- Pending Home Sales Still Look Rocky
- Pending Home Sales Decline
- A123 to Replace Defective Batteries (AONE)
- National Economic Activity Survey Down
- The Stock Race to $1,000: Apple, Google, and Priceline (AAPL, GOOG, PCLN, BRK-A)
- Arena Files for European Drug Review (ARNA, VVUS, OREX)
- Sanofy, Regeneron Get Positive News from Drug Trials (SNY, REGN)
- AT&T Nokia Launch Too Little, Too Late? (T, NOK, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
- Texas Manufacturing Survey Steady
- Schlumberger Warns on Earnings (SLB, BHI, HAL)
- Intel Posts Gain in Semiconductor Market (INTC, ARMH, SSNLF, TXN, QCOM)
- US Supreme Court Appears Eager to Rule on Obamacare
- Comverge Going Private (COMV)
- Coal Miner Lowers Profit Outlook (WLT)
- Sinopec Profit Rises as Company Moves Upstream (SNP, CEO)
- AudioCodes Dives on Lowered Outlook (AUDC)
- Green Mountain Chairman Sold $66 Million in Shares Just Ahead of Dip (GMCR, SBUX)
- iPad Buyers Still Lining Up (AAPL)
- Teva Launches Generic Seroquel on First Day of Patent Loss (TEVA, AZN)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (BHI, MU, SWY, TSLA, MTG, CALM, SARA, APOL, GOL, WAG, LEN, VRNM, SLB, AONE, AUDC, ARNA)
- As Medvedev Meets Obama, Oil Trouble Grows In Russia
- Long Road Back to Employment for Older Unemployed Workers
- Keystone XL Pipeline Has Competition–WSJ
- Ten States Where Green Jobs Thrive
- The Case Against U.S. Economic Growth
- Nokia’s Cheap $99.99 Smartphone
- OECD: EU Bailout Money Must Be $1 Trillion Euros
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/27/2012) German Gas Prices, Case-Shiller Home Prices
- Media Digest (3/27/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Case-Shiller On The Way
- Tim Cook Goes To China
- German Confidence Falters
- Gas Hits $3.898
- Xbox Live to Add Comcast, HBO Go Today (MSFT, CMCSA, TWX, AAPL, GOOG)
- Homebuilder Lennar Hammers Estimates (LEN)
- US Treasury Pushing for Split of Ally? (GM)
- Bausch + Lomb Nabs ISTA (ISTA, VRX)
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/27/212) Ally Break-Up. Rio Tinto Diamonds
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATVI, APOL, BAC, BWLD, DRQ, EA, KR, MU, SAIA, SNDK, SCCO, VALE)
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Retreating
- Another Asset Sale Coming in Diamond Mining? (RIO, BHP, AAUKY)
- Analysts Preview & Set Tone for RIM Earnings (RIMM)
- Economic Confidence Reaches Multi-Year High
- Dollar General Secondary Lightens Private Equity Stakes… Buffett Involved? (DG, GS, KKR, BRK-B)
- Targacept Gets Mixed Results on Drug Trials (TRGT, AZN)
- Case-Shiller Real Estate Index Beaten Down
- Consumer Confidence Stalls
- Richmond Fed Survey Shows Moderating Economic Growth
- North Sea Leak Continues to Plague Total (TOT, RDS-A, BP)
- NY Fed President Tells Congress Europe Doesn’t Need More Fed Help
- Car Sales To Hit Four Year High In March
- Angry Birds Space Tops 10 Million Downloads (AAPL, GOOG)
- Chinese Food Processor Gets Buyout Proposal (HOGS)
- BP Sells North Sea Assets, Acquires Utica Shale Leases (BP, CHK, APC, CVX)
- Freddie Mac Reports Single-Family Delinquency Rate Falls
- Millennial Media Lifts Price Range of IPO (GOOG, AAPL)
- Optical Technology Makers to Merge (OCLR, OPXT)
- Foster Wheeler Subsidiary Gets Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s (FWLT)
- Supreme Court Could Be Lining Up Against Obamacare
- Sears Loses Marketing Chief (SHLD)
- Homebuilders Rally, Ignore Case-Shiller Drop (LEN, PHM, BZH, DHI)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (MU, ATVI, BAC, SCCO, APOL, GOL, WAG, LEN, CBK, SNX, FDO, MOS, ISTA, OPXT, OCLR, HOGS)
- Facebook Admits Yahoo! Problem In Filing
- Shanghai Composite Off 2.7%
- Media Digest (3/28/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- The Rejection of Austerity Begins
- More Debate Over Release of Strategic Oil Reserves
- Economy Trumps Oil as Major Concern
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/28/2012) New Goldman CEO, Obama Gas Poll
- Obama Loses Support On Energy–Reuters/Ipsos
- UK GDP Falters–Office of National Statistics
- CEO Ouster At Goldman?
