- Discovery Labs Shareholders Get Smacked on Secondary Offering (DSCO)
- Crude Oil, Gold Finish Week Lower
- Closing Bell (3/16/2012)
- IMF Forecasts Of New Greece Trouble
- Gas Jumps Again
- Apple (AAPL) To Announce Plans For Its $100 Billion In Cash, Tomorrow
- UPS Close To TNT Express Deal–WSJ
- US Top Arms Exporter, India Top In Imports
- Gas Prices Up For Tenth Day
- Hundreds Of Millions For Airbus A 380 Repairs
- Starbucks Gets Into Juice Business
- How Long Will Oil Stay at $150?
- The News Industry Runs Out of Money
- Is Portugal the Next Greece?
- Dell Wants To Challenge Apple In Tablet PC
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/19/2012) Starbucks Juice Bar, China’s Arms
- Media Digest (3/19/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Fracking Did Not Pollute Pennsylvania Water
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACI, CZR, COF, ETFC, GPS, NUE, PCX, S, TSL, UPS, WYNN, YGE, YUM)
- QR Energy Continues Acquisition Spree (QRE)
- LDK Solar Slashes Forecasts (LDK, HSOL, SOL)
- Apple Unleashing $45 Billion for Dividends & Buybacks (AAPL, MSFT, INTC)
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Lower
- SecondMarket Launches ‘The Facebook Fund’ To Buy Shares Before IPO (FB, GSVC)
- Hess Looks to Sell Caribbean Terminal (HES, GS)
- NY Fed Chief Urges Attention to Economic Headwinds
- Homebuilders Confidence Weak, But Steady
- New Street-High Apple Target: $750 Stock Call (AAPL)
- Greek CDS Auction Payout About $2.5 Billion
- Biopharma Firm Crushed by Merck Deal Cancellation (CRME, MRK)
- More Bankruptcy Concerns For Sprint (S)
- St. Jude, Device Maker Settle Royalty Dispute (STJ, KNSY)
- Ampio Shares Booming on Positive Test Results (AMPE)
- Consumers Worried About Economic Recovery Faultering (RATE)
- Energy Crop Firm Ceres Jumps on Gene Mapping (CERE)
- Russia Likely to Open Arctic to Private Development (XOM, BP, STO)
- Mid-March Unemployment Data Improves — Gallup
- Settlement: Madoff Trustee Vs. Mets
- NY Mets’ Owners Settle Madoff-related Suit for $162 Million
- BofA Back at $10.00, Still Substantial Discount To Book Value (BAC, BRK-B)
- Kindle First-quarter Sales Weak (AMZN, AAPL)
- Oracle Options Heating Up Before Earnings
- Chicago Fed Manufacturing Index Rises
- Norit N.V. Files For U.S. IPO (NRIT)
- Will Lululemon Outshine Nike on Earnings? (LULU, NKE)
- US Treasury Reaps Profit on Mortgage Bonds (AIG, GM)
- A Lucky Escape For Dunkin’ Holders From Secondary Offering (DNKN)
- Qualcomm Posts 10-year High on iPad (QCOM, AAPL)
- BofA Secondary Rumors Weighing (BAC)
- Adobe Earnings, Good Not Good Enough (ADBE)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AAPL, ACI, COF, GPS, S, UPS, HAST, IOC, ADBE, FMCN, LDK, QRE, AMPE, CERE)
- The Generic Boniva Opportunity (RHHBY, MYL)
- Hunger Games Larger Than Twilight? (LGF)
- Wendy’s New Number 2 in Burger Sales (WEN, MCD, MCG, SBUX, PNRA)
- Apple Sells Three Million iPads
- The Six States Where Taxes Are Soaring
- Facebook Underwriters Get Next To Nothing
- Market Raises U.S. Gas Prices, Chinese Government Raises Its
- Get Ready for Oprah to Be Cancelled
- More Hope for Microsoft Shares with Windows 8
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/20/2102) GE Rating Warning, Goldman Layoffs
- Media Digest (3/20/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Gas Prices Up, Again
- Goldman Sachs To Cut Staff
- Geithner Attacks Austerity
- A Moody’s Downgrade Of GE?
