Pullbacks are good in a bull market, particular the gap-down pullbacks offering investors a chance to get into shares they missed on a slight sale. We discussed in-depth the inflow of capital into stocks along…
courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) has promised no more large mergers for the near-term, although buying a $1.6 billion company still appears to be fair game for Larry Ellison and his team at…
Jon OggThese are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) reiterated Buy with $46 target at Argus. Cavium Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) reiterated Buy with…
ThinkstockA Tomato Truce The tomato wars between Mexico and the United States are over. The announcement was front page news, although it is hard to see why that happened. According to The New York…
courtesy of AOL, IncJapan Airlines approaches Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) about the cost of its grounded 787 Dreamliner fleet. (Reuters) Electric cars sales may be hurt as the industry considers hydrogen-powered vehicles. (Reuters) BlackBerry…
ThinkstockCorporate governance issues are sometimes a blessing for shareholders, but they also can crush the rights of shareholders in many cases. Tracking CEO pay of large public companies is now considered open hunting season, since…
ThinkstockOne more piece of economic data out of China added to an almost unbroken line of statistics which show its GDP, factory, and service activity have picked up sharply since a slump which lasted through the…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning on the heels of a solid report on U.S. nonfarm payrolls, which rose less than expected but on top of a large upward revision for December (more…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A./N.V. (NYSE: BUD) cut to Hold at Soc-Gen. Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (NASDAQ: BWLD)…
ThinkstockThe maker of the “The King of Beers” will not be expanding its kingdom. Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A./N.V. (NYSE: BUD), itself a creation of a merger, probably will be blocked from buying Grupo Modelo of Mexico. The…
ThinkstockThe United Kingdom’s PMI showed a 3% year-over-year rise last month, marking a tiny recovery from what has been a terrible period for its economy. The data were reported by Markit. According to Bloomberg:…
ThinkstockAnheuser-Busch InBev Hits Roadblock The maker of the “The King of Beers” will not be expanding its kingdom. Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A./N.V. (NYSE: BUD), itself a creation of a merger, probably will be blocked from buying Grupo…
ThinkstockThe NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments, which covers returns on university funds at 831 institutions of higher education for the fiscal year that ended in June, showed that Harvard, which has the largest fund at $30.4 billion,…
thinkstockPMI data from Asia shows the slowing of economies there. (Reuters) A private equity buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may be only week away. (Reuters) The cost of beef has squeezed McDonald’s Corp.’s…
Thinkstock The United States has always prided itself as one of the most innovative countries in the world. In fact, patenting in a wide range of scientific fields has been on the rise in…