Stock averages straddle the even line at today’s close as investors slip into a consolidative frame of mind after last week’s Federal Reserve-induced rally. Stocks chopped after hitting two-year highs last week. Financial shares, in particular, took a …
A couple of shoe related companies recently reported – I decided to go with DSW (DSW) due to better chart (and parakeet expertise) but I still like Steve Madden (SHOO) for potential expansion possibilities. (Jul 30, 2010: Steve Madden – Young Wom…
Brinker International, Inc. owns, develops, operates and franchises the Chili’s and Maggiano chains and has a minority interest in the Macaroni Grill chain of casual dining restaurants.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) now changes hands at 13 times forward earnings estimates, a huge self-relative discount to long-term averages.[More...]
Despite the recent price surge in crude oil this week, basically going from $81.50 to $87 a barrel within this week–thanks to a Fed’s QE2-induced weak dollar– oil inventories actually added another 2 million barrels build to the current stockpiles.
Aside: I am not chasing anything today as the market is pulled very far from its 13 day moving average. If anything if S&P 1220 is broken to the downside, I’d like to do an intraday index short.
Pull up the chart for AGA Medical (Nasdaq: AGAM) and you’ll see a massive spike in mid October.
A 40% spike, to be exact, as the stock surged on news that St. Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ) ponied up $1.3 billion to buy the company.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. provides a range of services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, refined products, and petrochemicals in the continental United States, Canada, and Gulf of Mexico. This div…
The major U.S. indices meandered close to the flatline for much of Friday’s trade, ending little changed as traders were muted in their reaction to a strong jobs report. The averages paused after a big advance earlier this week on the heels of the Fed’…
If Magna International (MGA) were involved in the ‘cloud space’ (even 10% of revenue, which now gives you the massive overvaluation) this sort of beat would have the stock up 20%+ on this sort of report. Too bad you cannot build auto frames in th…
You already know the Republicans gained more congressional seats this week than in any election since 1938.[More...]
Some information technology areas have more dynamic growth prospects than others; a prime example is the emerging field of cloud computing.[More...]
Amazon announced Q3 results on October 21 after the market. At ChannelAdvisor, Amazon is our fastest growing channel, thus we get pretty nerdy with their quarterly results so we can read the tea leaves as much as possible. Q3 was interestin…
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Salesforce.com (CRM), Inc. is scheduled to report Q3-2011 results on Friday, November 19, 2010. In the last four quarters ending July 2010, the company’s reported EPS exceeded analysts’ consensus estimates by margins in the range of 0% and 7.4%.