ThinkstockLow-priced stocks can often have active volume already, and quite often due to perhaps nothing more than their low share price when news is announced. 24/7 Wall St. already tracked the active short interest…
ThinkstockBy 2017, more than 1 billion people around the world will be using mobile banking services. That’s the number that will be using their mobile phone handsets. Nearly 200 million users will be using…
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is out with its so-called RIC-Report for its clients. There is good news for equity investors, but not such good news for investors in municipal bonds, corporate credit,…
Short sellers have continued to by and large increase their short-sale bets against the quality high-yield dividend stocks. The price gains must lead short sellers to believe that the yields are getting too low…
courtesy of Google Inc.You have seen more than one Wall St. analyst call Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) with a $1,000 price target, and one more analyst just went up close to that yesterday. Today…
ThinkstockLexington Realty Trust (NYSE: LXP) has joined the waves of other companies raising capital by secondary stock offerings. The single tenant-REIT has priced an underwritten registered public offering of 20,000,000 common shares at a…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe short interest in the actively traded low-priced stocks saw some significant changes at the end of February. We compared the February 28 settlement date to the February 15 settlement…
ThinkstockThe long running saga that is the construction of TransCanada Corp. (NYSE: TRP) Keystone XL pipeline may be coming to an end. Designed to transport oil from the Athabasca oil sands in Canada to refineries…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) maintained Hold but price target cut to $420 from $500 at…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 28 in the following large cap stocks: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), Verizon…
For anybody that has missed the big stock market rally, it can be very disheartening to watch as anchors on every business and news channel talk about indices hitting all-time highs day after day.…
ThinkstockThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) this morning reported a rise of 1.9 points in its small business optimism index, from 88.9 in January to 90.8 in February. The NFIB noted that the…
ThinkstockThe Treasury Department continues to dump massive numbers of shares in General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), either because it wants to show it can get some taxpayer money back from its bailout of the…
ThinkstockThe never-ending battle over the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) buyout of Autonomy continues. HP took a $5 billion write-off less than a year after the deal. It seems that the big company was duped…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.A new study by Cambridge University professors shows that “undisclosed” private data that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) might collect could be used to predict extremely sensitive information about members. Does Facebook use systems identical…