- Amylin Seeks a Buyer (AMLN, CS, GS, BMY, SNY, LLY, AZN, MRK)
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARMH, STD, BBVA, PRSS, CBS, DRQ, FFIV, GE, GRPN, MSFT, NSM, PCLN, PGR, REGN)
- Spain’s GDP Contracted in First Quarter
- Is LSI Really A Screaming Buy? (LSI, STX, MRVL)
- Homebuilder Horton Beats Estimates, Expects Full-year Profit (DHI, PHM, LEN, HOV, TOL, NVR, KBH, XHB)
- Men Love Ferrari, Women Love MINI (GM, F, TM, HMC, NSANY, KIMTF, MZDAF, SZKMF)
- The Reason To Fear Apple Earnings (AAPL, RIMM, MSFT, GOOG)
- Are Financial Firms Looking at Becoming Oil Refiners? (SU, DAL, COP, JPM)
- US Investors Deserting Equities? (RATE)
- Dividend Hikes To Continue in 2012 (T, XOM, GE, PFE, CVX, JNJ, MSFT, PG, CSCO, JPM, WMT, KO, MMM)
- Odd Options Volume Moves SanDisk (SNDK)
- Mobile Market Spending to Reach $150 Billion in 2012 (T, VZ, VOD, ZNGA, P, AAPL, GOOG, MM)
- What To Make of Jana and B&N? (BKS, AMZN, LMCA)
- Options Gamers See Wal-Mart at $56.50 in June and $55.50 in September (WMT)
- Facebook to Share AOL Patents with Microsoft (MSFT, AOL, YHOO)
- What’s A Better Buyout: Ardea or Amylin? (RDEA, AMLN, AZN, BMY, MRK)
- Investor Losses Keep Coming With Earth Day (FSLR, LDK, STP, SPWR)
- Social Security, Medicare Still Going Broke
- Netflix Gets Ruined On Weak Earnings, Shares Plunge 14%
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (GE, FFIV, GRPN, PGR, REGN, CHKP, COP, DHI, ETN, HAS, PCH, XRX, AMLN, LSI)
- Facebook’s Q1 Growth Concerns Show Up Before IPO (FB, MSFT, AOL, ZNGA)
- Facebook Reports Lower Quarterly Revenues, Income
- Spain Debt Costs Spike Higher
- Nokia Steps Closer To The Grave
- Unfounded Apple Earnings Worry
- China Auto Show Heats Up
- Shell Gets Its Way in Mozambique (RDS-A, APC)
- Thirteen Ways to Sell Your Home in 2012
- Trying to Shake Merkel Loose on Austerity
- AOL’s Resurrection
- What Do Raiders See in Barnes & Noble?
- Will Google Dump Google Finance?
- What’s Important in the Financial World (4/24/2012) Nokia Almost Dead, Spain Yields Rocket Up
- Media Digest (4/24/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg
- Mobile Chip Maker’s Results Don’t Impress Investors (ARMH, AAPL, QCOM, NVDA, TXN, INTC)
- Smartphones & Devices Drive AT&T Earnings Ahead of Plans (T)
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALSN, AZO, BIG, CHKP, CMG, CTRN, DWRE, GE, ILMN, LNKD, PBY, RMBS, TXN, UNH, XRX)
- Reynolds American: Not Smokin’ (RAI, MO, PM, LO, BTI)
- Diverging Outlooks on High Dividend Utility Sector (EXC, ETR, AEP, PEG, NVE, CPN, NRG, GEN)
- Case-Shiller–Home Prices Collapse
- Consumer Confidence Takes Another Hit
- EU Green Energy Ambitions No Easy Task
- Caution Rules In Clearwire (CLWR, S, RSH)
- New Home Sales Drop 7.1%
- Fitch Ups Ford to Investment Grade (F, GM)
- Luxury Retailer Coach Raises Dividend, Beats Estimates to No Avail (COH, KORS, TUMI)
