ThinkstockAs Fat Tuesday quickly turns into Ash Wednesday, Lent will take place from Wednesday, February 13 to Saturday, March 30 in 2013. It may not seem like much on the surface, but…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning before bouncing into positive territory briefly and then turning south again. As happened yesterday, the focus was on Europe, where Italy’s oldest bank was expected…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe stock market is down Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.26%, the Nasdaq down 0.35% and the S&P 500 down 0.22%. Today’s winners include a…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMany stocks are on the move, and almost of the key movers have been on corporate earnings report except for one. We have blown through some of the…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and maintained their upward momentum for essentially the whole day. Lacking any really bad news from Asia or Europe, U.S. markets shrugged off a weaker…
courtesy GameStop Corp.Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) has stubbed its toe yet again. Late in 2012 the video game publisher announced that its release of the Grand Theft Auto 5 would…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Align Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN) cut to Underperform as Bear of the…
courtesy of DellShort sellers pressed into tech and Internet stocks during the period that ended November 15, a gamble that consumer spending on and business investment in electronics products and IT are…
ThinkstockInsiders are using the recent market sell-off to purchase weak shares, at least that is the case for these stocks. Insiders can sell shares for a multitude of reasons. But when they buy…
courtesy GameStop Corp.Is it possible that the video game sector is finally making a comeback? Are all the silly little virtual farm animal games from the likes of Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA)…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on softness in Asian markets and another punt in the eurozone. In Asia, China is rumored to be ready to expand its property tax program,…
ThinkstockCarl Icahn is still around, in his seventies and several decades into his place as a famous takeover artist, although he sometimes just scares companies into distributing cash or cutting costs. He…
courtesy of AOLFormer Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) chairman Richard Schulze will bid for the company, but at a level less than the $8 billion expected. (Reuters) China posts a 9.6%…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday. Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) raised to Outperform at FBR Capital…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) started as Outperform with $16…
