Housewares & Specialties

Bay National Corporation (NASDAQ: BAYN) is the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged among 159% today to $3.00 on moderate volume of 240K shares on no news. Today, Bay National Corp. has has re-crossed its 200-day moving average. American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM)  rallied 25.50...

HSN, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSNI) crossed its earlier 52-week high of $14.56 and touched a new 52-week high at $15.06 in today’s morning trade. Currently the stock is trading at $14.73, up 2.51% on 190K shares. In the last one month the stock has surged over 29%. American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM)...

Fortune Brands (NYSE: FO) was upgraded by Goldman (NYSE: GS) citing potential EPS improvement driven by the Home division. Fortune Brands price target was raised to $49 from $45.

It looks like the United Kingdom, which is not run by a duopoly of parties who basically have turned into 1 ruling class actually is bowing to pressure to cut spending. Gordon Brown to UK People: "I must tell you the tough truth about the hard choices." "Labour will cut costs, cut inefficiencies,...

Talk about strange coincidences. On 9/11/01, the Dow was at 9,605.On 9/11/09, the Dow closed at 9,605. *note: the markets never opened that fateful day as the attacks were before 9:30 AM (hat tip, Bespoke)

Congrats! Another win to the "trading huddle" (allegedly) - while the last few posts have been about stocks going up for reasons they did in the old days, today's upgrade of Blackstone Group (BX) is more likely a representation of the new "financially innovative" and "fair and balanced" stock...

Russ Berrie and Company, Inc. (NYSE: RUS) announced its plan to change its corporate name to Kid Brands, Inc., subject to shareholders’ approval later this month. The new name reflects the company's transformation and growth strategies focused on the infant and juvenile products industry globally.

Year 3, Week 5 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash: 72.5% (v 65.8% last week)22 long bias: 14.1% (v 12.2% last week)9 short bias: 13.5% (v 22.0% last week) *includes long term puts 31...

I expect a very quiet day from here as the traditional early morning ramp up (+0.5%) is now in place and we can trade in a 2-4 S&P point range for the next 5 hours, until 3:30 PM shows up. NYC and Greenwich, CT quietly shall be emptying by the minute as people leave early for the long weekend...

HAL9000 seems to have switched teams. This is now a week's worth of "sell the news" rather than "all news is good news, buy it". Added some [index, i.e. SPY puts] short exposure for the day unless we reverse back up to new daily highs ... keep in mind the lemming report (employment) of the month...

Well, I was working on the ETF Rewind today, and -- as happens from time-to-time -- a new indicator just sort of jumped on into the spreadsheet. ("Good Lord!", my subscribers will no doubt write...) For those of you who have been following the good work over at CSS Analytics, this is the bounded...

WEST WARWICK, RI--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - Astro-Med, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALOT) reports net income of $585,000, equal to 8 cents per diluted share, on sales of $16,416,000 for the Second Quarter ended August 1, 2009. The Company reported net income of $1,154,000, equal to 15 cents per diluted...

Attention: Assignment Editor, City Editor, Health/Medical Editor, News Editor, Government/Political Affairs Editor VANCOUVER, BC, MEDIA ADVISORY--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2009) - The Union of BC Indian Chiefs will hold a press conference in Vancouver on the morning of Thursday, August 20th in...

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - As more organizations adopt Agile development methods to streamline IT processes and costs, they are often impeded by an inability to define clear and concise project goals and struggle to remove constraints to improve time-to-market in an difficult...