- OLED Player Novaled AG Files for U.S. IPO
- Does Amazon Really Need to Buy Robots? (AMZN)
- Disney Will Take $200 Million Write-off On “John Carter”
- Apple Gets New $740 Analyst Price Target (AAPL)
- Is Oil the Next Greece?
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Sinking
- Amerigon Hammers Holders With Capital Raise (ARGN)
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADBE, ARG, APD, AAPL, ARMH, CA, DRIV, DPZ, GES, HOG, KMI, LGF, OVTI, UPS, UTX)
- Saudis Ready Fleet of Tankers to Send to the US
- Housing Starts Slightly Lower than Forecast
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/20/2012) Saudi Exports
- Internet to Become World’s Fifth-largest Economy
- Lower Steel Demand from China Chills Mining Stocks (BHP, VALE, RIO)
- BofA: When Rumors Hurt More Than Denial Adds (BAC)
- Why A GE Downgrade By Moody’s Would Be Wrong Now (GE)
- Economic Confidence Level Drops — Gallup
- Is That a Nissan? No, it’s a Datsun.
- IDC Forecasts Stronger PC Growth in 2nd Half of 2012 (MSFT, INTC, AAPL)
- Glencore Nabs Viterra for $6.2 Billion (VTRAF.PK, GLCNF.PK, AGU)
- Shipping Company Cancels Reverse Stock Split (NEWL)
- Chinese Oil Field Services Firm Jumps (RCON, BHI, SNP)
- Bracing For BATS IPO This Week (BATS, NYX, NDAQ, CBOE)
- Targacept Slammed on Failed Drug Trial (TRGT, AZN)
- Bernanke Lectures This Week Look To Reveal Little New
- Apple on Track to Sell 12 Million New iPads This Quarter (AAPL)
- Williams Partners Acquires Gas Gathering System (WPZ, WMB)
- Unusual Options Trading Action In Regions Financial (RF)
- Sears Pushes Further Into Real Estate
- Punishing Chinese Solar Makers, With Candy (TSL, STP, LDK, JASO, FSLR, STP)
- Caveats Trusting Yahoo! & Alibaba Talks (YHOO)
- Tiffany Jumps on Forecast (TIF)
- Federal Reserve Makes Killer Profits Building The Balance Sheet? (AIG)
- New iPad is Hot — The Real Kind of Hot (APPL)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (ARMH, HOG, UPS, KMI, AAPL, FCFC, JASO, JEF, PATH, TIF, ORCL, KKD, RCON, NEWL, TRGT)
- Oracle Dodges Earnings Hangman (ORCL)
- Cities Where People Can’t Afford Their Rent
- Saudi Action Does Not Lower Crude Prices
- Airline Industry Gives Up on Profits
- America Raises a Nation of Idiots
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/21/2012) Hot Apple iPad, Japan’s Oil Imports
- Media Digest (3/21/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Microsoft Cuts Supply For Apple Products–Source
- Japan Claims To Slow Iran Oil Imports
- Bernanke Worries More About EU In Testimony
- Two Problems For Apple iPad
- Mortgage Activity & Refinance Activity Already Cooling Off
- DryShips Unloading Ocean Rig UDW Shares (ORIG, DRYS)
- Gasoline Prices Continue March to $4 Everywhere
- Shell Gets Shale Gas Deal in China (RDS-A, PTR, CVX, TOT, BP)
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACN, MDRX, BLK, FMCN, FRO, HD, NRGY, JAH, KMI, LNKD, L, MU, OPEN, ORCL, RGLD, USB)
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Higher
- 7 Big Tech Companies That Need To Follow Apple’s Dividend Policy (AAPL, MSFT, INTC, ADBE, DELL, EBAY, EMC, GOOG, SYMC, YHOO)
- Broadcom Buys Chip Maker (BRCM)
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/21/2012) HP Printers, JPMorgan M&A
- Baker Hughes Slices First Quarter Profit Estimate (BHI, SLB, HAL)
- Home Market Finds Foundation
- Bernanke Testimony: Coordinated International Swaps With Major Central Banks
- LookSmart Doesn’t (LOOK)
- Green Mountain… In Favor Again With Starbucks? (GMCR, SBUX)
- Micron Bids for Japan’s Bankrupt Elpida (MU, INTC)
- Teva Tries NASDAQ & NYSE Exchange Hat Trick (TEVA)