- IBM Shows Why $230 Is A Reasonable Stock Target (IBM)
- Capella Leads For-Profit Colleges’ Downturn (CPLA, APOL, DV, CECO, COCO, STRA, WPO)
- Baker Hughes, Weatherford Continue Winning Streak for Oilfield Services Companies (BHI, WFT, HAL, SLB, NOV, CHK, OIH)
- Is Costco Competing Against Tiffany, Blue Nile, and High-End Jewelers Now? (COST, TIF, NILE)
- Motorola Gets Favorable Patent Ruling Against Apple (MMI, GOOG, AAPL)
- Why Many Investors May Want A Bad Apple Earnings Report (AAPL, MSFT)
- Is Good Times Four Times More Valuable Today Than It Was A Week Ago (GTIM, MCD, YUM, SBUX, DRI, CMG, SONC)
- Amazon Wants Online Industrial Goods Market, Other Markets Too! (AMZN, GWW, EBAY, RBA)
- Why Symantec’s Warning Is Good (SYMC)
- Apple Earnings: Blowing The Door Off The Hinges (AAPL, DELL, MSFT, GOOG, RIMM)
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- Chinese Clouds Hover Over Baidu Earnings & Guidance (BIDU)
- As Juniper Gains, It Shines On Cisco & Peers (JNPR, CSCO, ALU)
- UK Falls into Double Dip Recession and Austerity Gets Another Test
- Facebook Audience Disappoints
- Indian IT Outsourcing Woes Continue (WIT, INFY, CTSH, IBM)
- Nine Countries Where Everyone Has A Job
- Will LG, HTC and Sony Exit U.S. Smartphone Market?
- Is There a Big Search Engine Market in China?
- What’s Important in the Financial World (4/25/2012) India Downgrade, Facebook Prospects
- Media Digest (4/25/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Moody’s Hurts India
- Forbes Vs. Bloomberg–Real Time Billionaires
- Apple No Indication Of Tech Revival
- Short Interest Changes in Cult Stocks and Controversial Stocks (ALU, STD, BAC, BKS, DNDN, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, GRPN, HGSI, LNKD, NFLX, NOK, RSH, RIMM, SIRI)
- NASDAQ Joins NYSE & CME In Paying Dividends, Finally (NDAQ, NYX, CME, CBOE, ICE)
- Extreme Alternative Investing: Edvard Munch’s The Scream, at $80 Million or So (BID)
- Apple-Fever Spreads To Its Component Makers (AAPL, AMD, BRCM, MRVL, MU, LSI, QCOM, SNDK, SWKS, TQNT)
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, IRE, BWLD, CYMI, DPZ, ETH, FITB, ISRG, JCP, LEG, MCD, RF, SYMC, TWC, UTX, WMT)
- AutoNation Posts Best-Ever Earnings (AN, CRMT, KMX, F, GM, TM, HMC, NSANY)
- Orders for Durable Goods Fall
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/25/2012) Facebook IPO Delay
- Coca-Cola Adopts 1990?s Strategy: 2-for-1 Stock Split (KO, PEP)
- Boeing Earnings Surge, Forecast Rises (BA, GD, NOC, LMT, RTN)
- A New Apple Analyst Call Over $1,000 (AAPL)
- US Petroleum Inventories Rise, Imports Rise Modestly
- Low Prices, Record-low Mortgages Aren’t Attracting Home Buyers
- S&P Puts Arch Coal on Negative Watch (ACI, PCX, JRCC, ANR, BTU)
- Investors Seek Safety In Near-Record 5-Year Treasury Auction
- FOMC Keeps Exceptionally Low Rates Through At Least Late-2014 Stance
