RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) just cannot manage to find any love. The troubled electronics retailer was downgraded to Neutral at BofA/Merrill Lynch, which is really just part of the ongoing wave of negative sentiment…
ThinkstockThe debate over how America’s largest companies use cash will pick up again. Moody’s Investor Services released a study that forecasts how big the cash balances will be at some of these public corporations at the…
ThinkstockCorporate Cash Piles Up The debate over how America’s largest companies use cash will pick up again. Moody’s Investor Services released a study that forecasts how big the cash balances will be at some of…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) will lay off 300 people. (Reuters) Electronics Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) chief executive departs as the firm missed earnings. (Reuters) Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) ramps up hiring…
thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Chyron Corp. (NASDAQ: CHYR) is up 25.7% at $1.32. Atossa Genetics Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS) is up 23.2% at $9.12. Nymox Pharmaceutical Corp. (NASDAQ: NYMX) is…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a weekend of confusion over the proposed solution to the banking problem in Cyprus. It’s not that Cyprus claims a particularly large banking system, but the…
ThinkstockActive traders and more active investors looking for news lists of stocks to buy or other investing ideas often look at stocks which are very active in trading volume. Some are up big, some…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released its data on state and regional unemployment for January. Compared with December data, unemployment rates rose in 25 states and the…
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has made several changes on its strategy team, with new outlooks in currency and index levels. The big change is in the S&P 500, although it was behind the curve…
ThinkstockLarge companies such as Yahoo! and Best Buy recently have made headlines with new policies that prohibit working from home. This runs counter to the growing trend of more Americans telecommuting. According to a U.S.…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are always looking for good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research and some come from sell-side firms on Wall…
ThinkstockThe unit of Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) that issues gift cards and other prepaid and reloadable cards this morning filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise up…
We have written a great deal these past few months about the signs that may be emerging to signal a true bull market. The media love to embrace their idea that we have been…
ThinkstockThe Stockholm International Peace Research Institute research on arms imports and exports of weapons remains the gold standard in this sort of measurement. The top line news from its new Trends in International Arms Sales…
ThinkstockHSBC Job Cuts The restructuring of the financial services industry, which has ranged from 30,000 layoffs at Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) to cuts at Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Barclays PLC (NYSE:…