Source: ThinkstockToday’s announced acquisition of Local TV Holdings and its 19 TV stations by The Tribune Company follows a script mapped out earlier this year by other TV station owners like...
PayPal and Visa each reported earnings after the markets closed on Thursday, and at the same time announced a somewhat surprising partnership.
Circor shares were crushed on Monday after it came out that the firm’s board of directors had unanimously rejected a buyout bid. Specifically, this was a revised acquisition bid from Crane.
Source: ThinkstockThe world of biotech investing is always a difficult one. Often a binary event, such as a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval or a life-saving capital raise is the...
McDonald's reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Thursday morning. Earnings looked stagnant and the company seems to be out of fresh ideas.
From Ticker Sense This weekend’s issue of Barron’s had an interesting story which recapped the performance of sell-side brokerage firms’ "Best Idea" lists.  As the table below shows, the...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its most recent monthly Oil Market Report on Friday morning.
Bank of America has released its third-quarter list of top 10 investment ideas, which includes one short candidate.
I like 'em. They're cool. But they're also sufficiently self-indulgent to make me wonder why. 
Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl chairman of the U.S. Senate’s antitrust subcommittee suggested that regulators nix the merger of Sirius (SIRI) and XM (XMSR). His comments were aimed at the Justice...
The IEA September Oil Market Report said that demand for crude will fall sharply for this year and the year ahead.
Source: ThinkstockIn the wake of yesterday’s OPEC oil market report, we have the latest monthly report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) today. While the two differ somewhat in specifics,...
Oppenheimer's portfolio strategy team has combed through the universe of stocks they cover and found a group that falls into the favorable category when it comes to the firm's quantitative screens.
Many Americans believe that the only way the housing market will recover soon is if the federal government takes an aggressive role in its improvement. That will require a sea change in the way...
Source: thinkstockThe International Energy Agency (IEA) raised its monthly forecast for crude oil demand growth in 2013 by 235,000 barrels a day, from a prior estimate of 865,000 barrels a day to...