- Airlines Post Gains on Fuel Hedges, Revenues Up Too (DAL, LCC, LUV, AAMRQ, UAL, JBLU, FAA)
- Crude Oil Prices Could Move Lower
- FOMC Alters Long-Term Targets: Rates, GDP, Inflation, Unemployment
- Exxon Mobil Joins Dividend Hikes… Upside In High Oil Prices (XOM, CVX)
- Options Take: Pressure To Remain On Wal-Mart Woes (WMT, TGT, DG, BIG)
- April New Car Sales on Track for Best Month Since 2008 (F, GM, TM, HMC, NSANY)
- Amylin Gets Carl Icahn Off Its Neck! (AMLN, IEP)
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- As Shutterfly Wins Kodak Gallery Purchase, It Thwarts Facebook-Instagram Fears (SFLY, EKDKQ)
- Chevron Already One-Ups Exxon On Dividend Hike Game (XOM, CVX)
- 11 Big Unusual After-Hours Movers On News (AKAM, ACOM, CRUS, CROX, EQIX, HRB, LSI, SKX, STMP, TQNT, XLNX)
- Chrysler Helped By Lack Of Overseas Operations
- Bernanake Afterthought: The Looming Fiscal Cliff (Tax & Spending) Poses Great Recovery Risks
- Benanke Housing Worry
- Gas Price Retreats
- Nintendo Loses Money
- European Economic Confidence Falls
- Alcatel-Lucent Finds No Takers on Mixed to Dire Earnings (ALU, JNPR, NOK, ERIC, CSCO)
- America’s Most (and Least) Peaceful States
- Corporate Decisions in France to Be Made by Francois Hollande?
- More Evidence of U.S. Home Market Crater
- What’s Important in the Financial World (4/26/2012) Nintendo Loss, Gas Price Retreat
- Media Digest (4/26/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
- Potash Sales & Demand Remain Weaker Longer (POT, MOS)
- Sell In May And Go Away? A 2012 Primer (BAC, JPM, GE, AA, CAT, MSFT, INTC, AAPL, XOM, CVX, DD)
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ABB, APD, AKAM, COP, GD, HOG, HES, INFY, MAN, MAR, SAP, S, TRV, WPI)
- Tellabs Shows Mixed Earnings Report (TLAB)
- Altria Doesn’t Light it Up (MO, RAI, LO, PM)
- Top Active Trader Alerts (AKAM, CRUS, CTXS, CROX, EA, EQIX, HTWR, HRB, LOGI, NUAN, SKX, STMP, TQNT, XLNX)
- Another Poor Weekly Jobless Claims Reading
- Pepsi Bubbles Along (PEP, KO, CCE, COKE, CCH, KOF)
- Exxon Stumbles on Production, Higher Costs (XOM, CVX, COP, BP, TOT, CHK)
- The Cracks Form In Prepaid & No-Contract Cellular (LEAP, PCS, S, T, VZ)
- Chesapeake’s Board Reluctantly Steps Up (CHK)
- Monster Adds Lustre for Possible Sale (MWW, LNKD, RHI, MAN)
- Natural Gas Inventories Rise Moderately, Prices Higher
- J&J Joins Dividend Hike One-Up Game (JNJ, PFE, MRK)
- The Implosion Games (SNPK)
- The Mirage of Pending Home Sales Increases
- Full Earnings Preview for Amazon.com… Watch Those Margins (AMZN, BBY, RSH, BKS)
- Record Low 7-Year Treasury Note Yield At $29 Billion Auction
- Very Elevated Options Trading in Zynga Ahead of Earnings (ZNGA)
- Big Deal in the Propane Business (SPH, NRGY, APU, FGP)
- S&P Downgrades Chesapeake Credit Ratings Over CEO Issues (CHK, CHKM)
- Chesapeake Gas Well Blow-out in Wyoming Leads to Evacuations (CHK, CEO, HAL)
