If you were born with a solid trust fund or if you won the lottery, you are probably set for the rest of your life.  If not, you will at least hope your name is Boeing (BA-NYSE) or that you do...
AMD (AMD) has finally admitted that the assets which it acquired with its disastrous acquisition of graphic chip company ATI are impaired. Odd that they were the last to know. According to...
The “official” retirement age varies based on your birth year. Those born in 1943-1954 can officially retire at 66, while those born from 1955-1960 have an official retirement age of 67,...
From Ticker Sense Below is a list of the S&P 500 stocks that are trading the furthest above and below their 50- and 200-day moving averages.  Goodyear Tire (GT) leads the 50-day list and 200-day...
Everyone understands the excitement you get from those crisp, clean vacuum lines after a good cleaning. Obviously, some vacuums do it better than others. Vacuums are no small investment, particularly...
The coal sector may not yet have found a bottom, or at least the prior gains from the bottom may be short-lived. That is the word from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch this morning as the firm made two...
This might not be that unusual for a volatile week during earnings season, but this was a fairly active week for share buyback news announcements.  Some are new and some are continuations or...
Goldman Sachs is out with a call covering the steel stocks.  We’ll be keeping this one shortened to keep it in a summary format.  Goldman is noting that US STEEL PRICES ARE SET TO...
Scripps (SSP) Newspaper stock takes big hit on earnings. Falls to $7.17 from 52-week high of $147.78.McClatchy Newspapers (MNI) Another newspaper company with problems. Sells down to $4.30 from...
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Allegheny Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ATI) Raised to Buy at BofA/Merrill...
The world’s largest steelmaker is giving up on stainless steel. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) has announced that it plans to go through with a plan it began discussing during the summer that would...
These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades we are seeing this Friday-crash morning: Allegheny Tech (ATI) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. Baidu.com (BIDU) Target Cut to $260 from $350 at...
As you will see today’s gains of 10% and more on both the DJIA and the S&P 500 Index, we wanted to explore which stocks greatly outperformed the markets today.  We’d note that it is rather odd...
Source: Jon OggApparently having a short selling strategy under a hedge fund exchange-traded fund model has been working.  This week we received notice that the assets under management for...
Goldman Sachs is out with a call raising its steel company earnings targets after above expectation steel prices and tighter supplies that represent a physical steel shortage. It sees some US steel...