- China Economy And Stocks
- US Gasoline Prices Top $3.90
- Commercial Metals Blasts EPS Estimate (CMC)
- Google to Launch $150 Tablet in Late Spring (GOOG, AAPL, AMZN)
- Durable Goods Gain, But Lag Estimates
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/28/2012) RBS M&A, Opel Plants
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Higher
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARNA, AONE, CIM, DTV, FSL, HTS, IACI, KMI, NVDA, PGR, CRM, VZ, WTW)
- US, UK, France Considering Crude Release
- Dollar General Discounts Shares In Secondary Offering After All-Time High (DG, GS, KKR, BRK-B)
- BATS Supports But Demotes CEO After IPO SNAFU
- SIRIUS XM Antitrust Suit… Prelude to Margin Squeeze, or a Price Hike (SIRI)
- Vermillion Scores Patent on Cancer Test (VRML)
- IPO Price Drops at Solar Firm Enphase
- The Inevitable Amylin Buyout (AMLN, BMY, LLY, ALKS)
- Short Sellers Call Victory Over Jos. A. Bank Earnings (JOSB)
- US Petroleum Inventories Jump, Imports Rise Sharply
- Vocera Scores Hot IPO Debut From Hospital Communications (VCRA)
- Annie’s… Anatomy of a Hot IPO (BNNY)
- Zoltek Makes Deal, Shares Soar (ZOLT, MGA)
- Analyst Downgrading Dollar Store Theme (FDO, WMT)
- Applied Materials Sinking on Lowered Outlook (AMAT)
- Solar Woes Get To Blame Italy This Time (FSLR, TAN, SPWR, WFR)
- The Crazy $1,650 Apple Stock Call (AAPL)
- Nokia to Sell Lumia Phones in China (NOK, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, CHA, CHL, CHU)
- QR Energy MLP Holders Selling $200 Million in Interests (QRE)
- Customers Bancorp of Pennsylvania Files For IPO
- Coal Stocks Beaten Up on New EPA Emissions Rules (BTU, ANR, PCX, ACI, JRCC, KOL)
- When Closed-End Funds Buy Back Shares (CHN, FXI)
- NY Fed Suggests Unemployment Rate Could Fall to 6% by 2013
- Freddie Mac Sees Mortgage Rates Rising to 4.5% in 2012
- Supreme Court Tackles Individual Mandate
- CEOs Optimistic on US Economy
- Apple Insiders Sell Hundreds Of Millions in Stock (AAPL)
- Why Facebook Share Trading Is Being Halted
- Synnex Plunges on Weak Outlook (SNX, ARW, AVT, IM)
- Analyzing JetBlue Brand Damage From Pilot ‘Incident’ (JBLU)
- Obama Administration OKs Alaska, East Coast Off-shore Exploration (RDS-A)
- Mosaic Shows Huge Decline In Earnings & Margin (MOS)
- Red Hat Sails Above Estimates (RHT)
- Swisher’s Accounting Swish… Sticky Fingers (SWSH)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (DTV, KMI, VZ, WTW, NVDA, CBK, SNX, FDO, JOSB, MOS, RHT, SN, BBY, SHAW, CMC, AMLN, VRML)
- Millennial Media Prices Hot IPO (MM)
- Newcastle Sets Large Secondary Offering (NCT)
- Asia Crushed Again, Europe Down
- Countries That Spend the Most on Health Care
- Troubled U.S. Cities Still Face Jobs Problems
- As Broadband Surges in Russia and China, Governments Lose
- As Spain Strikes, Reactions Against Austerity Surge
- What’s Important Today (3/29/2012) PetroChina Tops Oil Production, Goldman Board Meets
- CafePress IPO Hits ‘Hot’ (PRSS)
- Media Digest (3/29/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Goldman Sachs Still Considers Blankfein’s Fate
- Germany Unemployment At All-Time Low
- PetroChina Passes Exxon
- Globus Files For IPO, Profitable Medical Devices (GMED)
- ATP Oil & Gas Raising Capital (ATPG)
- Baidu’s Cloud Effort Likely a 2013 (or Beyond) Story (BIDU, MSFT, GOOG, YHOO)
- Tebowmania Report: Nike Sues Reebok over Gear (NKE, ADDYY)
- Sears Seeks Sale of Lands’ End — NY Post (SHLD)
- Environmental Protection is a Pocketbook Issue
