China’s Hang Seng Index is off almost 25% over the last three months. The S&P 500 is barely off 10% over the same period. A look at some of the components of the Hang Seng looks even worse....
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) may be one of the restructuring nightmares of the decade.  This morning the company is taking further steps in its restructuring by announcing "cost cutting...
If there has ever been a battered and tattered tech stock, UTStarcom Inc. is the epitome of that.  Almost miraculously, the company has raised guidance and shares are soaring.  The company...
Source: thinkstockThe alternative energy sector is supposed to be one of the great winners of the 2012 election outcome. After all, an Obama victory would indicate further government support for what...
Portugal hopes it can begin to issue long-term debt, again. Moody’s is not sanguine about the country’s prospects.In a new report on Portugal, Moody’s researchers commented:Portugal conducts a...
Markets in Asia were modestly higher.The Nikkei rose .9% to 12,215. ANA rose 1.9% to 377. The Hang Seng rose .3% to 19,439. BOC Hong Kong dropped on a Goldman downgrade. PetroChina (PTR) rose 2%. The...
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that he thinks defense and aerospace is becoming the seventh bull market.  He thinks that the recent huge contract to Saudi Arabia for...
PetroChina (PTR) will raise $8.9 billion in the world’s biggest share sale this year to expand refineries and increase output at oilfields. According to Bloomberg, PetroChina will sell 4...
24/7 Wall St. takes a look at famed market personality Jim Cramer’s latest buy and sell recommendations and overall analysis.
PTC Therapeutics made waves on Thursday following a development in its nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (nmDMD) treatment.
Eaton Corp. (NYSE: ETN) priced a common stock offering for 17.5 million shares at $84.00 per share for gross proceeds of $1.43 billion this morning. Its market cap is roughly $12.4 billion. Joint...
Westinghouse Electric, a subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba Corporation, has signed an engineering, procurement, and construction contract with the Florida subsidiary of Progress Energy, Inc. (NYSE:PGN)...
It is hard to make money when your own government has policies that prevent it. PetroChina (PTR) followed China Petroleum (SNP) to the earnings wood shed. According to the AP, PTR is expected to...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday.Ace Ltd. (NYSE: ACE) Started as Buy at Stern Agee.American...
PTC Therapeutics shares made a handy gain on Friday after the firm announced that it would be acquiring Agilis Biotherapeutics.