.…