- HP Pulls the Trigger on Realignment — Again (HPQ)
- US Petroleum Inventories Fall, Imports Rise
- Kraft Identifies New Names & Units (KFT)
- Origin Agritech Skyrockets on China Report (SEED)
- Fed Calls For Break-Up Of Too Big To Fail Banks
- Chinese Solar Firms’ Stocks Dive on Tariff News (YGE, TSL, STP, JASO, LDK, FSLR, SPWR)
- Most Ethical Companies List Published (GE, F, INTC, ADBE, MSFT, XRX, SRE, AXP, DE, CSCO)
- Dendreon Rises on Takeover Chatter (DNDN, LLY, AMGN)
- Brazilian Crude Reserves Could Double to 30 Billion Barrels (PBR)
- Hamburgers Going Gourmet (MCD, WEN, SONC, JACK)
- Value vs. Value Trap: Is RadioShack Finally Cheap Enough? (RSH, BBY)
- Junior Gold Miner Rubicon Gets Permits (RBY, GG, GDXJ)
- Trader Inquiry… Playing RIMM Down To Under $10 (RIMM)
- Zynga Deal for OMGPOP Near Certain (ZNGA, AAPL, GOOG)
- IT Staffing Services Acquisition Boosts On Assignment (ASGN, MAN, KELYA, RHI)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (HD, LNKD, MU, RGLD, BX, ORCL, GIS, KKD, SAI, DQ, FRED, BHI, LOOK, SEED, GMCR, YGE)
- Starbucks To Challenge Red Bull In Super-Caffeine Drinks
- America’s Most Corrupt States
- AP Hires Worst CEO in Newspaper Industry
- China’s Recession Begins
- One More Car Company’s Risky Bet on China
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/22/2012) Airline Trouble, Europe Economy Shrinks
- Media Digest (3/22/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Emirates Warns On Global Airline Failures
- Apple Continues To Rise
- Europe’s Recession
- No Let-Up In Gas Price Increases
- Dollar General Beats Estimates (DG)
- Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Back on Front Burner (BP, XOM, COP)
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Down
- Discovery Channel Could Post Big Loss on Oprah Network (DISCA)
- Solar Company BrightSource Preps IPO (GS, C, DB, GOOG)
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/22/2012) Google Wallet, Apple iPhone
- Plenty of TARP Recipients Still Delinquent (RF, ZION)
- Bank’s Re-capitalization Effort Ends, Stock Plunges (BTFG)
- Annaly Downgrade Highlights Mortgage REIT Sector Risks Ahead (NLY, MORT)
- Gun Makers Soar on Demand (RGR, SWHC)
- Leading Indicators Pointing Up
- FuelCell Hammers Holders With Large Secondary Offering (FCEL)
- BATS IPO To Heat Up Public Exchange Competition (NYX, NDAQ, CBOE)
- Randgold, a Mali Coup, and the Price of Timbuktu (GOLD)
- US House Prices Unchanged in January
- Analyst Kicks The Irish While They Are Down (IRE)
- Natural Gas Inventories Rise, Prices Drop
- March New Car Sales at 2-1/2 Year High
- Headlines Bad For Diamond Foods, But…. Light at the End of the Tunnel? (DMND)
- Millionaire Households Rise to 8.6 Million
- America’s Least Corrupt States
- President Obama Promises Fast Track for Keystone XL’s Southern Leg (TRP)
- AEP Formalizes Plant Closures, Power Grid Trouble Ahead? (AEP)
- TIPS Buyers Get Negative Interest Rate
- World Water Day’s Top Pick: American Water Works (AWK)
- More than 40% of Americans Say Energy Situation is “Very Serious” — Gallup
- Can Asian Franchise Growth Save RadioShack? (RSH)
- Odds Increasing of Monster Buyout, Maybe (MWW)
- Plug Power Plugs Its Shareholders With Poorly Timed Secondary Offering (PLUG)
- Nike Earnings Just Did It (NKE)
- Micron Squeezes By on Earnings, Comparables Weak (MU)
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (XOM, WDC, RAX, NLY, EMR, BBX, CAG, GME, IHS, LULU, PERY, SONC, NCTY, DG, DISCA, RGR, SWHC, BTFG, DMND)
- Durata Therapeutics Files For IPO (DRTX)
- All 3 IPOs Go Hot (ET, VNTV, CSTE)
