-
James Fogler Named Publisher of The Burlington Free Press (GCI)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 1:25pm | 141Gannett's (NYSE: GCI) U.S. Community Publishing division has named James Fogler president and publisher of The Burlington (VT) Free Press. Fogler has been the vice president of marketing and communications for the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle. He succeeds Brad Robertson, who was recently...
-
All in the Name: Large-Values Are a Great Buy
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 10:14am | 164(TheStreet) -- Unnerved by the erratic markets, investors have been dumping stock funds. Large-value funds have suffered especially heavy redemptions, recording $7.7 billion in outflows this year, according to Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN). The selling of large-value funds appears indiscriminate, as...
-
Top 4 Small-Cap Stocks In The Publishing-Newspapers Industry With The Highest ROE (LEE, MNI, NYT, JRN)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 4:56am | 142Below are the top small-cap publishing-newspaper stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Lee Enterprises Incorporated (NYSE: LEE) is 77.23%. LEE’s gross profit for the same period stands at $842.03 million. The trailing-twelve-...
-
It’s Not a Flight to Safety, It’s a Cash-Out
Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 6:21pm | 608The New York Times has an interesting article up about the outflows from stock mutual funds being at almost record-breaking levels in 2010 but they draw the wrong conclusion as to what is really going on. Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the...
-
Volatility Has Been Static 08-19-2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 6:10pm | 859Cusick’s Corner Barring a headline overnight (or early in tomorrow’s session), all that we really have is equity options expiration, which at this stage should not add too much volatility unless the above happens. Bond yields did rebound into the After Hours which seemed to have helped equities...
-
Calls Purchased on Gannett Inc. (GCI)
Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 10:27am | 118Shares of Gannett Inc. (NYSE: GCI) are lower on the session by 0.86%, currently trading at $12.72. The stock has bee moving largely lower over the past six months and is trading below the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. The January 2011 $17.50 call was...
-
Rally Attributed to Housing Starts 08-17-2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 6:05pm | 871Cusick’s Corner The market held up again into the After Hours. Some market watchers are attributing the rally today on improved month-over-month Housing starts numbers, but remember that June was one of the lowest in over a year, so I would not put much emphasis on those results. If the market can...
-
Bond Prices Have Stalled 08-17-2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 2:20pm | 1038Cusick’s Corner The market made a nice move into the Midday and over the last few hours trading has turned into a complete grind. Yesterday’s late day pullback seems to have washed out the weak longs, but there has been equal pressure on the shorts today. These kinds of moves are expected when...
-
Puts Purchased on Gannett Inc. (GCI)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 10:38am | 130Shares of Gannett Inc. (NYSE: GCI) are higher on the session by 1.35%, currently trading at $12.77. The stock has been trading largely lower over the past four months, off from recent highs near $19.00. Options traders are buying puts on the name today, but this may be hedge positioning on long...
-
At Least You’re Not a Banker In China
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:00am | 519Over the last year and a half, we’ve seen a number of our commercial banking friends lose their jobs or transfer to different banking institutions. Loan officers who haven’t been forced out of their positions are miserable as there are few low-risk deals for them to do and a ton...
-
Bearish MACD for Scholastic - Tale of the Tape
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 11:40am | 110Scholastic Corp. ’s (SCHL) MACD indicator has entered into bearish territory with a reading of -0.1019. The Zacks #4 Rank (“Sell”) stock dropped more than 1% to $24.10 in morning trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the year ending May 2011 dipped a penny over the past month to $2.16 per share. ...
-
Autodesk Tops Zacks Consensus - Analyst Blog
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 8:13am | 1412Software design maker, Autodesk Inc. (ADSK) reported better-than-expected second quarter 2011 results, with earnings per share of 27 cents, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 20 cents per share. Earnings per share leaped 80.0% year over year from 15 cents reported in the year-ago quarter and...
-
Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fourth Week of August
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 1:21am | 721Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...
-
Daily Journal Corporation Announces Financial Results for the Nine Months
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 12:07pm | 137Consolidated revenues of Daily Journal Corporation (NASDAQ: DJCO) were $28,437,000 and $30,315,000 for the nine months ended June 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. This decrease of $1,878,000 was primarily from declines in display advertising revenues of $528,000, classified advertising revenues of...
-
Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund and ETF Asset Flows Through July 2010 (GLD, IAU, SPY, VWO, IWM)
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 3:59pm | 213Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported estimated U.S. mutual fund and exchange-traded fund asset flows through July 2010.(...)Read the rest of Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund and ETF Asset Flows Through July 2010 (GLD, IAU, SPY,...