- Deckers Comes Clean With Bad News (DECK)
- Kindle Fire Dominates Android Tablet Market (SCOR, AMZN, GOOG, AAPL, SSNLF, MMI, DELL, SNE)
- Zynga Delivers A Tad Ahead… Is It Good Enough? (ZNGA)
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- Amazon Earnings Overcome Seriously Low Margins (AMZN)
- S&P Downgrades Spain, Warns Of More Cuts (STD, BBVA)
- Spain 24.4% Unemployment Worse Than Downgrade
- Fate Of Post Office Debated
- Richmond Fed President Lacker Attacks Rate Policy
- New Home Buyers Already Underwater
- France’s Francois Hollande Makes War On Austerity
- America’s Cities with the Cleanest Air
- Samsung Passes Nokia as Handset Leader, Its Earnings Rocket
- Americans No Longer Expect Retirement at 65
- The Starbucks/Mercedes Economy
- What’s Important in the Financial World (4/27/2012) Brand New Homes Underwater, Postal Service War
- Media Digest (4/27/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/27/2012) Falcone Trouble At LightSquared
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AET, AEM, APD, ALU, MDRX, AMZN, AMCC, BIDU, CBG, CTCT, DECK, EBAY, LOGI, PCS, PM, REGN, SNDK, STX, WDC, ZNGA)
- Chain of Demand: Lumber, Wood Products, New Homes (WY, PCL, RYN, POPE, LPX, UFPI, BXC, BLDR, DEL)
- North American Sales Hike Ford Revenues, Profits (F, GM, TM, HMC)
- Q1-2012 GDP Not Strong But No Recession Fears
- Nokia, Left For Dead, Cut To Junk By S&P
- One Big Disbelief of an Amylin Buyout… Worth Only $12 Per Share? (AMLN, BMY, MRK, AZN, SNY, PFE, NVO)
- Chevron Follows Conoco, Exxon on Production Declines (CVX, COP, XOM)
- Consumer Sentiment Steady in April
- The Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (NYX, ACI, ADM, BRCM, CHK, SIRI, VLO, AWK, NLY, CMCSA, FSLR, GRMN, HIG, MA, SYMC, V, WFM)
- Golf World Still Under Par (ELY, GOLF, ADGF, DKS, PERY)
- P&G’s Forecast Dims Consumer Goods Sector (PG, JNJ, CL, KMB)
- Allscripts Plunges on Perfect Storm of Bad News (MDRX)
- Starbucks’ Shares Fall After Solid Results (SBUX)
- The Highly Unusual Case Of Cray & Supercomputing (CRAY, INTC)
- Expedia Sails, Lifts All Boats (EXPE, HOT, HST, WYN, MAR, OWW, PCLN, TRIP)
- Western Digital Shares Hammered on Bad Karma (WDC, STX)
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- 24/7 Wall St. Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades Of The Week (ABB, ALSN, AMZN, AAPL, PRSS, CMG, DWRE, HES, INFY, MCD, SNDK, WMT, ZNGA, STX, WDC, STD, BBVA)
- 24/7 Wall St. Top Dividend Stories of the Week (JNJ, XOM, CVX, KO, IBM, NDAQ, AEP)
- Is P&G About To Fire Its CEO Robert McDonald?
- Apple Reacts To NYTimes Tax Accusations
- Fast-Acting Erectile Dysfunction Drug Penetrates The Market
- Spain Skids Into Recession
- American Companies with the Most Customers
- America’s Continuing Love Affair with Gold
- A Need for Social Security When There May Be Little
- What Happened to New York Times’ CEO Search?