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, AMZN, APOL, MT, T, CY, DK, EBAY, ESRX, GOOG, HFC, JNS, LVS, LOGI, JWN, POT, VZ, WPO, WFM, YHOO)
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Lower
- Jobless Claims Revision Skews Report Ahead of Unemployment
- GDP Revisions… When Poor Growth Never Looked So Good
- US, European Economic Growth on Different Trajectories
- Potential Deathblow for Chelsea (CHTP)
- Best Buy to Shutter 50 Stores, Go Smaller (BBY)
- Oracle Buys Drug Trial Software Firm (ORCL)
- PulteGroup Sinks Homebuilders Shares (PHM, DHI, KBH, MHO, XHB)
- Neostem Pounds Holders In Capital Raise (NBS)
- Total’s Costs for North Sea Leak Could Reach Billions (TOT, BP, RDS-A)
- Full 360-Degree Earnings Preview for RIM (RIMM, AAPL, GOOG)
- Oracle Rejects Google Offer in Patent Dispute (ORCL, GOOG)
- Natural Gas Inventories Rise, Prices Fall Again
- Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey Slightly Weaker
- Obama Speech Attacks Oil & Gas Subsidies (XOM, VLO, CHK, FSLR, USO)
- Red Hat at 12-year High, Guides Higher (RHT)
- Smartphones Now Total Half of US Mobile Phones (GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, NOK, MSFT)
- National Sports Network on Tap for News Corp.? (NWS, DIS, CMCSA, CBS)
- IEA Promises Will Act on Oil Prices
- Is the IPO Market Getting Too Hot? (MM, BNNY, LNKD, PRSS, FPX)
- Philly Fed President Warns of Treacherous Path
- Weather Trade Melts Down Deckers For Short Sellers & Put Buyers (DECK)
- Employees Rate Top CEOs (AAPL, QCOM, AXP, GOOG, HPQ)
- Best Buy’s Psychological Death From Store Closures (BBY)
- Boeing Loses 787 Orders, Gains More 737 Orders (BA, CEA)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AMZN, APOL, HFC, LVS, VZ, MOS, RHT, SN, SHAW, BBY, MY, RIMM, FINL, PHM, CHTP, MM)
- Investigation Of Apple Supplier Foxconn Finds Issues At Factories
- Williams Raises Acquisition Capital (WMB, WPZ)
- RIM Earnings Actually a Loss on GAAP Basis (RIMM)
- Google To Launch Android Tablet–WSJ
- The Bernanke Lecture Series Ends
- Gas Continues Rapid Race To $4
- More Talk Of Larger EU Firewall
- Jeff Bezos Goes To Outer Space
- Barrick Gold to Issue $2 Billion in New Debt (ABX)
- The Most Popular Cities of the Ultra-Rich
- Past Failure as a Key to Future Trouble: Google, Best Buy and RIM
- Nasdaq, Up Nearly 20% in First Quarter, Faces the Second
- Economic Confidence Erodes in Battered Cities
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/3/2012) Bezos and Apollo 11, Bernanke and the Economy
- Media Digest (3/30/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Dunkin’ Donuts Bumps Size, Price of Secondary Offering (DNKN)
- Greece May Require Third Bailout
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BBY, BWLD, CR, EMC, EXLP, GPS, IBN, INVN, LULU, MU, PAAS, BTU, RTN, RIMM, VVUS)
- Iran Trading Oil for Junk
- US Wind Generation to Stall Next Year
- Oil & Gas Create Split in Personal Income & Spending Trends
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Higher
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/30/2012) AIG In China
- New Agriculture ETF/ETP Launches For Diversification (TAGS, CORN, SOYB, CANE, WEAT)
- Eurozone Raises Firewall to €700 Billion
- Apple Overly Dominates S&P 500 Performance, Still Lags Some Index Titans (SPY, AAPL, MSFT, XOM, SHLD, BAC, NFLX)
- OPEC March Crude Production Highest Since 2008
- University Michigan Sentiment Surprises Much Higher
- Chicago Purchasing Managers: Concerns of Higher Prices, Lower Orders & Employment
- Visa, Mastercard Warn of Security Breach (V, MA)
