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Three Stocks Poised To Make Big Moves (TXN, AMZN, EBAY)
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 7:05pm | 170Earnings season will move into full swing next week and options action suggests that at least three stocks could make significant moves on their earnings release. Brian Stutland of Stutland Equities joined CNBC's Fast Money Friday evening to discuss Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), eBay (NaSDAQ: EBAY...
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Accumulation Alert: Stocks Being Bought on Heavy Volume
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 1:12pm | 198They may or may not be the biggest gainers today (though some are), but they are the stocks seeing the biggest increases in volume – buying volume to be specific. Mastercard Incorporated, Boston Beer Co. Inc., MicroStrategy Incorporated, Baidu, Inc., and Amazon.com, Inc. are all up today, with a...
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Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Opens Up Kindle Digital Text Platform To Authors Outside The U.S.
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 1:12pm | 143Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) this morning announced that it is expanding its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform worldwide, giving more authors and publishers the chance to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers around the world in the Kindle Store. Until today,...
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Barclays Raised Target On AMZN
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 11:03am | 57Barclays has raised its target price for Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) from $130 to $160. Barclays has also raised AMZN estimates, based on robust holiday sales. However, the analysts have maintained their “overweight” rating for AMZN. AMZN’s shares have risen by 0.22% to $129.40 in pre market...
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NYSE Top 10 Gainers (BGP, BZ, CBC, EK, JCI, GK, etc)
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 10:46am | 498The top ten gainers on the NYSE come from an assortment of industries ranging from book selling to holding companies to storage device manufacturers. Borders Group Inc. (NYSE: BGP) tops the list of gainers on the NYSE. Borders Group, through its subsidiaries, operates book, music and movie stores....
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NYSE Top 10 Gainers (BGP, BZ, CBC, EK, JCI, GK, etc)
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 10:44am | 498The top ten gainers on the NYSE come from an assortment of industries ranging from book selling to holding companies to storage device manufacturers. Borders Group Inc. (NYSE: BGP) tops the list of gainers on the NYSE. Borders Group, through its subsidiaries, operates book, music and movie stores....
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Netflix (NFLX) To Add Wii To Streaming Process
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 10:25am | 96Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is expected to add Nintendo’s Wii to its list of streaming destinations this spring. This is good news as Netflix moves from a DVD delivery service to a content streaming service. The value that Netflix needs to offer is the ability to stream a large number of titles to...
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High Street Expectations On NFLX
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 2:40pm | 116Analysts at Janney Capital Markets maintain their "sell" rating on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). According to Janney Capital Markets, the market expectations for NFLX are higher than the real value of NFLX’s stock, given the significant competitive pressure the company faces and the doubts regarding the...
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Bill Miller Favors JPMorgan (JPM), IBM
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:05pm | 159Bill Miller, renowned investor and CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management, shared his investment outlook with CNBC. Bill Miller has the distinction of beating S&P 500 for 15 straight years. He said that even in the current economic scenario, ‘there are bargains in plain sight’. He favored IBM (...
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Legg Mason's Bill Miller Names Names (note he's beat the S&P 500 consistently for years)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 1:55pm | 146Want to know what Bill Miller, chairman, chief investment officer and portfolio manager at Legg Mason Capital Management, likes right now? Would it change anything if you knew he had managed to beat the S&P 500 for 15 years running with his fund? It should. Miller's Recommendations: IBM (NYSE:...
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YHOO, GOOG, MSFT, AMZN May Be The Next Targets For Hackers
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 10:34am | 246It is time for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to sit back and take note. With China’s largest search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) taken hostage by hackers, it is time to take stock of net security issues. Hackers taking BIDU and redirecting its traffic to...
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Portfolio Update
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 11:47pm | 286I consider my start to this point in the new year to be a pretty good one. I'm only 50% vested and have been able to match the market's returns, which means any kind of pullback I am going to be able to add 2 or 3 new positions which I am very excited about. OSG continues to rocket upwards on...
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Portfolio Update
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:47pm | 285I consider my start to this point in the new year to be a pretty good one. I'm only 50% vested and have been able to match the market's returns, which means any kind of pullback I am going to be able to add 2 or 3 new positions which I am very excited about. OSG continues to rocket upwards on...
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U.S. Equity Markets Mixed Today
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 4:36pm | 138The Dow Jones Industrial Average is leading the widely watched U.S. equity indexes today, notching a 45 point gain going into the last hour of trading. The S&P 500 is also higher and could continue its perfect streak of positive days in 2010 if it finishes up the day in the green. The Nasdaq...
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3D TV To Boost Adult Entertainment Content According To Barron's (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN)
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:10am | 123According to Barron's, the overlap of the Consumer Electronics Show (which saw the absence of technology titans like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)) and the annual adult-entertainment convention may be more than just a coincidence. Three dimensional...