- What’s Important in the Financial World (4/30/2012) Gas Prices Fall, Global Unemployment Rises
- Media Digest (4/30/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- China Car Show Ends In Disappointment
- Global Unemployment Worry Grows–Internatioal Labor Organization
- More Speculation About QE3
- Gas Prices Continue Decline
- How Bad Are Things in the Garbage and Waste Management Sector? (WM, RSG, WCN, BIN, ECOL, VLO)
- LDK Implodes (LDK, FSLR, TSL, STP, JASO, YGE)
- Stock Upgrades And Downgrades–British Sky Broadcasting
- Nook, Windows 8 Pairing Doubles B&N Stock Price
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/30/2012) Nokia Sell Vertu Luxury Unit
- ETP Acquires Sunoco for $5.3 Billion (ETP, SUN, ETE, SXL)
- Personal Income, Savings Rise in March
- Budweiser Sales Rise, InBev Shares Falter (BUD, TAP, SAM, SBMRY)
- Chicago PMI Report at 29-Month Low
- April Same-store Sales Headed for a Fall (WAG, KSS, SKS, JCP, TJX, XRT)
- Canada’s “Dirty Oil” Exports to US to Triple (TRP, KMI, ENB)
- Coke Ready to Swallow a Monster? (KO, MNST, PEP, DPS)
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- Germany Presses Austerity, Again
- BP Profits Off
- Bank Of America Readies More Job Cuts
- First Quarter Stock Indexes Retreat
- Parliament Committee Say Murdoch Unfit To Run Global Firm
- States Where the Most Children Lost Homes
- Can Microsoft Save Cursed Barnes & Noble? No
- China PMI — One Month Is Not a Trend
- Caterpillar Labor Problems and Burdens of Success
- Media Digest (5/1/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/1/2012) Coca-Cola Bid For Monster
- Does Delta Make Sense as an Oil Refiner? (DAL, PSX, COP, ETP, SUN, UAL, LCC, LUV, JPM, BP)
- Foreclosures Fall In March And First Quarter–Corelogic
- Sears: When Good News Looks Bad (SHLD)
- Stock Upgrades And Downgrades
- P.F. Chang’s Going Private (PFCB, CHUX, JAX, CMG)
- Is LG Turning Its Back on Microsoft? (MSFT, GOOG, NOK, T)
- Arch Coal’s Bad Results Could Get Worse (ACI, BTU, ANR, PCX, JRCC, CLD)
- Manufacturing Index Rises for 33rd Consecutive Month
- McClendon Out as Chairman at Chesapeake (CHK)
- Avis Jumps on Revised Forecast (CAR, HTZ, DTG, ZIP)
- Is Buyout of Pep Boys Going Bad? (PBY, AZO, ORLY)
- Maybe LED Market Isn’t That Bad (VECO, AMAT, CREE, RBCN, LEDS, AIXG)
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- Chesapeake Board May Oust CEO McClendon
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- DJIA, At Four-Year High, Will Rise Further
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- Samsung’s Sales Surge Continues
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- European Unemployment Officially Worst in a Dozen Years
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AIZ, CERN, CHK, LFC, COP, FLEX, GNW, HLF, RSH, STM, TEX)
- Chesapeake Shares Diving on Results, McClendon (CHK, XOM, EOG)
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/2/2012) GM M&A
- BATS Volume Gains Despite IPO SNAFU
- ADP & TrimTabs Showing Much Weaker Payrolls Ahead of Unemployment Report
- Angie’s List & Insiders Unloading Shares, With Kid Gloves (ANGI, YELP)
- Gold Miners in Flux (ABX, GG, NEM, KGC, AUY, FCX)
- Garmin’s Earnings Surprise: Strength in PND Segment (GRMN, TRMB)
- Analyst Caution In Sirius XM… Dividends or Stock Buybacks Coming? (SIRI, LMCA, P)
- The Return of the Euro-Bank Fears (NBG, STD, BBVA, IRE, DB, UBS, CS, BCS, RBS)
- Comcast: The Broadband Battle is Starting to Heat Up (CMCSA, TWC, CVC, VZ, VOD, T, NFLX, DTV, DISH, PCS, LEAP, DTEGY)
- US Petroleum Inventories Rise, Imports Rise Modestly
- Only A Few Big Retail/Apparel Winners Expected For April (JWN, SKS, LULU, KORS, AEO)
- Second Look: Is There Any Real Value Left In Savient? (SVNT, DNDN, SVNT)
- Amazon to Develop Sitcoms, Kids Shows (AMZN, NFLX, DIS, TWX, CBS, VIAB)
- Target Dumps Kindle Devices (TGT, AMZN, AAPL, BKS, MSFT, GOOG)
- Wireless Company Accused of Calling in Chinese Muscle (UBNT, PCS, USM)
- Arch Coal Credit Downgrade (ACI)
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