- Finish Line Sinks on Forecast (FINL)
- Reval Files For IPO, Treasury and Risk Management
- Enphase IPO Goes Out at Low End of Range (ENPH)
- Whole Foods Bans Red-Rated Fish (WFM)
- Williams Secondary Offering Boosts Share Price (WMB, WPZ)
- Facebook’s Final Private Share Sale Is Near
- Private Equity Firms File For Michaels Stores IPO (MIK, BX)
- FriendFinder’s Results Not So Friendly (FFN)
- Yahoo! Layoffs Coming (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)
- Total Prepares to Drill Relief Wells in North Sea (TOT)
- Richmond Fed President Sees No “Rationale” for Further Easing
- No Credit Upgrade For Warren Buffett’s BNSF Rail Outfit (BRK-B)
- Verizon Could Offer Mobile Video If Spectrum Deal is Approved (VZ, VOD, CMCSA, TWC, AAPL)
- Alaska Natural Gas Deal Reached (XOM, BP, COP)
- Cybex Stock Tout Creates Trading Fluke (CYBI)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (GPS, BBY, LULU, MU, RIMM, MY, FINL, FES, DDMG, PBY, ENPH, ZAZA, LIZ)
- Groupon–More Financial Trouble As It Revises Results, Again (Will CFO Stay?)
- Planned Corn Planting Hits Seven Decade High
- Gas Nears $4, As Crude Rises Over 4% In The Quarter
- China Q1 Growth Slows
- Foxconn Eats New Costs (NASDAQ: AAPL)
- Nine US Cities Where Jobs Are Booming
- Time to Fire Groupon’s CFO
- America’s High Corporate Tax
- Petroleum Pains: London Bridges Falling Down
- JCPenney’s Shameless Board Rewards Departing CEO
- What’s Important in the Financial World (4/2/2012) Pinnacle Air Chapter 11, Record Europe Unemployment
- Media Digest (4/2/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Auto Recalls Hit Chevy And Jeep
- Brent Crude Moves To $123, Gas Prices Steady
- Pinnacle Chapter 11
- Flare Extinguished at North Sea Gas Leak (TOT)
- Keryx Drug Fails Test, Shares Plunge (KERX)
- Vringo Registers to Sell Stock, Announces Merger (VRNG, GOOG, IACI, GCI, TGT)
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/2/2012) AIG Mortgages
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Lower
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, BIP, XLS, GM, GPRN, ICE, LLTC, PRXL, PKD, PVH, GOLD, RIO, LUV, SHW, TXN)
- New iPad a Hit with Buyers, Consumer Reports (AAPL)
- Avon Calls $10 Billion Buyout Offer “Opportunistic” (AVP)
- Express Scripts, Medco Merger Completed (ESRX, CVS)
- Maybe the Rich are Like You and Me (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM)
- ISM Shows More Robust Manufacturing Growth
- Home Construction Spending Hammered Down
- Merger Watchdogs Asleep in Medco-Express PBM Merger? (MHS, ESRX)
- German Solar Maker to File for Bankruptcy
- Marc Faber Boom & Doom… Stocks, Japan, Gold (EWJ, GLD)
- Good News Trumps Bad for Willbros (WG, ETP)
- Harvest Natural Resources Sinks on Financing Plan (HNR)
- ChinaCast, From Troubled To Dysfunctional (CAST)
- Theravance Jumps on Glaxo Investment (THRX, GSK)
- Yahoo! Activist Investors Launch Recruiting Site (YHOO)
- Disk Drive Industry to Grow Again in 2012 (STX, WDC)
- Asset Transactions Booming in Oil & Gas Sector
- Dell’s Acquisition of Wyse Looks Strange (DELL)
- Meet The $1,001 Apple Share Price Target (AAPL)
- Cleveland Fed President Recommends Current Course
- Despite Some Problems, This Is One Hot IPO Market (BNNY, MM, GRPN, GWRE, BCOV, DWRE, GRPN, RPAI, NRKM)
- Battery Maker A123 Posts New Low (AONE)
- Wells Fargo Going After Super High Networth Clients (WFC, JPM, GS, NTRS)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AMZN, GRPN, RIO, TXN, GM, DDMG, CLRO, GPN, CMVT, ISCA, VRNG, WG, KERX, PNCL)