- American Tower Sets First REIT Yield For Dividend Investors (AMT)
- T-Mobile Downsizes
- Oil Supply Cuts Rise–Reuters
- Fast-Food Chains with the Most Unhealthy Customers
- A Mortgage Relief Plan Some Cannot Afford
- American Airlines May Finally Be Sold
- Americans Begin to Abandon the Environment
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/23/2012) Green Job Growth, T-Mobile Layoffs
- Media Digest (3/23/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
- Gas Prices Advance Yet Another Day
- Green Jobs Jump–BLS
- Cargill to Boost Ethanol Production (ADM, VLO, GPRE, ANDE, PEIX)
- Best Buy’s iPhone Sales Nearly Equal to Apple’s, Sprint Halfway There Already (BBY, AAPL, T, VZ, S)
- Diabetes Drug Approved For Europe (AMLN, LLY)
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/23/2012) UAW And VW
- Zynga Founder & Backers Selling Almost $600 Million in Stock, Already (ZNGA)
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AET, MO, CVH, CBST, DFS, EXM, HFC, MWW, RAI, XLNX, ZNGA)
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Flat
- Weight Watchers Manages Successful Tender Offer To Retire Shares (WTW)
- 4G Phone Sales to Rise 1,000% in 2012 (AAPL, GOOG, SSNLF, VZ, VOD, T, S)
- KB Home Staggers as New Orders Decline (KBH)
- Fed President Bullard Rejects More Stimulus
- Plug Power Raises Capital By Selling Shares Too Cheap, Untimely (PLUG)
- Zynga Preps Secondary Offering (ZNGA, GOOG)
- Management Shake-up Clobbers KIT Digital (KITD)
- New Homes Sales Wreck Housing Players (HD, LOW, ITB, XHB)
- Top Earnings Previews for the Week Ahead (APOL, GOL, LEN, PVH, WAG, CMC, FDO, MOS, PAYX, RHT, SN, TEA, BBY, PBY, RIMM)
- Lower Iranian Crude Shipments Push Prices Sharply Higher
- Mobile Services Firm iPass Jumps on Takeover Talk (IPAS)
- Cost Plus Forecast Drives Shares Higher (CPWM)
- The Management Gap at First Solar (FSLR)
- Peabody Warning Still Somewhat In-Line (BTU)
- Standard Register Shares Jump on New Deal (SR)
- Germany Could Soften Solar Subsidy Cuts (TSL, YGE, LDK, JASO, STP)
- Moody’s Lifts Andarko Debt to Investment Grade (APC)
- Losing Mobile Phones Nearly as Popular as Buying Them
- 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AET, MO, MWW, RAI, ZNGA, DRI, DLGC, ACN, BONE, WTSLA, KBH, KITD, CPWM, BTU, PLUG)
- BATS… When An Exchange Cannot Even IPO Its Own Stock (BATS)
- Corzine Did Nothing Wrong On MF Transfer?
- Supreme Court And Obama Healthcare
- New Endorsements For Tiger Woods?
- Microsoft Struggles With Apps Supply
- Gas Move Sharply Higher
- Highest-Paid Hosts On Late Night TV
- Troubled Italy Calls Out Troubled Spain
- American Business Warns of Slowdown in China
- German Economy Expands Again
- What’s Important in the Financial World (3/26/2012) Gas Nears $4, Tiger Woods Endorsements
- Media Digest (3/26/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
- Troubled HTC Launches New Smartphone
- German Economy Not So Hot
- Bernanke Talks Up The Jobs Market
- Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BHI, ICE, LXK, MTG, MU, RDN, GOLD, SWY, TSLA, XL)
- S&P Cautions on Russia
- AstraZeneca Loses Patent Fight (AZN)
- Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Higher
- Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/26/2012) Merkel Firewall, Student Debt Collection
- More Caution Remains in LED Sector (AIXG, VECO, RBCN, CREE)
- Light Beers Looking for More Drinkers (TAP, BUD, SBMRY)
- Will Investors Turn Away From CDs Forever?
- Yahoo! Adds Three Independent Directors (YHOO, AXP, DISCA, IACI, MSFT)
- Verenium Soars on Asset Sales (VRNM, CDXS, SZYM)